| Item # | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Organizational Awareness | Awareness Describes the level of mutual responsibility between Business and IT, and recognition of the fiduciary responsibility to govern data at different levels of management. |
| 3 | Policy | Policy is the written articulation of desired organizational behavior. |
| 2 | Stewardship | Stewardship is a quality control discipline designed to ensure custodial care of data for both asset enhancement, risk mitigation, and organizational control. |
| 4 | Value Creation | The process by which data assets are qualified and quantified to enable the business to maximize the value created by data assets. |
| 5 | Data Risk Management | The methodology by which data risks are identified, qualified, quantified, avoided, accepted, mitigated, or transferred out. |
| 6 | Security / Privacy / Compliance | Describes the policies, practices and controls used by an organization to mitigate risk and protect data assets. |
| 7 | Data Architecture | The architectural design of structured and unstructured data systems and applications that enable data availability and distribution to appropriate users. |
| 8 | Data Quality | Methods to measure, improve, and certify the quality and integrity of production, test, and archival data. |
| 9 | Data Classification / Metadata | The methods and tools used to create common semantic definitions for business and IT terms, data models, types, and repositories. Metadata that bridge human and computer understanding. |
| 10 | Information Lifecycle Management | A systemic policy-based approach to information collection, use, retention, and deletion. |
| 11 | Audit & Reporting | The organizational processes for monitoring and measuring the Data value, risks, and efficacy of Governance. |
