It is two weeks since you took over as the Chief Data Executive at a start-up company that has experienced incredible growth in its three years of existence. During your short tenure at the company, you have discovered that the company has no defined data management function. It has grown from less than 5 employees to its present size of 1001 employees located in offices across 105 countries. Its digital portals are used by several million customers, generating lots of data. The company has not contracted out its IT infrastructure and data repositories to any other company, rather it manages all of its data in-house.

Question #1 MAXIMUM 350 words. Make a case for a reasonable MASTER DATA MANAGEMENT PROGRAM (or systems) for the firm:

outlining its definition and role within a firm-wide data management initiative;

its (broad-brush) constituent pieces, based on the kinds of data that you envision will be, or ought to be, included in the system;

fundamental strategic or business-level requirements (in broad terms);

operational considerations; and

anticipated measurable (broad-brush) contributions to overall organizational data management

Question #2 MAXIMUM 350 words. Make a case for comprehensive DATA GOVERNANCE program for the firm.

clearly defining data governance;

explains the role and place of data governance within the organizations data management program;

identifying and describes the building blocks or constituent parts of an effective data governance program;

Explaining how the firm can/should execute the data governance program; and

Measurable contributions to of the program overall organizational data management.