Building a culture that fosters data quality is the job of everyone in your organization (such as a higher education institution), from front line staff in various functional departments such as...
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Data quality can be improved at any organization including higher education institutions. And it is a team effort with thoughts from many. To do this, we suggest getting individuals into a room...
Internal communication is a key process in the success of a data quality program at an organization. To build trust in your data you want to be as transparent as possible regarding data quality. If...
Data dominates on EDUCAUSE’s annual list of the “top 10 IT issues” for higher education institutions as 5 of the issues are about data. Focus this year is about achieving trusted data and putting...
Data quality is an important piece to data governance (data intelligence) and thus important for organizations including higher education institution. During our various webinars and blog posts we...
Data quality is an important component of data governance and data intelligence at higher education institutions and organizations. Data quality includes people, processes and content. This blog post...
Who owns the data at organizations and higher education institutions? Information Technology (IT) Department or the specific functional department like Admissions, Human Resources, Institutional...
Data quality is a key component of data governance (also called data intelligence). This post lists impacts of poor quality data and identifies sources of poor quality data. If you can’t get traction...
Data governance (data intelligence) is an organizational priority and it is critical to give all employees the resources and training to achieve this priority as soon as they walk in the door.
The...
So, you don’t trust your data. Well, you need to do something about it. You need to create a culture for having trusted data and have effective data governance (also called data intelligence) in...
Data governance or data intelligence at an organization is an on-going activity and like all major activities, needs buy-in from above for it to be successful. Since data governance requires input...
Data Governance and data intelligence is about best-practices designed to help people access, understand, connect, and effectively use your organization’s data across all systems.
Data Governance and data intelligence is about best-practices designed to help people access, understand, connect, and effectively use your organization’s data across all systems.
Data Governance (also referred to as data intelligence) is about best-practices designed to help people access, understand, connect, and effectively use your organization’s data across all systems....
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a European Union (EU) law that took effect on May 25, 2018. This regulation provides greater protection to an individual’s personal information and...
A data dictionary is a repository of definitions of the data you use to make decisions at your organization. This post will suggest, gathered from our experience, the preferred way to build your data...
There are many paths to create data governance (data intelligence) content for organizations such as higher education institutions. Creation of the path should be determined by institution...
In higher education there are many types of content for data governance (also called data intelligence). This blog post will mention the 12 areas of content that we have learned about from our...
This blog post will cover the benefits of having an inventory of your data systems at your organization (such as a higher education institution). Part of the knowledgebase for data governance (also...
We were searching the web recently and came across this oldie but goodie survey by the Higher Education Data Warehousing (HEDW) forum (www.hedw.org) titled “2017 HEDW Survey of Top 10 Issues”....
We’re a big fan of Dataversity (www.dataversity.org) which provides data education for business and IT professionals. We came across their “Data Governance Trends in 2018” article, dated January 24,...
Unsure of where your organization is in the data governance (data intelligence) process?
Then ask and answer the following questions:
At the end of last year, we attended a regional Institutional Research (IR) conference and sat in on a discussion group regarding data governance (data intelligence) challenges. We loved the great...
The American Council of Education (ACE) came out with a brief, titled “The Data-Enabled Executive: Using Analytics for Student Success and Sustainability”, to increase data-informed decision making...
We are often asked about data governance (or as we call it data intelligence) such as what is it and what are some key best practices in data governance. This post summarizes our thoughts on this. We...