A Seat at All the Tables: A Data Governance Case Study

from the World Bank Group

DATE: 2016-01-06

TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific

PRICE: Free to all attendees

About the Webinar

Many Data Governance programs have a similar complaint: They don’t “have a seat at the table” for IT decisions that impact data. Instead, they are too often involved late in IT processes, with a limited and reactive role. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

In just two years, the business-led Data Governance program at the International Finance Corporation (IFC, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group), went from occasional partnership with IT teams to being considered a strategic partner of IT, with representation – and often a leadership role – all along the IT Value Chain, including strategy development, planning/budget prioritization, shaping of  programs, roadmaps, and work plans, re-alignment of the management oversight landscape, project execution, service management and PMO activities, the introduction of a Data Delivery Life Cycle (DDLC), and monitoring/aligning two dozen interdependent IT projects.

This didn’t happen by accident or executive decree. Instead, it was the result of an “influence from the center” strategy that involved many people from all levels and functions across the organization who had one thing in common: they agreed that it is important to IFC and its clients to evolve how data is governed and managed. Hear from Gwen Thomas (IFC’s Corporate Data Advocate and the founder of the Data Governance Institute) and Jennifer Trotsko (Head of the IFC Data Governance Office) about this strategy, the framework used to engage, educate, and involve stakeholders, and lessons they learned along their journey.


About the Speakers

Gwen Thomas
Corporate Data Advocate, IFC (and the founder of the Data Governance Institute)

Gwen ThomasGwen Thomas
is a Data Governance pioneer, helping to define and evangelize the field. Founder of the Data Governance Institute (DGI) and primary author of the framework and guidance materials found at www.datagovernance.com, she has influenced hundreds of programs around the globe. In the spring of 2013, Gwen joined the International Finance Corporation, part of the World Bank Group, as their Corporate Data Advocate.Earlier in her career, Gwen spent a dozen years working in the trenches and in management roles as a systems integration consultant and Knowledge Manager. Information-Management.com has named her one of "17 Women in Technology You Should be Following on Twitter " (she's @gwenthomasdgi) and has included her in their Data Governance Gurus list.


Jennifer Trotsko
Head of the IFC Data Governance Office

Jennifer TrotskoJennifer Trotsko is the Head of the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) Data Governance Office. Ms. Trotsko has been a data governance professional for over 10 years and was responsible for the establishment of the function at IFC in 2001. Currently she is leading IFC and the World Bank Group on an enterprise-wide master data management implementation and customer quality improvement program, both of which sit at the very center of IFC’s strategic priorities. In May, Ms. Trotsko presented at the Master Data Management Summit Europe 2015 on the subject of “Aligning Business & IT Requirements in Global MDM for the World Bank Group.” Ms. Trotsko started her career with IFC in Moscow in 1997 as a Project Manager for IFC’s Russian Electricity Sector Reform Project where she advised clients on strategies for de-monopolizing the electricity sector.


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