This documentation was created by the Reporting Working Group to provide interested parties the group’s charge, general plans for achieving those objectives, and other pertinent documentation related to the implementation of an Information Repository for the University of Missouri.
This spring the Task Force for Reporting Strategies provided the Vice-Presidents of the University of Missouri with a report containing recommendations on how the University could enhance current reporting capabilities to meet present and future reporting needs. The Vice-Presidents agreed to implement the recommendations included in the report, and have created this Reporting Working Group to oversee implementation of the recommendations. Specifically, the group has been charged by the Vice President of Academic Affairs Steve Lehmkuhle, on behalf of the University Vice Presidents, to:
Engage the general University community in the building of the Information Repository that will be the foundation of UM reporting for the foreseeable future.
Establish the processes needed to facilitate effective communications and feedback between Repository designers and end-users in the University community.
Implement specific processes for aligning technical staff, functional leaders and groups, and end-users for collaborative working relationships to accomplish the stated goals in the Task Force report, including the construction of the Information Repository.
Provide technical staff with specifications of logical data groupings to address basic requirements of majority of user information needs.
Communicate the interim priorities as identified in Appendix E of the Task Force on Reporting Strategies Recommendations to functional offices and Data Custodians for implementation.
Provide additional refinement and delineation of the resources needed, the discrete steps to be taken, and the priorities to follow to implement the long-term strategies identified by the Task Force.
Identify roles and responsibilities needed to assure a successful and ongoing information repository.
Create procedures and processes for constant quality improvement and enhancement of the Information Repository as well as provide the guidelines for its maintenance.
Establish criteria to measure the successful implementation of the Task Force’s recommendations.
Define and implement a data and information infrastructure that meets the needs of the University of Missouri faculty, administrators, students, and staff.
Not every need can always be addressed. Many plans look at meeting somewhere around 70% to 90% of the information needs of its users. While the plan should strive to meet the needs of as many as possible, it should not place unreasonable expectations on either technical or functional resources. Likewise, the technical skills of the users, how the data are used and the degree to which the data are integrated with other data, from internal administrative systems as well as external sources, all contribute complexities to meeting information and data needs.
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