Better Together: A Partnership Between IT and Institutional Research

Session Abstract: This presentation outlines how Portland State University's Business Intelligence (BI) and Institutional Research (IR) teams foster genial, authentic collaboration. Partnering together to transform how data is managed and utilized across the organization.

The BI team brings a technical architectural perspective to the governance discussion. As neutral facilitators from the Office of Information Technology they highlight data flow, quality issues and propose standardized ways of defining metrics that a single department may not consider. The IR team possesses a deep knowledge of institutional data; applying various applications of study to ensure accuracy in meeting official agency standards for reporting.

The results are significant: enhanced data integrity, well defined measures, a unified approach and increased efficiency across the institution. We will provide examples of jointly-developed dashboards and other projects to demonstrate the results.

Keywords: Cross-Divisional Collaboration, Data Management, Data Governance