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Season 1| Episode 2| Quarter 2,2022

Sandi Perillo- Simmons on designing your Data Strategy leveraging Data Governance and Data Management principles

Episode summary:

In this episode, the host Nupur Gandhi is joined by a data strategist and data management expert, Sandi Perillo- Simmons.

Sandi gets candid about her career journey in data management and provides practical tidbits for building data governance ground up in any organization. She shares her broad experiences having worked in data governance roles at various capacities in a decentralized as well as centralized business function and explains not just 'the how' but especially 'The Why' of Data Strategy and Data Governance. She simplifies data cataloging and shares its critical role in data management. She brings her years of knowledge and experience in various data organizations to pinpoint why data standards need to be relevant.

She shares the rewarding experience working for industry organizations and underscores importance of cultivating relationships and networking to get to meet and learn from various other data enthusiasts. She provides invaluable tips and insights on how to enrich your data career while balancing with the demands and changes in a forever evolving data landscape.

Key Takeaways:

• You can’t try to solve every data problem so make some tough decisions on what you can and can’t do. This is where the strategy and roadmap comes into play. You need to organize the work and often stretch it out over a 3-5 year plan 
• A smart and efficient way of keeping up with the changing data landscape is to understand organization’s business strategy along with constant participation and learning – with people within your organization and outside of your organization
• For every Data management discipline that you include as part of your data strategy, you need rules and standards for how to go about performing these data management capabilities.
• Data Governance will get engrained when it is backed up with a leadership support, a data-governance driven mindset and when one customizes the governance roadmap based on the company's maturity.
• Data Cataloging is much like Yelp and is the gold standard of metadata management – making metadata accessible and informative to non-technical data users.
• Data Cataloging can help with tracking and scaling data lineage, remove manual aspects of Metadata management and shrink timeframe of creating data  

More about the guest, Sandi Perillo-Simons:

Sandi is a seasoned veteran in multiple data management disciplines such as data strategy, data governance and stewardship, data quality, metadata management, and data security/access. Sandi’s data management knowledge has helped drive enterprise data initiatives and data asset assessment programs providing tangible business value and enabling operational efficiencies. Sandi is currently a member of the IDMA Board of Directors, President of DAMA New England and holds the CIDM, CDMP, and ACE designations from IDMA, DAMA, and ACORD respectively.

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