A responsibility of a data steward is to ensure that data decisions and impacts are communicated to the organization. A data steward is a role or a function that is responsible for managing and maintaining the quality and the usability of the data within a specific data domain or a business area, such as finance, marketing, or human resources. A data steward can provide some benefits for data governance, which is the process of establishing and enforcing the policies and standards for the collection, use, storage, and protection of data, such as enhancing the accuracy and the reliability of the data, preventing or detecting errors or inconsistencies, and supporting the audit and the compliance activities. A data steward can perform various tasks or duties, such as:

Defining and documenting the data elements, attributes, definitions, and rules within the data domain or the business area, and ensuring that they are consistent and aligned with the data governance policies and standards.

Monitoring and measuring the data quality and the data performance within the data domain or the business area, and identifying and resolving any data issues or problems, such as missing, inaccurate, or duplicate data.

Coordinating and collaborating with the data owners, the data custodians, the data users, and the data governance team, and ensuring that the data decisions and impacts are communicated and understood by the organization, such as the data requirements, the data changes, or the data risks.

Ensuring that data decisions and impacts are communicated to the organization is a responsibility of a data steward, as it can help to ensure the transparency and the accountability of the data governance process, as well as to facilitate the coordination and the cooperation of the data governance stakeholders, such as the data owners, the data custodians, the data users, and the data governance team. Ensuring alignment of the data governance effort to the organization, conducting data governance interviews with the organization, and documenting data governance requirements are not responsibilities of a data steward, although they may be related or possible tasks or duties. Ensuring alignment of the data governance effort to the organization is a responsibility of the data governance team, which is a group of experts or advisors who are responsible for defining and implementing the data governance policies and standards, as well as for overseeing and evaluating the data governance process and performance. Conducting data governance interviews with the organization is a task or a technique that can be used by the data governance team, the data steward, or the data auditor, to collect and analyze the information and the feedback about the data governance process and performance, from the data governance stakeholders, such as the data owners, the data custodians, the data users, or the data consumers. Documenting data governance requirements is a task or a technique that can be used by the data governance team, the data owner, or the data user, to specify and describe the needs and the expectations of the data governance process and performance, such as the data quality, the data security, or the data compliance.