To (badly) paraphrase JFK, focus not on the governance, but on what governance lets you do.
- Find what you’re looking for.
- Make better decisions.
- Shorten your audit response time.
- Protect people’s privacy.
- Enhance data security.
- Facilitate migration.
- Enable successful AI.
Outcomes like these are directly business-critical, and must be at the center of your governance efforts. If you’re “doing governance” for any other reason – maybe your boss told you to? – then you won’t significantly improve anything. You’ll also alienate the people whose help you need, thereby making it that much harder to try again later.
Remember: governance for its own sake is a waste of time. Governance for a purpose is entirely worth the effort.