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Data is one of the most strategically significant assets an organisation possesses. It is also one of the most consistently ungoverned. The consequences - regulatory sanctions, unreliable decisions, failed analytics investments, and the quiet erosion of trust in data across the organisation - are well documented. The solution is data governance. Not as a compliance exercise, but as a genuine organisational capability built on authority, accountability, and principled practice.

Data Governance Fundamentals is the authoritative study companion for the DASCIN Data Governance Fundamentals certification, the industry's foundational qualification for data governance professionals. Built around the Enterprise Big Data Framework (EBDF) - the same framework that underpins the DASCIN examination — this book provides a rigorous, end-to-end treatment of every component of the framework: from the leadership and governance structures that provide authority, through the standards, policies, and processes that translate that authority into practice, to the nine observable data management properties that governance must produce in the data itself.

What distinguishes this book from a generic introduction to data governance is its depth of argument. Rather than cataloguing concepts and definitions, each chapter builds a case: why each governance component matters, how it fails in practice, what the organisational and human dynamics of its implementation look like, and how it connects to the components above and below it in the EBDF architecture. The result is a book that prepares readers not just to recall governance principles under exam conditions, but to reason about governance problems with the analytical confidence that the DASCIN examination - and real governance practice - demands.

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