ACCA Strategic Professional · Advanced Performance Management · Technology and information systems
Orlan Health plans to feed real-time data from patient-monitoring devices and booking systems into its performance reporting. The CFO warns that the insights will be unreliable if the underlying data quality is poor. Which action most directly addresses the data quality risk specific to combining these sources?
Establishing data governance with common data definitions, validation rules at the point of capture and reconciliation between source systems is the most direct response. It addresses accuracy and consistency across combined sources, whereas faster servers, fewer KPIs or outsourced design leave poor-quality data unchanged.
- AEstablish data governance with common definitions, validation rules at capture and reconciliation between source systemsCorrect
- BBuy faster servers so that reports refresh more quickly
- CReduce the number of KPIs reported to the board to three
- DOutsource report design to the device supplier
Explanation
Combining different sources creates risks of inconsistent definitions, errors and mismatches. Data governance with standard definitions, validation and reconciliation tackles accuracy and consistency directly. Speed, fewer KPIs or outsourcing design do not correct faulty data, so output would remain unreliable.
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