Shawn Helwig

How your target manages and governs its data is a key indicator of the data’s value. Here is an approach for quickly assessing your target’s data governance and data management proficiency.

BEST PRACTICE : Establish a Data Dictionary COMPETENCY: Data Governance Operations Best Practice Details: A data dictionary serves as the mechanism for centralizing and sharing standardized and consistent data definitions. The formality and sophistication of the data dictionary can vary depending on the size and complexity of the organization. The dictionary can be as simple as a shared spreadsheet of definitions, to a web-based wiki-site that can be accessed and searched by various...

The vast majority of organizations reported substantial difficulty matching IT output with strategic and operational business demand in 2025. This is a problem. To make matters even worse, the growing demand from the business to charge forward with AI-related initiatives is putting even more pressure on the CIO and their IT departments. If you’re the CIO or in IT, I am “preaching to the choir”. Nearly every client I've worked with in the last several years is having difficulty getting their...