Enterprise Data Management Resource Center
This resource center compiles best practices to organize and operationalize effective enterprise data management.
Enterprise data management is a prerequisite for data-informed decision-making and securing data on campus, yet it requires significant effort and organization for success. With so many moving parts on campus, higher ed leaders struggle to identify and push forward priorities, which often leads to stalled data efforts.
To help higher ed data teams with the planning needed for successful enterprise data management efforts, EAB compiled the Enterprise Data Management Resource Center. Explore the top priorities that institutions must accomplish to improve data management—along with corresponding EAB resources—in five overarching categories:
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Optimize governance structures
- Structure and staff data governance committee(s)
- Clarify leadership roles to ensure organizational continuity
- Map data domains and designate data stewards
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Develop an enterprise data strategy
- Solicit campus feedback to identify data strategy priorities
- Establish data strategy principles and vision
- Formalize an enterprise data management strategy
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Build stakeholder readiness
- Assess campus data readiness
- Garner senior leader sponsorship
- Educate units on their role in strong data management
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Standardize data definitions
- Prioritize areas for data standardization
- Create enterprise data objects for commonly used data
- Compile data definitions in a user-friendly format
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Deliver quality data to campus
- Enable access to data based on role
- Embed data quality accountability mechanisms
- Facilitate active data consumption
Optimize governance structures
Structure and staff data governance committee(s)
Research Report: Data Governance Committees
In section one of our Designing Effective Data Governance report, discover best practices for designing agile and sustainable committees, including sample committee charters, structures, and member lists.
Expert Consultation: Data Governance Committee Review
Request a customized review and discussion with an EAB expert based on your proposed or acting data governance committee structures. To participate, reach out to your Strategic Leader or [email protected] and submit your current data governance structures and member list. An EAB expert will review your materials and provide tailored best-practice recommendations.
Clarify leadership roles to ensure organizational continuity
Research Report: Initiative Leadership and Organizational Continuity
Section two of our Designing Effective Data Governance report outlines how to establish leadership roles and organizational guardrails to ensure the sustainability of data work.
Tool: Guide to Clarify IT and IR Roles and Responsibilities
Access a template and discussion questions to clearly delineate IT and IR roles and responsibilities for data management efforts.
Map data domains and designate data stewards
Research Report: Implementation and Stewardship Frameworks
Section three of our Designing Effective Data Governance report shares tactics and case studies on preparing people and structures to operationalize enterprise data management, including overviews of data domain mapping processes and data steward roles.
Develop an enterprise data strategy
Solicit campus feedback to identify data strategy priorities
Tool: Data Strategy Self-Assessment
Institutional data leaders should conduct this self-assessment to help identify strengths and opportunities and prompt discussion about data strategy priorities.
Establish data strategy principles and vision
Tool: Data Strategy Principles and Vision (Forthcoming)
We’re developing a framework and guide to help leaders develop the vision and principles that serve as the foundation of their data strategy.
Formalize an enterprise data management strategy
Event: Enterprise Data Management Collaborative
Join senior data leaders for four sessions of an expert-led curriculum that will help you develop and implement a comprehensive data strategy on your campus.
On-Demand Webinar: Designing Effective Governance That Supports University Strategy
Watch a panel of higher ed CIOs discuss how they developed their enterprise data strategy, from design to addressing common roadblocks.
Tool: Operationalizing Data Strategy (Forthcoming)
Stay tuned for a framework and guide to help leaders establish accountability for and make their data strategy actionable.
Build stakeholder readiness
Assess campus data readiness
Expert Consultation: Assess Key Stakeholders in Enterprise Data Management
Complete this self-exercise or contact your Strategic Leader for an expert consultation to identify the right stakeholders to engage in data management efforts and how to approach opposition.
Garner senior leader sponsorship
On-Demand Webinar: Leadership Perspectives on Campus Data Strategy
Uncover higher ed leadership’s perspective on the state of data and analytics on campus based on EAB’s 2022 Data & Analytics Survey.
Educate units on their role in strong data management
On-Demand Webinar: Building Data Literacy
Hear about strategies to overcome common barriers and challenges related to campus data literacy.
Standardize data definitions
Prioritize areas for data standardization
Research Report: Select Strategic Focus Areas For Data Definition
Section one of our Defining Enterprise Data Terms for Campus report shares how to select where to begin data standardization efforts, including sample terms and priority analyses.
Tool: Priority Data Analyses to Promote Student Success
This tool will help you identify data focus areas that best align with desired student success analyses and associated outcomes.
Create enterprise data objects for commonly used data
Research Report: Data Definition Processes and Standards
In section two of our Defining Enterprise Data Terms for Campus report, access strategy frameworks and definition templates to help streamline enterprise data definition and standardization.
Tool: Tackling the Data Quality Challenge
Our templates and guidelines will help leaders standardize definitions and ensure the quality of the most common data pain points.
Compile data definitions in a user-friendly format
Research Report: Data Dictionary Design Principles
Section three of our Defining Enterprise Data Terms for Campus report shares guidance and case studies on design principles to help promote the accessibility and usability of your enterprise data dictionary.
Deliver quality data to campus
Enable access to data based on role
Research Report: Data Security and Access Controls
In section one of our Delivering Quality Data to Campus report, explore tactics and case studies to develop and implement principled data sensitivity and role-based permissions data security and access controls.
Workshop: How to Engage Your Campus in a Security-First Culture
Contact your Strategic Leader to request a customized, expert-led session on how to improve your institution’s security posture, or check out takeaways and presentation decks from our previous roundtable on the subject.
Embed data quality accountability mechanisms
Research Report: Data Quality Accountability Measures
Section two of our Delivering Quality Data to Campus report provides tools to incorporate into data processes to ensure and continuously improve data quality.
Facilitate active data consumption
Research Report: Data User Feedback Mechanisms
Learn about tactics and mechanisms to improve data usage by engaging end users in section three of our Delivering Quality Data to Campus report.
Research Report: Increasing Consumption of Standardized Enterprise Data and Integrations
Uncover best practices and implementation steps to help increase campus uptake of data services.
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