Building a Vision for Data Culture and Decision Support Services at Virginia Tech
Embracing a value-focused data culture and establishing a decision support services team to drive data-informed decisions at Virginia Tech. This vision includes motivation beyond boundaries, a new funding model, and a strategic approach towards generating business value and promoting transparency through data strategy, operationalization, and organizational integration. The progress so far showcases the transformational impact of the University DataCommons in resource management and strategic planning.
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Embracing a value-focused data culture and building a decision support services team to support data informed decisions vision at Virginia Tech ABHAY JOSHI JU L Y 2 9 , 2 0 1 9
01 Motivation
Motivation Beyond Boundaries 2047 Vision New funding model to Offset the public disinvestment in higher education Make investments in new initiatives Incremental Budgeting Performance and Incentive Based Budget (PIBB)
02 Approach
Approach - Purpose Generate business value Promote transparency Mid to Long-term Information consumers: All types Service: Strategic and self-service needs Aligned with Institutional goals and strategies
Approach - Data Strategy Business value focused Integrate data and eliminate silos - VT Data Lake Standardized definitions, business catalog, and formal data governance structures Actionable information and insights made easily accessible University DataCommons (UDC)
Approach - Operationalization Collaborative In-house development Agile development (Iterative) Open source tools Development platform that supports agility, reliability, scalability, efficiency, and security needs AWS Cloud
Approach - Organization/People Integrate Decision Support Services , IR, and A&E Invest in building analytic capacity in-house Add new talent with advanced analytics skills Upskill the exiting talent Data liaison model Create an Agile working culture
Progress so far University DataCommons (UDC) Transformational Differentiating Systematic Opportunistic Basic Resource Management - Budget Enrollment Management Strategic Planning Metrics Source: Maturity Model for Data and Analytics, 2017 Gartner, Inc
03 Enterprise Data Platform
UDC 3.0 VT - University DataCommons (UDC) https://udc.ads.vt.edu/
