Tag Archives: governance

Integration between data systems is a key part of data management. As more data systems are used in an organization, system integrations are becoming even more critical. Data system exchanges...

Data governance (also called data intelligence) consists of processes and tasks that staff perform within their organization. When these activities are executed well, all data users enjoy easier...

Building a culture that fosters data quality is the job of everyone in your organization (such as a higher education institution), from front line staff in various functional departments such as...

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...

Internal communication is a key process in the success of a data quality program at an organization. To build trust in your data you want to be as transparent as possible regarding data quality. If...

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...

Data quality is an important piece to data governance (data intelligence) and thus important for organizations including higher education institution. During our various webinars and blog posts we...

Data quality is an important component of data governance and data intelligence at higher education institutions and organizations. Data quality includes people, processes and content. This blog post...

Who owns the data at organizations and higher education institutions? Information Technology (IT) Department or the specific functional department like Admissions, Human Resources, Institutional...

Data quality is a key component of data governance (also called data intelligence). This post lists impacts of poor quality data and identifies sources of poor quality data. If you can’t get traction...

In an earlier post we covered components of a data quality program, data quality rules and data quality assessments. The last post in this Data Quality series recommends a process to address data...

Data governance (data intelligence) is an organizational priority and it is critical to give all employees the resources and training to achieve this priority as soon as they walk in the door.

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In an earlier post we covered components of a data quality program and data quality rules.  Today we want to discuss data quality assessment or measurement.  

So, you don’t trust your data. Well, you need to do something about it. You need to create a culture for having trusted data and have effective data governance (also called data intelligence) in...

In an earlier post we described the components of a data quality program. Today we will discuss one of those components - data quality rules and a catalog to organize the rules. A data quality rule...

Data governance or data intelligence at an organization is an on-going activity and like all major activities, needs buy-in from above for it to be successful. Since data governance requires input...

Data quality is critical at organizations such as universities. This post, one in a series on data quality, introduces data quality programs. Learn about the tasks involved and the benefits of a data...

Data Governance and data intelligence is about best-practices designed to help people access, understand, connect, and effectively use your organization’s data across all systems.

Data Governance and data intelligence is about best-practices designed to help people access, understand, connect, and effectively use your organization’s data across all systems.