Data Governance and Compliance

This book sets the stage of the evolution of corporate governance, laws and regulations, other forms of governance, and the interaction between data governance and other corporate governance sub-disciplines. Given the continuously evolving and complex regulatory landscape and the growing number of laws and regulations, compliance is a widely discussed issue in the field of data. This book considers the cost of non-compliance bringing in examples from different industries of instances in which companies failed to comply with rules, regulations, and other legal obligations, and goes on to explain how data governance helps in avoiding such pitfalls.
The first in a three-volume series on data governance, this book does not assume any prior or specialist knowledge in data governance and will be highly beneficial for IT, management and law students, academics, information management and business professionals, and researchers to enhancetheir knowledge and get guidance in managing their own data governance projects from a governance and compliance perspective.

Discusses how data governance ties together with corporate governance and its other sub-disciplines (e.g., HR, Finance, IT, Risk) Highlights all the data management functions and initiatives in a nutshell, while focusing on its relationships and interactions with data governance Goes further by discusses the costs of non-compliance, challenges with data and regulations, and data characteristics and activities in relation to compliance Includes perspectives of practitioners, industry leaders, researchers, and professors, via interviews conducted by the author

Autorentext

Rupa Mahanti is a Business and Information Management consultant with extensive and diversified consulting experience in different solution environments, industry sectors, and geographies (United States, United Kingdom, India, and Australia).She has expertise in different information management disciplines, business process improvement, regulatory reporting, and more. Her research interests include quality management, information management, software engineering, empirical study, environmental management, simulation and modeling and more. With a work experience that spans industry, academics, and research, Rupa has guided a doctoral dissertation, published a large number of research articles, and is the author of the books-Data Quality: Dimensions, Measurement, Strategy, Management and Governance, and Thoughts - A Collection of Inspirational Quotes. She is an Associate Editor with the journal Software Quality Professional and a reviewer for several international journals.

Klappentext

This book sets the stage of the evolution of corporate governance, laws and regulations, other forms of governance, and the interaction between data governance and other corporate governance sub-disciplines. Given the continuously evolving and complex regulatory landscape and the growing number of laws and regulations, compliance is a widely discussed issue in the field of data. This book considers the cost of non-compliance bringing in examples from different industries of instances in which companies failed to comply with rules, regulations, and other legal obligations, and goes on to explain how data governance helps in avoiding such pitfalls. The first in a three-volume series on data governance, this book does not assume any prior or specialist knowledge in data governance and will be highly beneficial for IT, management and law students, academics, information management and business professionals, and researchers to enhancetheir knowledge and get guidance in managing their own data governance projects from a governance and compliance perspective.

Inhalt

Basics of Governance.- History and Evolution.- Data Governance and Compliance.