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....
July 31, 2018
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Jim Walery
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June 26, 2018
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Jim Walery
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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...
May 23, 2018
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Jim Walery
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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...
May 16, 2018
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Jim Walery
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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...
May 11, 2018
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Jim Walery
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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...
February 20, 2018
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Brian Parish
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Data governance needs to provide trust in the data for it to be successful. Organizations need to trust their data so that they can make effective decision making. But building trust is not easy. It...
February 19, 2018
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Brenda Reeb
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It is critical to know where your data resides. Therefore, it is necessary to inventory all of the data systems used at the organization. This post discusses what to include in an inventory. The...
February 18, 2018
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Brenda Reeb
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There are many ways to approach data governance (or as we call it data intelligence) at an organization. This post lists the primary approaches and provides a list of items to consider when selecting...
February 16, 2018
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Jim Walery
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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...
February 15, 2018
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Brenda Reeb
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Implementing effective reporting at any organization is not easy (including higher education institutions). This post outlines the barriers to effective reporting and provides solutions to eliminate...
February 14, 2018
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Brian Parish
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In this post we review, from our experience and knowledge, various points in making the case for pragmatic data governance (or data intelligence) return on investment (ROI). Good data governance will...
February 14, 2018
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Jim Walery
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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...
February 12, 2018
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Jim Walery
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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...
January 01, 2018
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Brenda Reeb
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In their Top 10 IT Issues, 2017, EDUCAUSE identified “data management and governance” as issue #6 and defined it as the need to “improve…the management of institutional data through data standards,...
December 07, 2017
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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,...
November 30, 2017
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Jim Walery
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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...
August 21, 2017
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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,...
June 21, 2017
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Brenda Reeb
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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
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Brian Parish
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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...
March 20, 2017
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Brenda Reeb
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A recent New York Times article explores the burgeoning world of student data in an attempt to explain why it holds such power, particularly with at-risk students. Recent work in learning analytics...
January 17, 2017
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Brenda Reeb
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As you many know, IData publishes a number of publicly-available definitions and specifications for public consumption, including national data sets like IPEDS and CDS, state bodies like SCHEV in...
We posted previously about the Chief Data Officer role, inspired by a great article by Mike Anderson. In his article he points out that only a few institutions of higher education have such a...