What is Data Governance ?
Data Governance can be defined simply as 'Doing things right' in Enterprise Data Management by complying with 
the appropriate rules, policies and procedures.

It is concerned with ensuring Compliance with corporate policies and procedures for Data Management.

These will all be designed to make sure that data used throughout the Enterprise is good-quality data, certainly 
when it appears in Performance reports.

It's worth checking out Wikipedia on Data Governance
  
Why is it important ?

The CEO needs to be able to put hand-on-heart and say 'This Data is Good'
It is also very important that Users have confidence in the data in their Reports.


How do we get started ?
1. Establish Policies, Procedures, Roles and Responsibilities 
2. Look for candidates
3. Aim for results in six months and interim results in three months.