Making data trustworthy across a global industrial group
A CHF 9.4M multi-year governance programme — stewardship, glossary and catalogue delivery across a complex international estate.
Where the engagement started
A global industrial group faced a familiar challenge at unfamiliar scale: data everywhere, trust nowhere specific. Finding data, understanding it and relying on its quality depended on individual knowledge rather than shared foundations. The question we started with: what would make data dependable for the people who use it every day — not just documented for the people who audit it?
What we designed and delivered
A stewardship operating model
Roles, accountabilities and governance cadence designed around how the organisation actually works — governance people follow because it helps them.
A business glossary at scale
Shared definitions for the terms the business runs on, connected to the data that carries them — ending the quiet disagreements behind conflicting numbers.
Enterprise catalogue delivery
Collibra implemented across a complex international estate — metadata, lineage and quality workflows engineered into daily use, not bolted on beside it.
Adoption as a workstream
Training, champions and measurable uptake — because a catalogue nobody opens governs nothing.
How the value shows up
Findable, understood, trusted
Data teams and business users working from the same, quality-assured foundations.
Governance as an enabler
Controls that speed up delivery by removing ambiguity, rather than adding gates.
A programme that endured
Multi-year delivery at CHF 9.4M scale — sustained because it kept proving value.
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