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TRANSFORMING HIGHER EDUCATION THROUGH DATA CULTURE & CAPABILITIES. 

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ABOUT US

DATA INSIGHTS ARE A MUST TO SURVIVE AND THRIVE IN TODAY'S COMPETITIVE HIGHER ED MARKETPLACE  

Higher Education leaders know their need for data and information is timely and profound: they must gain confident and actionable insights from data to improve student outcomes, attract and retain faculty and staff, improve financial performance, and achieve maximum efficiency with resources, and be proactive and accountable with accreditors and the public.

YOUR ROADMAP TO ACHIEVEMENT

Cronin Data Advisors engages with university and college executives, senior leaders, and operational managers to develop and ensure data strategy is clear and compelling, data fluency is positive and pervasive, subject matter experts collaborate in governing data, and that the data ecosystem is analytics- and AI-ready.

Having the right data (scope and breadth) 
Getting your data right (multi-dimensional data quality) 
Empowering people in their roles with decision rights 
Expertise and expectations to bring data to bear on every challenge
Confidence with investments and expected returns

OUR SERVICES

DATA STRATEGY

Data Strategy is something of a misnomer because institutional mission and strategy are the penultimate objectives. Data strategy must align in service to the institution's most important and urgent directions.

Aligning data to support integrative planning, strategic ambitions, and operational excellence through appropriate roles, capabilities, and action. 

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  • Align strategic plan with data strategy  

  • Policy development  

  • Assess investment needs 

  • Augment/interim data leadership (Chief Data Officer) 

  • Organizational alignment

Ensuring role-appropriate data fluency among stakeholders, driving a leadership culture that habitually asks "what do the data tell us." 

Data fluency – rather than literacy – conveys confidence, momentum, and nimbleness in making sense of data and information, leading to bold and transformative decisions.

  • Transform executive and management culture

  • Assess current state  

  • Practical case studies  

  • Guided decisions  

  • Privacy and Security  

  • Ethics and Responsible Use 

  • Understanding data  

  • Forming good questions

DATA FLUENCY

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COLLABORATIVE GOVERNANCE

Empowering in-house subject matter experts, promoting good stewardship, and making impactful decisions about data.

Good governance means beneficial stewardship, making actionable decisions, and launching practical initiatives to coordinate activities that improve efficiency and data accuracy.

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  • Craft position descriptions, roles and responsibilities 

  • Draft procedures and charters  

  • Orient and train Data Trustees & Data Stewards 

  • Data quality initiatives 

  • Master data management 

  • Assess existing structures and practices  

  • Develop initiatives and projects  

  • Aligning data governance to IT governance  

ANALYTICS & AI CAPABLE

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Power beyond mandatory reporting to achieve actionable insights that are informed by reliable data and readily available through secure self-service.

Needs are many but the most compelling needs must come first, and the design and deployment of a singular platform is critical to ensure correct and consistent results.

  • Assess IT and data ecosystem  

  • Analytics methodology  

  • Define desired future state & capabilities  

  • Data integrations planning  

  • RFP preparation  

  • Contract reviews  

  • Vendor/partner assessments  

  • Project management  

  • Self-service enablement

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