Start Smart with Data: 10 Steps for Success - Cara Giacomini, EDUCAUSE Review

Within higher education IT departments are well-established partners in the use of business intelligence and analytics to provide enterprise-level data, to support institutional research, and, increasingly, to measure student success. Maturity of data governance, analytical methods, and practices in these areas has increased exponentially over the past decade or more. In contrast, incorporation of data into the decision-making of the IT department itself, as well as the operations of other administrative units, has typically been less extensive. Currently, there is a growing desire for data-informed decision making to permeate all of aspects of higher education. Start smart and you will end up with more than a pretty chart—you will be well on your way to integrating data into the strategic core of your work. https://er.educause.edu/blogs/2018/12/start-smart-with-data-10-steps-for-success