Data Diplomacy: Keeping Peace and Avoiding Data Governance Bureaucracy
About this ebook
“The time has come for Data Diplomacy. Håkan Edvinsson describes DD as the way to engage everybody as data workers and to assist them with the data responsibilities associated with their business functions. The concept of Non-Coercive Data Governance as a core tenet of Data Diplomacy echoes from the practical nature of Non-Invasive Data Governance. Read this book and consider how diplomacy will make sense in your organization.”
Robert S. Seiner, President & Principal, KIK Consulting/TDAN.com
Learn the diplomacy techniques and approach to align and unite the organization when facing challenges and taking on bold initiatives. Use a “getting things right from start” strategy for having the data correct enough to meet business needs. Become adept at facilitating business representatives to take responsibility to determine what the data should look like, what it should be called, and how it is connected.
"This is a refreshing approach to Data Governance. If you feel stuck, it might be time to add a touch of diplomacy in your game..."
Karima Makrof, Data Governance Manager at Volvo Cars
This book is primarily intended for CIO’s, CDO’s, chief architects, data strategists, data governance leads, and data architects. It is for anyone who is struggling with data quality, data accountability, and the concept of data as a valuable asset. It is for those who seek a second generation of data governance, when the first generation was riddled by formality or just did not take off. The book is written for those who are in the frontline of the quest for data improvement, and covers these four topics:
Chapter 1 introduces the concept of data diplomacy and illustrates it through a set of real-life cases where diplomacy played a crucial part.
Chapter 2 covers the four arenas for performing diplomatic data governance and describes the activities that go on in each arena.
Chapter 3 details the minimum set of roles that are needed when instituting data governance using a diplomatic approach.
Chapter 4 is your toolbox as the data diplomat, containing various tips and techniques including the “Five Running Guys”.
About the author
Born in Sweden (1962) where he lived most his life, apart from a period in the Bay Area in the eighties, he is a practitioner and trainer within data governance and data architecture. As a trainer, he looked for suitable literature for the enterprise architecture certification programs in Northern Europe and ended up writing the handbook himself he was searching for. He has written two titles about enterprise architecture and a book about business data modeling. He is a contributing author of the second edition of the DAMA Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBOK2). He is currently the CTO of Informed Decisions Consulting and a frequent speaker at data management conferences worldwide.
