The list of initiatives that are data-enabled—indeed, data-intensive—vary from company to company, from industry to industry. But the common denominator is an increasing awareness that these and other programs can’t succeed without clean, meaningful, and available information. In this white paper, Baseline Consulting’s Jill Dyché discusses how the data conversation is changing from philosophical questioning to hard-core tactics, from "What do we need?" to "Where do we start?" It covers the most common reasons for data governance failure, as well as the components of data governance that will inform the right strategy and give companies a means of determining where and how to begin their data governance journeys.