Working out the legal entity costs more than the question itself.
Two legal entities share sites, staff and reporting lines. Anyone submitting a report first has to establish which company it applies to, who signs it and whether the same figure has already gone out from the other entity. That exercise starts again from scratch with every report.
2legal entitiesSites, staff and reporting lines are split across two companies.
1procedural questionA reporting obligation is due and first needs to be assigned.
3queriesGroup controlling, legal and site management settle the assignment among themselves.
1duplicate reportThe same indicator goes out from both entities until someone notices.
Three queries and a duplicate report disappear once the question already shows which entity reports and who signs, and coordination effort falls by 45%.
The 45% reduction in coordination effort is this agent's headline figure. Two legal entities, three queries and one duplicate report reflect a typical case in a hospital group; they were not counted.