There are three main purposes of data governance: To recognize all governing rules and regulations, to continuously protect the interests of data stakeholders and to intercede and settle any issues as a result of noncompliance to the rules and regulations. These purposes of data governance reflect those most affected by the process, specifically the data stakeholders and other participants.
To understand data governance we need to go back to high school government class because data governance operates somewhat like a bicameral government, with three separate branches. The executive, legislative and judicial branches all have their own responsibilities, purposes and checks and balances. The legislative branch makes, passes and changes laws, the judicial branch interprets and clarifies these laws with respect to specific issues and the executive branch makes sure these laws are adhered to.
Data governance also has rules, or laws that must be followed. The data stakeholders are like the citizens in a bicameral government; they have rights, privileges and obligations. Data stakeholders should be aware of the rules governing their movements and activities when traveling to different data domains. They are held accountable and can be sanctioned for their actions according to the rules set by the data governance office.
Those users in the lower levels have missions specifically for their uses of the data; only the data needed to carry out their specific task is accessible. These specific tasks or missions must, however, still be in accordance with or in response to the three general missions of data governance.
Data governance should have a clear, understandable vision as well as the three general missions. A data governance program should have a vision that will inspire data stakeholders to set their own data related goals. This will create a data governance program that will run smoothly and benefit all levels of an organization.
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