Welcome to 8 Governed Gates - UK Data Governance Specialists
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
- Marcus Aurelius

Are your Data management initiatives being impacted by: 

Noise

Opinion

Finger Pointing

Fact
"Noise" on any project leads to a blame culture. Statements that are not true or accurate only exist to create a culture that will damage any project,
Everyone always has a “better” idea.
Set your roles and responsibilities early in the project. Not everyone is the data or solution architect.
Data are the last camel in the long train in a project and the "buck" regularly stops with the team doing the work when a project is delayed.
Artefacts and frameworks supply clear facts and auditability to remove the “noise” and assign ownership and responsibility



Data Governance



​Data Quality
Good Data Governance will underpin confidence in your data assets, on which you make decisions to deliver sustainable profitable growth.
Data Governance has a significant impact across all business operations, from the impact of targeting new customers to future proposition development 
The right Data Governance processes are critical to ensuring both the coordination and delivery of efficient, enterprise-wide data management.
To enable this, a cultural change is required to ensure the support of business ownership for data, supported by a centre of excellence, that will deliver efficiencies across your strategic programmes and business as usual activities 
Data Governance through the 8 Gates framework approach will ensure all the foundational activities for good data governance are in place for your business.
The following will be embedded within your business:
  • Data Ownership
  • Roles
  • Definitions
  • Risk & Controls
  • Monitoring & Improvement activities

Data Migration

In today’s data centric world, failure to manage data as a critical asset will undermine your capability to grow and understand the true value of your enterprise.
Data is the lifeblood of any business, failure to ensure it continues to flow as seamlessly as it did prior to any transformation is a critical failure, harming both business confidence and business process.
Delivering successful outcomes from ​any data migration is critical and the 8 Gates approach to Data Migration seeks to mitigate risk of failure by:
  • Ensuring Data Owners are engaged throughout the process
  • The whole approach is underpinned with solid industry practices
  • Essential Data Governance
  • Coaching and enablement of your teams
The 8 Gates approach to Data Quality aligns with the roles and responsibilities as defined by the Data Governance Framework.

With an aim to:
  • Prioritise and focus data quality issues as you cannot address all immediately
  • Identify key problem areas which most hurt your business currently and stand in the way of strategic ambitions
  • Identify and baseline Key Data Entities, set KPIs and measures, and initiate improvement actions / projects
  • Ensure that data management is a business and not a pure IT challenge.
  • Ensure gains are sustained through Data Governance

By supporting managed, repeatable processes for the compliance of data quality, the 8 Gates approach provides a solid foundation for enterprise data quality.
By combining good data management practices with your chosen technology platforms, your business will be able to fully incorporate Data Quality into the enterprise architecture.

Document Management

Document and content management is about the controls, capture, storage, access and use of data and information stored outside of a relational database. The core focus is the integrity of data and information and the access to documents and other unstructured or semi-
structured information​.
The strategic drivers are to enable better, faster proactive business decisions where the documentation has a direct relationship with structured data.
The 8 Gates approach to document and content management delivers a set of document management methodologies in which a continuous process of analysis, assessment, monitoring and resolution will lead to an overall improvement in the quality of data assets across the enterprise. This approach is based around three fundamental principles:
  • Ensuring effective and efficient retrieval of documents
  • Ensuring integration capabilities between structured and unstructured data
  • Complying with legal obligations and customer expectations
In a world full of advice and best practice – look to the industry experts. They are there for a reason having done this many times before.

All the Tools You Need to Succeed

Leaning on the best practice from existing frameworks and our own experiences to create an approach we believe empowers businesses to continue succeeding long after we have left the building.

​Contact us today about Data Governance training, coaching, or implementation.
Good Data Management underpins business decisions, as it provides confidence in data assets upon which to make those decisions to deliver sustainable profitable growth. Data has a significant impact across all operations; impacting the targeting of new customers, accurate quotation and pricing, improve existing customer understanding, financial reporting, claims management, customer services and future proposition development.

​Contact us today about Data Governance training, coaching, or implementation.