Collibra Best Practices Series
By Becky Lyons, Senior Data Governance Consultant
- FOCUS ON THE VALUE CASE FOR DRIVING ADOPTION – Understanding what is essential for different stakeholder groups and identifying critical organizational goals, objectives and priorities is imperative to driving new technology changes. To increase buy-in and drive Collibra adoption, create a value case that answers the question, “What’s in it for me — and my organization." View
- ENGAGE THE RIGHT PEOPLE AT THE RIGHT TIME – To drive Collibra adoption in the best way possible, business and IT stakeholders must be involved with decision-making early on and throughout the implementation. Their participation helps ensure Collibra's value is actualized when people in your business use and rely on it. View
- ALIGN TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION WITH CHANGE MANAGEMENT – Successful technology implementation impacts many areas of a business, including its culture, roles, processes and policies. A critical success driver is to use a structured, organized approach focused on the human side of change. View
- FOR COLLIBRA ADOPTION SUCCESS, COMMUNICATE EARLY AND OFTEN -Don't underestimate the value of ongoing communication and information-sharing when rolling out a technology change. Effective communication is key in sharing expectations about how processes may change and how reinforcement and support of changes help drive your business forward. View
- MAKE COLLIBRA TRAINING MEANINGFUL AND ACCESSIBLE – If your organization invested in Collibra (or another technology tool) to enable data governance and metadata management, the right training will be a crucial success factor in its adoption. View
- MEASURE IMPACT AND PROGRESS FOR COLLIBRA ADOPTION – An organization's technology roll-out is typically the culmination of months or even years of hard work and a significant financial spend. To get the best ROI from your technology investment, measure adoption and progress. View
- MANAGE RESISTANCE TO COLLIBRA ADOPTION – Resistance can occur throughout a technology implementation. Managing it takes time, energy and resources. How to make the transition easier? Create a plan that helps you identify the issues people have, address the problems, know how to communicate action steps, and, of course, follow through with solutions. View
- INTEGRATE (META)GOVERNANCE FOR COLLIBRA ADOPTION – "Metagovernance" refers to everything you need to do to maintain and improve a Collibra environment and its contents over time. This includes guidelines, policies, processes, standards and tools — everything in place to ensure Collibra continues to provide value with up-to-date and reliable information. View
- BLEND AGILE & TRADITIONAL APPROACHES TO DATA GOVERNANCE FOR COLLIBRA ADOPTION – Most organizations are not wholly centralized or fully agile in their approach to data governance — and that's okay. The key is creating a balance between the two methods and selecting things from each methodology that fits your organization. View
About Becky Lyons
Becky Lyons, PhD, specializes in helping people and organizations understand and improve their performance. Becky is a consultant at First San Francisco Partners and is an experienced leader and author that has learned the impact change can have on team dynamics as well as individual, team, and organizational performance.
With experience as a data governance consultant, healthcare executive and Organizational Development leader, Becky has helped leaders at all levels of organization to develop the knowledge skills and attitudes needed to face whatever changes come their way.
