NOTE- You may refer Data Group Master for more back-groun. In brief, BiPMinstitute.com recommends business owners to be assigned for every business data-group.

An organization going through a high-change environment perhaps needs a greater and more intense level of business ownership of Data-groups (for example, having a business owner for all customer data). We assume that your change is not only limited to an organization structure but also resulting in changes to business processes and systems.

The business ownership of data-groups is not to a person but a role. Irrespective of the changes in the organization structures, few traditional roles will stay- for example head of marketing, head of sales, head of order fulfillment, head of finance etc... The idea is to assign the business ownership to the most logical role and keep it there even if the person occupying the role changes. In case you have a situation, where the role is vacant and a person needs to be hired, the business ownership of a given data-group will stay with the person who is acting as the back-up to that role.

The bigger question in this transition phase is the overhead to orient the executive to the responsibility linked to the business ownership of data quality. A typical business owner may take time to understand the meaning of that responsibility. The best way to handle it is to have an orientation for half a day or so, to take the business owner through the data quality practice frame-work and how he or she fits in.

The fact is that more and more organizations are finding themselves in a constant change environment, and the shelf-life of a person in a role (and the role itself) is shortening. In that case having a standard orientation kit for DQ business owners, will help. The other way to quickly acclimatize a person to the DQ business ownership is to include the DQ ownership in his/her goals.