
Transforming Business Reports as a Pathway to Data Governance
07/02/24 • 40 min
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Fred Rocha, former CIO at Coast Community College District and current senior consultant at Higher Digital, joins Joe Gottlieb to discuss how evolving business reporting can lead to better data governance in higher education. They explore common challenges institutions face, like siloed data and manual reporting processes, and offer insights on how to improve data management practices, especially vital in the era of SaaS solutions. They highlight both technical approaches and human factors in achieving effective data governance, emphasizing that it's a responsibility shared by all staff, not just IT departments.
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Fred Rocha, Senior Consultant, Higher Digital
Coast Community
College District
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Fred Rocha, former CIO at Coast Community College District and current senior consultant at Higher Digital, joins Joe Gottlieb to discuss how evolving business reporting can lead to better data governance in higher education. They explore common challenges institutions face, like siloed data and manual reporting processes, and offer insights on how to improve data management practices, especially vital in the era of SaaS solutions. They highlight both technical approaches and human factors in achieving effective data governance, emphasizing that it's a responsibility shared by all staff, not just IT departments.
References:
Fred Rocha, Senior Consultant, Higher Digital
Coast Community
College District
Engage with host, Joe Gottlieb, at [email protected] at any time!
Subscribe or follow TRANSFORMED wherever you listen, to get the latest episode when it drops and hear directly from leaders and innovators in higher ed tech and digital transformation best practices.
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TRANSFORMED - Transforming Business Reports as a Pathway to Data Governance
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The art of reporting is equal parts, understanding your data, but also knowing where that data resides. And you find that no institution creates the reports in the same, in the same way, or the same manner. There tends to be
Fred Rochasilos of data that exist outside of where people traditionally think that that information resides, which is usually the student information system. And there's this hug
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