Definitions should eliminate confusion across the enterprise. And they should be accessible by all that work with data. There are two types of definitions - functional and technical. And they...
November 11, 2020
By
Jim Walery
In best,
committee,
data,
governance,
idata,
practices,
Data Cookbook,
definitions,
functional,
intelligence,
technical
November 04, 2020
By
Jim Walery
In committee,
data,
governance,
idata,
reporting,
Data Cookbook,
analytics,
management,
intelligence,
resources
Reporting and Analytics is very related to data governance and data intelligence. If you do not have trust in your data then you will not have trust in your reports and your analytic efforts. ...
October 20, 2020
By
Jim Walery
In committee,
data,
governance,
idata,
Data Cookbook,
management,
intelligence,
value,
resources,
reference,
valid,
lists
Reference data is the forgotten content in data governance (or as we call it, data intelligence). It needs to be documented and managed just like business glossary definitions and report...
October 14, 2020
By
Jim Walery
In committee,
data,
governance,
idata,
Data Cookbook,
management,
intelligence,
reference,
priorities
Do not make everything reference data in your data governance (data intelligence) area. This blog post will discuss that only the key ones should be documented and managed. And new ones should be...
October 07, 2020
By
Jim Walery
In committee,
data,
governance,
idata,
Data Cookbook,
responsibilities,
intelligence,
leadership,
oversight
Recently we held a webinar regarding responsibilities of a data governance (data intelligence) leadership and oversight committee. Feel free to watch the recording here. We thought in this blog...
October 09, 2019
By
Jim Walery
In committee,
content,
data,
ed,
education,
governance,
higher,
idata,
request,
Data Cookbook,
HE,
intelligence,
lifecycle,
resources,
life,
cycle
An important data governance (also referred to as data intelligence) process to have is an established data request process that is known and easy to use. This process should provide accurate and...
August 28, 2019
By
Jim Walery
In committee,
content,
data,
education,
governance,
higher,
idata,
steward,
Data Cookbook,
HE,
intelligence
Is your data governance (or data intelligence) content (report requests, data dumps, data definitions, etc.) taking too long to produce or does not seem to be as effective as they should be? ...
August 21, 2019
By
Jim Walery
In committee,
content,
data,
education,
governance,
higher,
idata,
Data Cookbook,
HE,
intelligence,
silo
In this post we’ll discuss the types of silos that exist at organizations (such as higher education institutions), data brawling, data culture, shadow systems, benefits of breaking down the silos...
August 21, 2017
By
Brenda Reeb
In committee,
cookbook,
data,
education,
governance,
higher,
JIT,
just,
time,
intelligence
In their Top 10 IT Issues, 2017, EDUCAUSE identified “data management and governance” as an issue to “improve…the management of institutional data through data standards, integration, protection,...
May 18, 2017
By
Brian Parish
In committee,
data,
governance,
JIT,
just,
request,
steward,
time,
intelligence
More and more organizations are implementing data governance (also referred to as data intelligence) to better document their data, and, from our experience, this usually means a large committee...