Data governance consists of processes and tasks that staff perform within their organization. When these activities are executed well, all data users enjoy easier and faster access to the data...
March 21, 2019
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Brenda Reeb
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March 13, 2019
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Jim Walery
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Building a culture that fosters data quality is the job of everyone in your higher education institution, from front line staff in various functional departments such as admissions and advancement...
March 06, 2019
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Aaron Walker
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Having accessible knowledge is an important part of data governance and we thought in this post (and in upcoming posts) we would go back to the basics. Topic this time: is “What is the difference...
February 27, 2019
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Jim Walery
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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...
February 20, 2019
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Jim Walery
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Internal communication is a key process in the success of a data quality program at a higher education institution. To build trust in your data you want to be as transparent as possible regarding...
February 14, 2019
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Aaron Walker
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In a previous post we shared some thoughts about shadow systems, and how they are symptomatic of poor data governance practices as much as, if not more than, users seeking to evade rules....
February 09, 2019
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Jim Walery
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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...
February 06, 2019
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Aaron Walker
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Everyone knows shadow systems are bad, and yet they still proliferate. Rather than enumerate once again why you should take pains to avoid them, we want to spend some time in this post exploring...
January 30, 2019
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Jim Walery
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Data quality is an important piece to data governance and thus important for a higher education institution. During our various webinars and blog posts we have mentioned several thoughts that we...
January 22, 2019
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Jim Walery
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Data quality is an important component of data governance at a higher education institution and includes people, processes and content. This blog post is about the various content (issues,...