Dork Cast 11 - Governed Mayhem
Mayhem seems to be perhaps the most appropriate word to describe the environment in which many organizations work with their data. Nobody likes it. Nobody trusts. But mention the word Governance to them, and experience has told them that governance is a bad word.
In this episode I speak with Laura Madsen who is the CEO and SVP of Data Strategy for Moxy Analytics. Her experience in the field of data governance is not only the stuff she could write a book about, she has. Her book "Disrupting Data Goverancen - A Call to Action" documents some industry challenging concepts.
We talk about:
HIPAA, GDPR, Sox and the ramifications and how to avoid over reacting
How to do a Risk Assessment
The fact that many governance models fail because they are focused on controlling the data, rather than enabling the people that need to use it
That people who need to use data, don't care about policies and procedures
That you need to differentiate who is responsibile for data governance and those that are accountable for data governance
Think we can't have fun at the same time as dealing with these weighty topics? Think again.