Create and Manage
a Data Strategy Plan

Create and Manage a Data Strategy Plan

Once a coach has assessed their team and resources, they’ll want to keep the team’s strengths, weaknesses, and goals in mind as they develop a plan for the Olympic competition. How can the team build on strengths? Overcome weaknesses? What support do they need to do so? What goals does the coach think the team can accomplish? And how will they, along with other stakeholders, support the team in reaching those goals?

This is the goal of the plays in Create and Manage a Data Strategy Plan. These plays help the data champion collaborate with other stakeholders to develop a vision and set goals for how analytics can support the institution’s goals and priorities—and how they can track their progress along the way.

Team Plays

The Joint Statement on Analytics asserted that “analytics is a team sport.” Three plays that are repeated throughout the playbook emphasize and provide guidance for this.

The Assemble and Manage Teams for Analytics Initiatives play provides guidance to data champions, and perhaps executive sponsors, as they build the right teams for various analytics initiatives. This play can be conducted multiple times—for different analytics efforts or as needed with existing efforts.

The Executive Sponsor Checklist details the role of a senior leader before, during, and after analytics strategies or efforts.

Explore Typical Analytics Job Responsibilities is a resource for data and analytics positions in higher education.

Plays

Set a Vision for Analytics

Develop an Analytics Strategy Road Map

Generate Buy-In for a Data Product

The Change With Analytics Playbook currently has 16 plays in total with three in the Create and Manage a Data Strategy Plan section. Although these plays can help an institution make significant progress, there is other work to be done that is currently beyond the scope of this playbook.

We encourage you to join our community in continuing the development of the playbook. Please reach out to us (info@changewithanalytics.com) with suggestions for plays that should be added, alternate approaches to plays that have worked for your institutions, and examples of how these efforts have had propelled your efforts to support students and fulfill your college or university’s mission.