Data Stewardship is an approach to data management that focuses on responsibility for its quality, consistency, availability, and proper use within an organization. A data steward, an individual or team, plays a key role in ensuring that data is managed according to established principles and standards.
Data Stewardship is based on several key assumptions:
- defining responsibility for specific data areas,
- ensuring data quality and consistency,
- adhering to established data management standards and principles,
- supporting the proper use of data by users,
- collaboration between business and technology teams.
Data Stewardship is an important element of Data Governance and helps translate data management principles into the organization’s daily operations. With clearly defined responsibilities, companies can reduce errors, improve information quality, and increase trust in the data used in analyses and business processes.