*4.2.1 Operational processes*

The first group of critical success factors deals with the operational processes involved in the collection, storage, analysis and security of the data, which are all highly interdependent. As data is a valuable good, its quality should be managed throughout its entire lifecycle. In practice this comes down to taking measures that maximize, whenever possible, the **automated capture** of data in **real-time**, directly from its **original source**. This minimizes the risk of errors introduced by manual data entry, which can result in typo's, inaccuracies, missing values, erroneous data
