Attachment: IT Governance Book Figure 54: The Effect of Prevention on Repair and Detection Costs

It is obviously not an easy task to find the right balance between reactive repair and proactive prevention measures. Another aspect of this diagram is based on the question of how much data quality is needed for a company to do business. It is not possible to achieve 100 percent quality of data, simply because there are no objective measures, and companies do not have unlimited resources to fund 100 percent data-quality initiatives.