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 existent today, a an 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 madedata management improvement is implemented and in reality will be difficult to achieve without it. 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
- An identification of core campus systems that produce data of common interest and the respective data owning department(s), individuals, and data stewards.
- An assessment of the data management practices and data quality of the systems.
- Entry of common data attribute names and descriptions into a campus data dictionary.
- A data flow diagram per subject or data context of where the data is transmitted to and how often.
- An assessment of what it means to implement a "zero data defect" policy for this data set.
The maturity model describes the following areas:
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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