Operational data governanceis the manifestation of the actionable processes and protocols necessary to ensure that an acceptable level of confidence in the data effectively satisfies the organization's business needs:

• Understand the impacts of data flaws


• Correlating business impacts to dimensions of data quality


• Establishing quantitative metrics correlated to the business impacts


• Continuous monitoring in the context of data quality service level agreements


• Management reporting of qualitative aspects of governance


• Incentives for high performance