Data Governance from a Business Perspective: How to Use It Without Making Things Worse

Most data governance initiatives don’t fail loudly.
They fail quietly—by absorbing work that doesn’t belong to them.

This book challenges a common confusion: governance is not data management. It does not fix data. It defines who decides, who is accountable, and where problems belong.

Instead of frameworks and maturity models, you will find recurring organizational patterns, boundary-setting principles, and short narrative fragments that reveal how governance drifts—and how it can hold.

The objective is modest and demanding at the same time:
do less damage.

If governance is visible everywhere, it is probably failing.
If it is working, you may barely notice it.

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Pierluigi Modesti is a process-centric data governance leader with experience in complex and regulated organizations. His work focuses on preventing structural drift rather than expanding control.