The case notes that Nationwide had in mind a simple goal, but faced a difficult challenge. Why was this so difficult? What was the scenario the three executives faced when they joined Nationwide? How had the company gotten there? Solution The simple goal of Nationwide way to analyze the financial data and it proved to be challenging because at that point, the organization did not have a acomprehensive data storage and retrieval process. To make matters worse, the data was fragmented across various levels and even the authencity of the same could be questioned. The goal was simple: Why it was so difficult: Nationwide has such a variety of business and the company carried a lot of risk, The data governance can happen only when the various constituencies that own the data sources agree on a comman set of definitions, rules and procedures. But political manevering not for the faint of heart and most aspect was sticking to displine and not wavering. The executive done the following activities when joining togethere. .