Apex Management Solutions is a management consulting firm that specializes in offering strategic and operational management solutions to businesses across various industries. You have just been recruited by the above company. This company is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland and has offices in Brussels, Madrid, and Athens, and has over 500 employees and plans to grow to 1000 within the next three years.

Your first job is to set out a business case for the company to design and develop a data governance program for the organisation to ensure that its business needs are met. Illustrate your response with diagrams as appropriate. Consider the context provided about the company to make assumptions in your answers.

In your response, include the following:

1. The reasons why a data governance program might be needed (you may discuss what data challenges the company faces and how these would be solved with data governance). (600-650 words)