Simple Data Series
Simple Data Smart Governance
Your practical guide to fixing data chaos with clear ownership, simple processes, and habits that actually stick.
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Books
Practical, people-first books on data and AI governance by Ram Srinivasan.
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New: The Governance Debt Playbook
How People, Not Tools, Pay Down the Hidden Cost of Ungoverned Data
Your data problems are people problems. And they are charging interest. This playbook shows leaders how to find governance debt, put a defensible number on it, and pay it down by starting with people, not tools.
Books & Publications
The Simple Data series
By Ram Srinivasan, Data Governance & Strategy Leader
Six published titles, and counting, turning years of governance practice into operator-friendly playbooks.
Simple Data Series
Simple Data: Federated, Not Fragmented
How large organizations can move beyond compliance checklists and create federated systems of trust.
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Simple Data: Governance for People, Not Just Processes
What if the biggest problem in data governance isn't the data, but the people?
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Simple Data: Master Data Management for People, Not Just Systems
Most MDM programs fail because they start with systems and tools. This book shows how successful programs begin with people.
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Simple Data: Trust by Design
How to move beyond compliance checklists and tool fixes to build data ecosystems rooted in trust.
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Simple Data: Governance in the Age of AI
Extend your governance to training data, model lineage, and human-AI collaboration. Includes a 90-day implementation plan, an AI-readiness maturity model, and a regulatory crosswalk.
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The Simple Data Philosophy
Why these books exist
The governance literature is full of frameworks no one operates. We wrote the Simple Data series to flip that, short, executable, written from the practitioner's chair.
Every book is built around the same belief: governance succeeds when the people doing the work can read the playbook on a flight and start applying it on Monday.
View All Books on Amazon →No Jargon, No Bloat
Plain language, executable frameworks. No vendor speak, only governance that gets adopted.
Immediate Operational Impact
Every chapter ships with a runbook. You can put the framework to work the same week.
Built to Last
Patterns calibrated to outlast any single platform, vendor, or org chart.
People Before Systems
Tools follow people. Stewards, owners, and analysts come first, every time.
Go Deeper
From books to implementation
Bring the Simple Data playbook into your organization with a senior-led engagement.