These include knowing your data, maintaining your data, centralizing your data and determining your organization’s data stewardship maturity curve. If your organization doesn’t have a data steward, there are ways product stewards can foster the principles of data stewardship within their organizations to make sure the data in their systems is accessible, accurate, useable and of high quality. However, many organizations don’t have data stewards. Product stewards are the consumers of the data that data stewards maintain. Data stewards play a key role in validating that the data in an organization’s systems is accurate, current and usable. What is data stewardship?ĭata stewardship is the means by which an organization ensures good data hygiene and accessibility in its systems. Data stewardship is key to supporting these processes and ensuring data quality and accessibility as well as regulatory compliance.īelow, we discuss the data stewardship concepts product stewards should know to support their organization’s product stewardship goals and needs: 1.
Whether you’re authoring safety data sheets (SDSs), pulling material reports or managing container inventory quantities, you need to trust your data.
As a product steward, you know the importance of having accurate data in your systems.