This book provides business managers, IT professionals, and students with an integrated approach to designing, developing, and sustaining an effective data governance strategy. Focusing on the organizational, operational, and strategic aspects of data governance, it addresses the issue of how to leverage, derive, and sustain value from informational assets that are housed in the IT infrastructure. It provides an overall understanding of data governance, addressing the burning issue of aligning data assets to both IT assets and organizational strategic goals in order to leverage potential value in data assets.