{"id":252,"date":"2020-05-18T10:35:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T14:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierracreekconsulting.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2020-05-18T10:46:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T14:46:40","slug":"covid-19-global-pandemic-lessons-learned-for-data-governance-or-data-strategy-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sierracreekconsulting.com\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Global Pandemic Lessons Learned for Data Governance or Data Strategy Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The global pandemic has created many new challenges for organizations and data governance leaders (including CDO&#8217;s).&nbsp; Most data leaders understand a high percentage of data related issues are due to internal causes (processes and people).&nbsp; With so many companies moving towards working remote and the need for digital transformation there are now additional challenges related to governing data.&nbsp; &nbsp;Here are a few lessons from the current global pandemic to consider for your data governance or data programs.<br><strong>1.&nbsp; Reactive vs Proactive.<\/strong>&nbsp; Investments in being prepared is vitally important.&nbsp; The ability to react is also important, but having a plan and strategy in advance can potentially save money and\/or save your company.&nbsp; The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many organizations to be data driven on the fly.&nbsp; Having a plan or digital transformation strategy up front can ensure a greater chance of survival and success moving forward.<br><strong>2.&nbsp; Enterprise vs local data governance<\/strong>.&nbsp; During the pandemic there were shortages of ventilators across the United States which resulted in bidding wars.&nbsp; States requested the federal government to have a national stockpile and to manage distribution to reduce the conflict.&nbsp; Data management challenges can be similar.&nbsp; An Enterprise Data Governance program to focus on the needs of all stakeholders for the benefit of the company as a whole is beneficial.&nbsp; Local data governance programs can sometimes result in sub-optimization, resulting in organizational conflict.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><strong>3.&nbsp; Measurements<\/strong>.&nbsp; One of the biggest issues with the COVID-19 pandemic has been related to testing for better understanding of the virus and what action to take.&nbsp; Testing issues include testing for COVID, as well as testing for the anti-bodies.&nbsp; Measurements are also critical for data programs.&nbsp; Metrics allow data leaders to understand what is happening in the data environment.&nbsp; Ensuring the right measures are in place to drive the right behaviors are also important.&nbsp; &nbsp;<br><strong><em>Contact Sierra Creek Consulting to help review and improve your data programs in these ever changing data environments.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The global pandemic has created many new challenges for organizations and data governance leaders (including CDO&#8217;s).&nbsp; Most data leaders understand a high percentage of data related issues are due to internal causes (processes and people).&nbsp; With so many companies moving towards working remote and the need for digital transformation there are now additional challenges related [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[10,14,13,11,12,9],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-strategy","tag-cdo","tag-covid","tag-data","tag-governance","tag-metrics","tag-strategy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.sierracreekconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Clouds-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracreekconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracreekconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracreekconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracreekconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracreekconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracreekconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracreekconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracreekconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracreekconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracreekconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracreekconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}