Data Strategy Worksheet: Component Typical Questions
Data Strategy Worksheet: Component Typical Questions
Data Strategy Worksheet: Component Typical Questions
This worksheet contains a set of questions that can be used to build and review your data strategy to align with your organization’s key
performance metrics or a family of measures for a specific improvement effort. Not all questions need to be answered for each data point or
measure; use this as a guide to highlight potential data integrity and data management issues.
Data Quality • What validity issues are there with the required data?
• Availability, accuracy, consistency, timeliness?
• What data fixes are required?
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Analysis • What information and tools are required to perform the analysis?
• What skills are required to understand the data?
• What actions will result from the analysis? What are the criteria for those actions?
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Access • What are the requirements to make the right data available to the right people at the right time?
• Who are the data stakeholders and what are their data and reporting needs?
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Versioning and • If data is regularly updated, what data changes do you need to capture?
Retention • How do you track what version you are using?
• How long do you keep data? When do you archive it?
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