![]() In October 2011, IDC Chair Erin Gore gave a presentation (link is external) to CAN entitled “Making Institutional Data Count” which provided further progress on our initiative. In October 2010, the Berkeley NewsCenter published an article “ From ‘corner stores’ to an online data marketplace (link is external)” to communicate our current state, progress to date and desired outcome. The Council continues to support initiatives that advance the IDMG Roadmap recommendations. Throughout 2008 and early 2009, Berkeley conducted and analyzed a campus survey to learn more about how data is created, analyzed, accessed, and used, researched best practices for data management at other universities, and completed a pilot analysis on one data-driven campus process: thefunding of Temporary Academic Staff (TAS).Īt the IDC kickoff meeting, members identified a number of recentsuccesses in institutional data management and governance. ![]() How can we make UC Berkeley's institutional data easily accessible, reliable, consistent, and secure to support informed planning, decision-making, and communications across campus? In 2007, UC Berkeley launched the Institutional Data Management and Governance (IDMG) Initiative to address a critical challenge about our campus's institutional data – including data related to applicants, students, faculty, staff, alumni, and donor prospects – stated in the IDMG proposal as follows: ![]() Now, more than ever, campus leadership is calling for “one question, one answer.” Our IDMG website is intended to share information on ways we are making that dream a reality. If you have other suggestions or ideas, please share them by sending a message to (link sends e-mail) From communities of practice coming together to launch the IDMG Summer Series and Symposium to Operational Excellence’s investments in Cal Answers (our campus enterprise data warehouse tool) and CalPlanning (our campus budgeting tool), we are making major progress. With the support of IDC leadership and Berkeley staff, we are creating a culture of evidence at Cal and a data environment to support it. From the land of shadow systems, hours spent searching for data, and conversations focused on methodology - not content, Berkeley created a roadmap to transform data into information and information into insight. The goal of IDMG would be to make institutional data easily accessible, reliable, consistent and secure to support informed planning, decision-making, and communication across campus. Through the analogy of a well-stocked pantry, campus leaders charged to serve on the Institutional Data Council (IDC) began to envision what we could achieve through IDMG. They charged a team of talented chefs to tell them how to fix the problem, and they created the Institutional Data Management and Governance (IDMG) Initiative… Finally, one day, the leaders had had enough. Meanwhile, the leaders lingered on and on in the dining room, waiting for meals that arrived cold or without a crucial ingredient or never arrived at all. And all too often, some relatively common yet essential spice could not be located anywhere on campus at all. Other times, at the meat pantry, the staff were too busy preparing their own meals to provide just the right ingredient to finish a particular dish. Sometimes, when they arrived at the vegetable and grain pantry, the only person with the key was nowhere to be found. All day long, instead of cooking delicious meals, they ran to and from these outlying buildings, porting ingredients back and forth to their many cramped and ill-equipped kitchens. But in the Land of Cal, the vegetables and grains were stored on Oxford, the meats were housed on Hearst, and the spices could only be found on Bancroft. They were used to well-stocked pantries and kitchens. But even though they had assembled the most talented team of chefs in the land, their stomachs still grumbled. Every night, they dreamed of sumptuous feasts and then special ordered the elaborate dishes of their dreams. ![]() Every day, they went to the executive dining room and ordered the most flavorful appetizers, entrées and desserts on the menu. They wanted to make the best decisions for their people, but they were always hungry. Once upon a time, the Land of Cal was ruled by wise and benevolent leaders. ![]()
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