Since it is the beginning of the year, it is a good time to think about the information technology (IT) challenges, issues, and priorities for the year. Make sure that the organization’s strategic...
January 14, 2021
By
Jim Walery
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governance,
idata,
Data Cookbook,
technology,
educause,
information,
priorities
IData was at the Educause conference in October, 2019, where Educause presented its top ten IT priorities for 2020, based on its research and membership survey. For the past several years, data...
July 24, 2019
By
Jim Walery
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education,
governance,
higher,
idata,
process,
Data Cookbook,
technology,
people,
HE
We are a firm believer of just-in-time data governance. In this blog post we will cover less expensive, better ways to do data governance over the more typical (and more costly) ways.
July 18, 2019
By
Jim Walery
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education,
governance,
higher,
idata,
process,
reporting,
Data Cookbook,
technology,
people,
HE,
policies,
how
Reporting can always be improved. It is often not the reporting technology being used that is the problem. Usually it comes down to people and processes. In this post we share some thoughts on...
June 12, 2019
By
Jim Walery
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education,
governance,
higher,
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process,
reporting,
Data Cookbook,
technology,
people,
HE,
policies,
not,
problem
While some higher education institutions have been successful with a wide range of reporting tools, many others struggle with the same tools. We feel it is because institutional reporting problems...
May 05, 2015
By
Aaron Walker
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education,
governance,
higher,
reporting,
Data Cookbook,
quality,
technology,
culture
Anyone who's ever attended a Data Cookbook demonstration, or heard us talk about it at a higher education conference, has heard us say this: "Reporting is not a technology problem." While we think...