Welcome to the second edition of this data governance (DG) book. Frankly, data books rarely get a second edition. But DG is not only “hot,” it is required. When the first edition came out, DG was a misunderstood capability and few people knew anything about standing up a sustainable DG program. Now,
if you examine any major corporate or organization initiative and you will find DG. It most likely is not
called governance. Some sort of data oversight is built into projects, or a business area. But it is DG.