Value-Centered Data Governance Certificate Program from the DGI

Value-Centered

Data Governance

Certificate Program

Earn the Value-Centered Data Governance (VCDG) Credential. This five-course DGI Certificate Program teaches practical Data Governance while emphasizing how to clearly communicate its benefits to business, compliance, and IT teams in accessible, non-technical language.

Value-Centered Data Governance: Complete Training Program

$699

One-time payment

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This training program isn't just about theory;

it's about making Data Governance work for your organization.

Upon completion of all five Certificate Program courses, you should be able to:

Adapt the components of the DGI Data Governance Framework to fit your organization’s unique needs.
Plan, design, and execute your Data Governance function and work program.
Focus and scope your program’s processes and outputs based on what is most needed and valued.
Recognize and describe needed program capabilities and staff competencies.
Identify points of collaboration with teams from business, technology, data management, security, privacy, policy-making, and the C-suite.
Effectively communicate the value delivered by your Data Governance contributions and program.

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Targeted Skill Development and Specialization

This training is designed to help you gain the knowledge and skills needed to:

Demonstrate the value of your program’s contributions, by

Recognizing Value Anchors within your organization
Identifying the programs, projects, and products that benefit from Data Governance
Using simple, repeatable language to communicate those benefits to beneficiaries, participants, and supporters

Bring focus and scope to your objectives, work program, and planned outputs by assessing:

Factors that affect Data Governance Work Programs
Expectations for your program’s contributions to data quality, architecture, metadata, access, policy-making, privacy, AI, and other area
Options for organizing workstreams, statusing, and metrics collection

Describe options for the structure and staffing of Data Governance at your organization, including:

The Data Governance Office (DGO)
Decision Bodies, such as a Data Governance Council
Data Stewards and Data Custodians
Data Stakeholders/Stewards

Contribute to hiring, evaluation, and assignments of managers and staff, based on

Program capabilities, as influenced by your program’s focus and scope
Needed competencies, as affected by the convergence of process, data, and tools
Collaborative efforts, and the skills needed to support them

Add value in collaborative environments, by

Explaining Data Governance core concepts
Demonstrating how Data Governance outputs increase the value of Data Products
Proposing control objectives for data, systems, and processes
Creating or contributing to policies
Working with project managers to establish appropriate decision rights and accountabilities for data-related activities

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Why do Credentials Matter?

Professional credentials are no longer just an advantage — they're essential. For employers, the VCDG Certificate offers crucial assurance: it signifies that staff have a solid grasp of Data Governance fundamentals, can speak a common language regardless of unique backgrounds, and articulate the "who, what, how, and why" of Data Governance work.

A Trusted Source of Data Governance Excellence.

Since its founding in 2003, The Data Governance Institute has been a pioneer, establishing much of the field's most influential guidance and consistently evolving with the discipline. Its widely adopted DGI Data Governance Framework helps organizations classify, organize, and communicate the complex activities involved in managing enterprise data. Practitioners around the world consistently report basing their programs on the DGI Data Governance Framework and supporting materials. The DGI website, DataGovernance.com has become one of the most trusted sources of information about Data Governance, Data Stewardship, and related topics.

How this Certificate Program is Organized

This program is divided into five courses. Each course has modules and sections containing lessons. Each course concludes with a Final Quiz. You’re encouraged to move sequentially through the Program; previous courses can be revisited as needed.