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Issue Management

What is Issue Management?

The process of identifying, tracking, escalating, and resolving compliance issues, audit findings, and risk events to ensure timely remediation.

Risk Management

What the standards actually require on issue management

Requirements naming issue management across 4 standards, quoted from the control text.

Establish the process by which data issues (quality, conflicts over definitions, security, compliance, ownership) are logged, escalated through the governance bodies and resolved, with an issue log and resolution records.

dama-dmbok2-data-management-body-of-knowledge-2nd-edition::DG.2.10 · DG.2.10 Engage in issue management →

Track supplier performance against security and C-SCRM obligations and manage issues to closure with documented escalation paths.

SCRM-SUP-3 · Supplier Performance and Issue Management →

Approved policy, standards and procedures for managing data quality issues apply consistently on-premises and in the cloud; issue reporting is integrated across environments; every issue is linked to the specific data asset and its catalog metadata;

edm-council-cdmc-cloud-data-management-capability-framework::5.2.4 · 5.2.4 Data Quality Issues are managed →

The data management program itself is governed: self-governance of program management, funding oversight, issue management and cross-functional compliance, with governance periodically evaluated and adjusted to stay effective.

edm-council-dcam-data-management-capability-assessment-model::6.2 · 6.2 Govern the Data Management Program →

Questions people ask about issue management

What is Issue Management?
The process of identifying, tracking, escalating, and resolving compliance issues, audit findings, and risk events to ensure timely remediation.
Why is Issue Management important for compliance?
Issue Management is a key concept in Risk Management. Understanding issue management helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 1,016 frameworks with 316K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Issue Management?
Issue Management appears in the requirement text of DAMA-DMBOK2 - Data Management Body of Knowledge (2nd Edition), NIST SP 800-161, EDM Council CDMC - Cloud Data Management Capability Framework, EDM Council DCAM - Data Management Capability Assessment Model. Across these standards we have identified 6 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Issue Management?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how issue management applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 1,016 frameworks.

See how Issue Management applies across compliance frameworks

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Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.