A municipality wants vendors, facilities, and business services all in year-one IRM scope without ranking which populations matter most. What approach should the team recommend?
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Short Explanation
Trying to govern vendors, plants, and every business service on day one is like remodeling every floor before the foundation cures. Pick the populations where a miss hurts most—public safety apps, regulated data, critical plants—and phase the rest. Prioritized scope beats a year-one everything-bagel.
Full Explanation
Year-one implementations should sequence entity populations by materiality: regulatory exposure, service criticality, and audit demand. Attempting vendors, facilities, and all business services simultaneously overwhelms ownership, data quality, and testing capacity. Phased, risk-based prioritization still allows a complete long-term architecture while delivering credible scoped results early. Unfiltered mega-types and universal day-one inclusion are common failure modes.