HeyJaredThe Data Governance Playbook
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The Data Adoption Business Case Calculator (opens the original)
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Hello 😀Budget season. Someone on your team gets asked to justify the data governance line, and comes back with “improve data quality” and “single source of truth.” Finance hears a cost centre describing itself, and you start shaking 😅In the last survey, 40% named proving value and ROI as the biggest blocker. So this week I’m giving you the calculator I use with clients !<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rQz7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progress
The State of Data Governance 2026 (opens the original)
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Hello 😃This year I decided to launch a survey of 16 questions to assess the state of Data Governance. It got 111 anonymous responses, from July to August 26, and was run through my Substack and LinkedIn.What you must remember from the results : you’re not late, everyone is still early ! The gap between how the field talks and where it actually is is the real story of 2026 : 50% have no formal governance or are just getting started 🚀Nice, who answered?60% have managers / leads and C-level roles,
5 exercises to roll out your Data Governance Operating Model (opens the original)
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Hello 😃End of July, calendars are lighter, meetings have almost disappeared. We breath. People have a better mood and are happy to do a bit of deep work. That makes it the best window of the year to actually roll out your operating model.So here are 5 exercises for this summer, that I’ve tested several times with my customers. Most of them require workshops you run with your owners and stewards, not solo desk work. Because that’s the whole point : avoid a slides-only governance 😅<a class="image-
Your Data Stewards waste 30% of their time on this (opens the original)
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Hello 😃Recently I’ve talked a lot about the semantic layer. But I’ve realized that it’s actually hard to imagine what it is, where it sits in your existing stack, which impacts it will have on your Data Stewards…<img a
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