Reassess purpose and benefits against alternatives: What action is required?
Approval must weigh purpose and benefits against alternatives, mitigation, and residual environmental impacts.
The question
An energy company’s revised maintenance model improves failure prediction but requires substantially more computation and water-intensive cooling. Maintenance leaders report benefits, while sustainability stakeholders report material resource impacts. Before approving the revised model, the decision record must explicitly reassess the maintenance purpose and resulting benefits as well as environmental consequences. What action is required?
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- Retain the model with the highest predictive accuracy.Accuracy matters, but it cannot alone decide a tradeoff involving material environmental impacts.
- Compare alternatives, mitigation costs, and residual environmental impacts.These comparisons are necessary, but this option does not require the explicit reassessment of purpose and benefits stated in the stem.
- Record the resource concern for later governance review.Recording the concern is useful, but postponing treatment leaves a known material impact outside the approval decision.
- Reassess purpose and benefits against alternatives, mitigation costs, and residual resource impacts before approval. ✓Approval should weigh the system’s purpose and benefits against feasible alternatives, mitigation costs, and remaining computation and water impacts.
The trap
Do not treat accuracy as sufficient when deployment creates material environmental consequences. How to remember it
Approval must weigh purpose and benefits against alternatives, mitigation, and residual environmental impacts.
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