Navigating the Labyrinth: An Executive Guide to Data Management
If you are leading an organization or if you need to communicate with leaders about data management, Navigating the Labyrinth is your guide.
Chapter 1: The Importance of Managing Data
Chapter 2: Data Management Challenges
Chapter 3: DAMA’s Data Management Principles
Chapter 4: Data Ethics
Chapter 5: Data Governance
Chapter 6: Planning and Design in Data Lifecycle Management
Chapter 7: Enabling and Maintaining Data
Chapter 8: Using and Enhancing Data
Chapter 9: Data Protection, Privacy, Security, and Risk Management
Chapter 10: Metadata Management
Chapter 11: Data Quality Management
Chapter 12: What to do Now
Organizations that want to get value from their data need to manage that data well. But to most executives, data management seems obscure, complicated, and highly technical. You don’t have time to learn all the detail or cut through the hype. Navigating the Labyrinth helps you get there. Based on best practices from DAMA’s Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBOK2), it explains the fundamentals and says why they are important. It focuses your attention on what you need to know to help your organization build trust in and get value out of its data.
DAMA International is a not-for-profit, vendor-independent association of technical and business professionals dedicated to advancing concepts and practices related to managing data and information in support of business strategy. With chapters throughout the world, DAMA International supports an empowered global community of information professionals by focusing on our five pillars: Membership; Certification and Education; Publications and Research; Chapters and Partnerships. DAMA International encourages best practice behavior through a network of connected individuals and organizations who share ideas, trends, problems, and solutions and who look to DAMA as the trusted, collaborative central resource for all things data. Visit dama.org to learn more.