Enterprise Intelligence
To support better institutional decision-making
Enterprise intelligence (generally referred to as business intelligence in business settings) aims to support better institutional decision-making. Enterprise intelligence (EI) uses technologies, processes, and applications to analyze mostly internal, structured data generated by enterprise-wide transactional systems and business processes.
In recent years, the education community has witnessed increased interest in EI. EI in education refers to systematically collecting and analyzing various types of data to guide a range of decisions to help improve the success of students and institutions. Notions of EI in education are modeled on successful practices from industry and manufacturing, such as Total Quality Management, Organizational Learning, Continuous Improvement and Six Sigma, which emphasize that organizational performance and improvement is enhanced by responsiveness to various types of data.
The Enterprise Intelligence Responsibility Team
Having identified myriad ways enterprise intelligence can benefit Prescott College, College leadership established the Enterprise Intelligence Responsibility Team in February 2011. The EI Responsibility Team seeks to implement a coordinated and strategic approach to enterprise intelligence at Prescott College. The goal is to provide College administration, faculty, department leadership and staff with a holistic understanding of EI technologies to develop historical, current, and predictive views of College operations.
Statement of Purpose
The EI Responsibility Team exists to advance collection, analysis and use of enterprise intelligence at the College by sponsoring projects that:
- Have a broad impact across the College
- Are aligned with and advance College strategic objectives
- Require specialized knowledge and participation from more than one functional area
- The Team identifies as high priority, high value initiatives
- Provide data for mandated reporting requirements
- Provide data and insight for internal institutional reporting requirements
- Reengineer College processes for greater operational efficiency, to better serve constituents and to provide better operational oversight
- Provide historical, current, and predictive views of College operations to inform department and institutional decisions
- Allow the College to plan, organize and direct resources within a well-defined timeline to help overcome process and functional single points of failure
The Team will have authority to recommend new policy and procedures and to recommend revisions to existing policies and procedures necessary to advance enterprise intelligence and promote institutional memory. As a significant set of budget authorities, the Team will collaboratively wield their budget resources to fund projects that meet the criteria defined above. Each project will have its own budget line within the project management system to track expenses and provide financial metrics to gauge return on investment.
The EI Responsibility Team will also advance as a long term objective (3-5 years) the development of a College data warehouse. The data warehouse will collect data; mostly transactional data from multiple data sources into a central data location (the data warehouse) and later report those data, generally in an aggregated way, to business users at the College.
EI Responsibility Team Members
The EI Responsibility team includes members with broad representation across College departments and offices. EI Responsibility Team members are charged to propose, review, evaluate, prioritize, recommend funding, and evaluate College-wide EI projects, especially those related to College data, data systems, institutional research, information technology and process improvement.
For further information please contact:
Jordan Amerman
Director of Enterprise & Business Technology
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