Research Analytics & Business Intelligence
Focuses on the use of data to understand the past, present, and future of an organization’s research enterprise. Leaders in research administration want to have a good understanding of the activity in their organizations to assist with strategic planning, hiring decisions, trends and more. Data helps them answer those questions and helps predict strategic opportunities for future investment. Topics include the methods and apps to create online self-service portals, dashboards, analytic reports and other tools, leveraging data sources that are both internal and external to the institution (such as the NSF Higher Education Research and Development Survey [HERD] data). The goal is to provide meaningful analysis, and identify common practices in data analysis for research administration to tell the story and move the business forward in sustainable ways.