Understanding the Data Governance Operating Model starts with four key structural concepts, as depicted in the following diagram:

• Asset Types
  • Business Assets
  • Data Assets
  • Technology Assets
  • Governance Assets
• Attribute Types
• Relation Types
• Complex Relation Types
• OMDP Step 1 – Transform Familiar Examples into Asset Types, Attribute Types and Relation Types
• OMDP Step 2 – Validate the Identified Types with Other Examples
• OMDP Step 3 – Check for Types to be Combined

[bok-callout]In addition to this, we devise a number of Organization Concepts: to support the people structures of the Data Governance Operating Model:

• Communities
• Domain Types
• Settings and Customization
  • Customizing Email Templates
  • Customizing the Styling with your own House Style Colors
• Users and Groups
• OMDP Step 8 – Identify Communities and Domains

Furthermore, there are Execution and Monitoring Concepts to support the executional aspects of the Operating Model:

• Articulation Score Calculators
• Validation Rules
• Role Types
• Status Types
• Issue Types
• Workflow Definitions
• OMDP Step 4 – Add Constraints and Validation Rules
• OMDP Step 5 – Determine Status Types for all Identified Asset Types
• OMDP Step 6 – Determine Role Types for all Identified Asset Types
• OMDP Step 7 – Design and Implement Execution and Monitoring Workflows
  • Workflow Deployment and Configuration
  • Workflow Usage and Management
  • Workflow Design
• Packaged Workflow Walk-throughs
  • Approval Process Walk Through
  • Cancel Process Walk-Through
  • Escalation Process Walk-Through
  • Issue Creation Walk-Through
  • Issue Management Walk-Through
  • Issue Move Walkthrough
  • Onboarding Workflow Walk Through
  • Propose New Business Asset Walk-Through
  • Propose New Business Term Workflow Walk Through
  • Propose New Code Value Walk-Through
  • Propose New Data Asset Walk-Through
  • Propose New Governance Asset Walk-Through
  • Propose New Technology Asset Walk-Through
  • Simple Approval Workflow Walk Through
  • Voting Sub-Process Walk-Through
  • Workflow Design Template

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By assigning all assets to a particular Asset Type, relating them to one another with different Relation Types, and organize them in Communities and Domains, we achieve traceability. An example of traceability is shown in the diagram below:

all the out-of-the-box asset types and relation types are show in the diagram below.