#202 Making Data Governance Fun with Tiankai Feng, Data Strategy & Data Governance Lead at ThoughtWorks

Countless companies invest in their data quality, but often, the effort from their investment is not fully realized in the output. It seems like, despite the critical importance of data quality, data governance might be suffering from a branding issue. Data governance is sometimes looked at as the data police, but this is far from the truth. So, how can we change perspectives and introduce fun into data governance?

Tiankai Feng is a Principal Data Consultant and Data Strategy & Data Governance Lead at Thoughtworks, He also works part-time as the Head of Marketing at DAMA Germany. Tiankai has had many data hats in his career—marketing data analyst, data product owner, analytics capability lead, and data governance leader for the last few years. He has found a passion for the human side of data—how to collaborate, coordinate, and communicate around data. TIankai often uses his music and humor to make data more approachable and fun.

In the episode, Adel and Tiankai explore the importance of data governance in data-driven organizations, the challenges of data governance, how to define success criteria and measure the ROI of governance initiatives, non-invasive and creative approaches to data governance, the implications of generative AI on data governance, regulatory considerations, organizational culture and much more. 

Links Mentioned in the Show:

• Tiankai’s YouTube Channel
• Data Governance Fundamentals Cheat Sheet
• [Webinar] Unpacking the Fun in Data Governance: The Key to Scaling Data Quality
• [Course] Data Governance Concepts
• Rewatch sessions from RADAR: The Analytics Edition

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