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...
March 13, 2019
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February 27, 2019
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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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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...
February 09, 2019
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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...
January 30, 2019
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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...
January 22, 2019
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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...
January 16, 2019
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Who owns the data at organizations and higher education institutions? Information Technology (IT) Department or the specific functional department like Admissions, Human Resources, Institutional...
January 02, 2019
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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...
December 05, 2018
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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.
The...
November 07, 2018
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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...
October 10, 2018
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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...
September 12, 2018
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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.
August 30, 2018
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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.
July 31, 2018
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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....
November 30, 2017
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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...