WashU’s Office of Data Governance (ODG) supports a robust, innovative, shared decision-making framework by leveraging our people, processes and technology to effectively and properly manage our data as a strategic asset.
Our Strategic Vision
- We will strive for excellence in data accuracy, data consistency, and data integrity through stewardship, enabling better decisions through data confidence.
- We will hold data policies, procedures, standards, intake processes and promote best practices to enhance collaboration and cohesiveness in delivering best in class institutional data.
- We will focus with great intentionality towards foundational governance program pillars to deliver profound business value in our data artifacts across the institution.
- We will consistently monitor and measure the outputs of our program through key metrics/KPI’s, and most importantly the health of our data that runs our institutional processes.
- We will leverage executive sponsorship, the broader data stewardship structure and the data governance team to span across our 11 data domains and lead by example to achieve a sustainable data and analytical culture.
Our Guiding Principles
- Stewardship & Inclusivity
- Data Accessibility
- Data Usage
- Data Quality & Controls
- Data Security & Privacy
- Data Transparency
- Data Responsibility & Accountability
- Change Adoption
- Partnership & Collaboration
Our Collibra Pillars
Data Governance at WashU is a shared responsibility between our people, our processes and our business functions. Data Governance is a set of procedures and functionalities to manage availability, usability, integrity and security of data across WashU.
Collibra is the data intelligence application supporting our data stewardship community. Enabling the data governance team to streamline and organizing responsibilities and workflows for our data stewards, data coordinators & data partners. WashU utilizes Collibra as the technology platform supporting our people and processes within data governance, and the foundational piece providing a platform for communication, action, and data enablement.
Our Data Governance Framework
