TY  - JOUR
T1  - Data Governance for Businesses: Challenges, Recommendations, and Critical Success Factors
AU  - Ateş, Vildan
AU  - Garip, Atacan
PY  - 2025
DA  - June
Y2  - 2025
DO  - 10.26650/acin.1540759
JF  - Acta Infologica
JO  - ACIN
PB  - Istanbul University
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2602-3563
SP  - 339
EP  - 358
VL  - 9
IS  - 1
LA  - en
AB  - Data governance is the set of roles, processes, policies, and tools that ensure data quality throughout its lifecycle and appropriate usage across an organization. Data governance (DG) empowers users to locate, prepare, utilize, and disseminate dependable datasets independently. This study aims to reveal the challenges that businesses may encounter in the data governance process, propose recommendations, and highlight the critical success factors (CSFs) for data governance. The study's method is qualitative research. Interviews were conducted with 12 experienced volunteer participants in data governance. The data collected from the interviews were analyzed using descriptive and content analysis. The study revealed that the main challenges encountered were a lack of understanding of the impact of the data governance process on other business processes, the complexity of the process, and the role of the process manager. The study revealed that these challenges can be mitigated with effective communication, a clear demonstration of the contribution of the data governance process to the business, and leadership support. Furthermore, the study identified 20 critical success factors for DG success. These CSFs are classified into four categories: organization, people, data and technology, and regulations. As a result of the study, suggestions for businesses, managers, and individuals regarding data governance are presented.
KW  - Data Governance
KW  - Data Governance Challenges
KW  - Recommendations for Data Governance
KW  - Data Gover nance Success’ Critical Success Factors
KW  - Qualitative Research Method
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