Data Governance for Law Firms
Data Governance for Law Firms
Articles about Data Governance
What is a communications plan? A communications plan is a tool that provides a way to structure communication and engagement planning to: Who needs to create a communications plan? Every data governance centre of excellence should create a communication plan to support its data governance foundation roadmap, data strategy, and business-as-usual activities. This is usually …
Finding the right person to be a successful Data Governance Lead within your firm needn’t be a difficult or daunting task. In this article, I show you how to pick someone who will help lead your Data Governance initiative to success. How does the Data Governance Lead fit into the Data Governance Centre of Excellence? …
What is a gap analysis? A gap analysis assesses the differences between an organisation’s actual and expected (or desired) performance. The term “gap” refers to the space between “where you are” – the present state, and “where you want to be” – the target or future state. Some consultants refer to a gap analysis as …
This is an interesting and challenging question which frequently comes up in conversations with senior law firm stakeholders. The reason for the question is sound. These stakeholders have become aware that data (whatever that means to them) isn’t working for the Firm (i.e. isn’t meeting Partner or operational expectations). Law firms are essentially people businesses, …
The space between roadmap creation and execution Roadmaps are the output of a strategic planning process. Execution is getting on and doing it. The less talked about but critically important step is what happens in between these two stages. Starting an implementation is where a data governance lead can become overwhelmed. Senior stakeholders either underestimate …
Introduction One of the Law Firms we worked with to develop a Data Governance Roadmap was in a great position to deliver it because we had helped them identify a data governance lead from the internal stakeholders we interviewed. All the stakeholders were excited that she was willing and able to take on the role. …
Roles, accountabilities, and responsibilities are the “who and how” that form your Data Governance Framework. You know that you need people to be accountable and responsible for the critical data you identify, but what does that mean? It means codifying, improving, and adding data management activities, accountabilities, and responsibilities to the people involved in managing …
Data as technical debt is a problem What is technical debt? Technical debt is the list of activities (and the implied costs associated with remediating them) that project managers descope from an IT project. It is a term that was initially used to refer to software development, but the concept has been expanded to include …
This article will share the exact process we recently implemented for one of our Law Firm clients looking to achieve operational data governance. This case study typifies the key steps, deliverables, and obstacles you’ll need to address when launching your initiative. The Background What do we do with the Roadmap now? After helping a Law …
You can read my thoughts on how data governance can support firms in cultivating deeper data reporting in the February issue of Briefing. With law firms increasingly keen to capitalise on the pandemic-induced acceptance of new ways of doing things, a more mature data strategy is within reach – but there are many hurdles yet …