To realize and be consistent with the UC IT Principle - "Data are critical institutional assets" ( http://www.oit.uci.edu/consolidation/committee/uci-it-principles.php ), campus data management and governance need to be established. While non exist today, a incremental improvement can be achieved by leveraging the consolidation to look at data more comprehensively than previously possible. Data Warehousing and Decision support will become most effective once this improvement is made. In order to start this process, the following steps will be needed:
1) An assessment of where various IT groups are today with respect to data management
People
- Data governance has executive-level sponsorship with direct CIO and Executive Leadership support. Executive-level decision-makers view data as a strategic asset. Management understands and appreciates the role of data governance – and commits personnel and resources.
- Business users take an active role in data strategy and delivery
- Data stewards emerge as the primary implementers of data management strategy and work directly with cross-functional teams to enact data quality standards
- A data quality or data governance group works directly with data stewards, application developers and database administrators
- Organization has "zero defect" policies for data collection and management
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