Keep in mind that data governance and data intelligence is not only about technology and information but also about staff. Make it easy for the staff at your organization to follow data-related...
April 09, 2025
By
Jim Walery
In committee,
data,
governance,
idata,
inventory,
request,
stewardship,
Data Cookbook,
quality,
system,
communication,
policies,
lineage,
training,
staff,
intelligence,
reference,
roadmap
February 08, 2023
By
Jim Walery
In committee,
content,
data,
education,
governance,
higher,
idata,
steward,
Data Cookbook,
HE,
intelligence
In this blog post we will be discussing data governance or data intelligence committees (or whatever your organization calls it). Sometimes these committees are ineffective. There is nothing wrong...
February 09, 2022
By
Jim Walery
In committee,
data,
governance,
idata,
team,
Data Cookbook,
management,
intelligence,
resources,
oversight
A data governance and data intelligence initiative is very important to an organization. This initiative or effort needs to be managed and have oversight. We have written some blog posts, created...
November 11, 2020
By
Jim Walery
In best,
committee,
data,
governance,
idata,
practices,
Data Cookbook,
definitions,
functional,
intelligence,
technical
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 are...
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. The...
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 post...
October 09, 2019
By
Jim Walery
In best,
committee,
content,
data,
ed,
education,
governance,
higher,
idata,
practices,
report,
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 (such as a request for a new report) that is known and easy to use. This...
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 systems inventory, data definitions, etc.) taking too long to produce or does not seem to be as effective as...
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 and...
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 with...