The institution implements preventive measures to foster the quality of the master data, especially by communicating data quality requirements to development teams and to master data operations and personnel responsible for master data-related tasks.
Guideline code
ICT_05800
Mechanism
Mechanism
- The Master Data Stewardship Council should:
- Identify relevant risks due to poor levels of data quality;
- Identify root causes of poor levels of data quality and the related problems;
- Evaluate the possible impact of the risks and prioritize based on the possible impact.
- The Master Data Stewardship Council and the ICT unit should implement preventive measures fostering the consistency of master data, including:
- Preventing poor-quality and non-validated data from being inserted in the master data system, especially when exchanging data with other organizations;
- Maximizing the use of already validated data, especially in data entry software applications;
- Systematically monitoring the quality of master data.
- Software applications performing operations on the master data should include components to carry out preventive quality controls.
Structure
Structure
- The Master Data Governance Committee should institutionalize practices related to the implementation of the preventive measures to foster the quality of the master data.
- The Master Data Stewardship Council should:
- Identify the causes of relevant problems related to poor data quality in master data and assess the risks of such problems;
- Define preventive actions to reduce poor data quality problems, focusing on their root causes.
- The preventive measures to foster the quality of the master data should follow the institutional data management frameworks recommended in Section A.5, Data and Information Management, as well as international practices defined in the DAMA DMBOK.
Title HTML
Guideline 44. Preventive measures to foster the quality of master data
Type
Guideline_1
Weight
61