Data Governance

This book provides business managers, IT professionals, and students with an integrated approach to designing, developing, and sustaining an effective data governance strategy. Focusing on the organizational, operational, and strategic aspects of data governance, it addresses the issue of how to leverage, derive, and sustain value from informational assets that are housed in the IT infrastructure. It provides an overall understanding of data governance, addressing the burning issue of aligning data assets to both IT assets and organizational strategic goals in order to leverage potential value in data assets.

Author Biography

Neera Bhansali, PhD, has more than 20 years of experience in information technology with an emphasis on strategic data warehousing. She is executive director of Biomedical Informatics at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. In Dr. Bhansali’s previous roles, she was head of informatics at CTNeT, the Statewide Clinical Trials Network of Texas, and held leadership positions, including director of Data Quality and Standards at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida.

Dr. Bhansali is the author of Strategic Data Warehousing: Alignment to Business (CRC Press, 2009). She earned a doctorate in business and a master’s in business (information technology), both from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.