Wooo! I never thought my dusty public sector bubble would ever be more rainbow than anyone else's 
Well of course, bad masterdata alsways leads to process hiccups or worse. If your IT27s are theoretically maintained centrally, then, ...*ahem*.. too bad 
If the employees are responsible for this themselves via ESS, you could block the Travel Scenarios and output a witty message "Have you hugged maintained your IT27 today yet?" ;-)