Glossary

Data governance

The set of decisions, roles and controls that determine who can do what with which data, and who is accountable when it goes wrong. It is not a compliance project you finish once.

What it covers

In the Rodan Data Governance Toolkit we score six domains: ownership, inventory, quality, access, lifecycle and privacy. Together they answer one question: can we lawfully use and trust this data?

Good governance enables trustworthy reporting, defensible AI adoption, faster deals and regulatory resilience. Weak governance shows up as metric drift, vendor sprawl and AI deployed before classification.

What it is not

It is not buying a catalogue tool, running a one-off audit or appointing a committee that cannot stop non-compliant projects. Governance only counts when it changes behaviour.

Score yourself

Take the governance maturity self-check (~30 min, runs in your browser) or browse the open toolkit with sector overlays and working templates.

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