Governance fails when it is a gate. It works when the approved path is also the fastest one.
Make the right way the easy way
Give teams a catalogue of approved datasets, a template for a new model and a review that takes days, not months. People follow rules that remove work.
Keep the policy short
Three pages people have read beat thirty they have not. Put the detail in tooling and checklists, where it is applied automatically.
“Nobody resents a rule that saves them a week.”
Key takeaways
Make the approved path the fastest path.
Put detail in tooling, not documents.
Keep reviews to days, not months.
Marcus Okafor
Partner, Data. Builds the platforms and metric layers that leadership teams rely on, after a decade in retail and payments analytics.
