What is governance? Governance is a set of policies, procedures, and processes that ensures that work is done effectively. It defines roles and grants authority to implement the policies, procedures, and processes. Governance is an operational management activity as distinct from leadership which creates and communicates a vision.
If there is no vision that there is a need for a central repository, there can be no effective governance. The reason is that leadership comes before management. Where leadership hands off to management, there governance begins.
Modeling an organization is often done by business analysts located in an IT department. They have only a limited relationship with the key decision-makers inside the business. Sometimes the modelers are assigned to different departments. This results in different frameworks, methodologies, and toolsets being adopted. Instead of one central repository of knowledge the business has many, resulting in duplication of effort...