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Your Path to Enterprise Data Governance & Stewardship

From policy to practice, TDWI equips data governance professionals with the tools and training to protect, build trust in, optimize, and operationalize enterprise data.

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The AI-Powered Enterprise Needs More Data Heroes

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Data Governance Pros & Stewards

Guardians of data integrity, governance professionals and stewards ensure that data remains accurate, compliant, and trusted across the enterprise. Their work ensures that enterprise analytics and AI initiatives are built on a foundation of reliable, governed data.

Key Focus:

  • Safeguard data integrity, quality, and compliance
  • Build and enforce governance frameworks to reduce regulatory risk
  • Champion data as a business asset and drive organizational adoption
  • Enable trusted, secure data access across the enterprise
  • Measure impact through KPIs such as quality, compliance, and ROI

Key Challenges:

  • Getting buy-in and implementing automated and augmented data governance tools
  • Managing data governance across diverse platforms
  • Metadata management
  • Managing data quality
  • Compliance risks
  • Cross-departmental enforcement

Why It Matters: The Governance Gap

As AI adoption accelerates, governance maturity is not keeping pace. Without strong frameworks, organizations risk compliance failures, poor data quality, and AI bias. Governance professionals play a critical role in closing this gap.

62/100

Average data governance maturity score, showing most organizations are only mid-way in their journey.

<20%

Have a solid governance program with defined policies and processes in place.

43%

Are satisfied with the quality of unstructured data, compared to 68% for structured data.

Only 11%

Have tools in place to mitigate AI-related risks such as bias, privacy, and data quality.

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On-Demand Training for Data Governance Pros & Stewards

Learn at Your Pace. Curated for Maximum Impact

The TDWI Pathfinder: Data Governance & Stewardship Pro Learning Path is a curated set of on-demand courses for professionals ensuring trusted, explainable, and compliant data across the enterprise.

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The TDWI Pathfinder: Data Governance & Stewardship Pro gives you access to on-demand training:

  • TDWI Data Governance Fundamentals
  • TDWI Data Quality Management
  • TDWI Data Privacy and Protection
  • Data Catalogs – Finally a Mechanism to Tame Chaos!
  • Governance and Compliance in the Age of AI & Self-Service
  • Modernizing Master Data Management

Make Governance Your Strategic Advantage

Access the full suite of research, events, and learning paths to future-proof your governance practice. TDWI helps you govern with purpose and precision.

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