Glossary

Purposeful data

The rule requiring every captured data item to declare its function: execute, decide, comply, evidence, measure or integrate.

The rule requiring every captured data item to declare its function: execute, decide, comply, evidence, measure or integrate. Data serving none of these purposes should be challenged before being requested from a user.

The rule has a valuable side effect: forms get shorter. Requiring each field to declare what it is for surfaces the ones that have been captured for years without anyone ever reading them.

Related terms

Data as a business asset

The view of data as a resource that enables operating, deciding, controlling, measuring and learning, and which therefore demands its own policies, roles and management standards, like any…

Data quality

The degree to which data are accurate, complete, consistent, timely, valid and unique.

Mandatory by state

A rule defining which data are required at each point of the process, rather than demanding everything up front.