This document discusses opening up an organization's data to external stakeholders. It identifies potential data sources like students, staff, governors, parents, employers, and funding bodies. Benefits include delegating responsibility, self-cleansing data, knowledge sharing, problem solving and collaboration. However, issues include maintaining control, preventing unplanned leaks, legal compliance, loss of competitive advantage, ensuring transparency and data accuracy. The document suggests easing use, cleansing data integrity, involving users, and considering external data sources for environmental scanning, benchmarking and comparison tools.

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2. Background
 There is a growing appetite for providing
information to external bodies and stakeholders
 Opening up your data lifeline
 What should we collect what could we share?
 Should we do it or not? (consequences)
 Becoming ‘agile’

3. The temptation is to cling on to
everything!

4. Who and What Data sources
 Students (VLE, Moodle, ILP, ePortfolio)
 Staff (Payroll, CPD… )
 Governors (Finance)
 Parents (Learner records, reports)
 Employers (Learner records)
 Funding bodies (ILR etc)
 The Public (Performance, FOI)
 IT/MIS (Everything?)
 Potential students and staff
 Who else?

5. Benefits
 Some delegation of responsibility possible
 Self- cleansing data
 Knowledge sharing
 Problem solving
 Collaboration

6. Issues
 Maintaining control
 Unplanned data leaks
 Legal ( DPA, FOI)
 Loss of competitive advantage
 Transparency
 Accuracy, consistency - clean data
 Firewalls and security
 Boundaries

7. Making it happen
Data and application
 Ease of use
 Data cleansing and integrity
User
 Value to user
 Involve them!

8. Turning the tables!
 External sources of data – environmental scanning
 Statistics
 Benchmarking
 Comparison tools
 Amazon style targeting?

9. Thank you!
Stuart Jones
stuart.jones@rsc-em.ac.uk
07595119434
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