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,
technical
November 04, 2020
By
Jim Walery
In committee,
data,
governance,
idata,
reporting,
Data Cookbook,
analytics,
management,
resources
Reporting and Analytics is very related to data governance. If you do not have trust in your data then you will not have trust in your reports and your analytic efforts. The report efforts are...
October 20, 2020
By
Jim Walery
In committee,
data,
governance,
idata,
Data Cookbook,
management,
resources,
reference
Reference data is the forgotten content in data governance. It needs to be documented and managed just like business glossary definitions and report specifications. Over time we have gathered...
October 14, 2020
By
Jim Walery
In committee,
data,
governance,
idata,
Data Cookbook,
management,
reference,
priorities
Do not make everything reference data in your data governance area. This blog post will discuss that only the key ones should be documented and managed. And new ones should be added to over time....
October 07, 2020
By
Jim Walery
In committee,
data,
governance,
idata,
Data Cookbook,
responsibilities,
leadership,
oversight
Recently we held a webinar regarding responsibilities of a data governance leadership and oversight committee. Feel free to watch the recording here. We thought in this blog post we would cover...
October 09, 2019
By
Jim Walery
In committee,
content,
data,
education,
governance,
higher,
idata,
request,
Data Cookbook,
HE,
lifecycle,
resources
An important data governance process to have is an established data request process that is known and easy to use. This process should provide accurate and trusted information. Often one data...
August 28, 2019
By
Jim Walery
In committee,
content,
data,
education,
governance,
higher,
idata,
steward,
Data Cookbook,
HE
Is your data governance content (report requests, data dumps, data definitions, etc.) taking too long to produce or doesn’t seem to be as effective as they should be? Content is like a continual...
August 21, 2019
By
Jim Walery
In committee,
content,
data,
education,
governance,
higher,
idata,
Data Cookbook,
HE,
silo
In this post we’ll discuss the types of silos that exist at higher education institutions, data brawling, data culture, shadow systems, benefits of breaking down the silos and what actions can be...
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,...
More and more organizations are implementing data governance to better document their data, and, from our experience, this usually means a large committee with lots of meetings. And, this often...