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Needs assessments and business case analysis for technology investment decisions.
As budgets get tighter, elected officials and governing boards are requiring CEOs and CIOs to undertake a rigorous business case analysis to justify technology investment decisions. This article presents a step-by-step methodology that has been developed and used by GFOA in its needs assessment consulting projects.
Concerns about the "millennium bug" led to a frenzy of financial system replacement activity across the state and local government landscape before 2000. Many governments concluded that rewriting and editing programming code for antiquated software packages was a cost that could never be recouped. Instead of "patching" existing systems, many ...
- THINKING OF RECREATION NEEDS ASSESSMENTS.(recreation departments: collecting...
- Magazine article from: Parks & Recreation Mitra, Amanda May 1, 2001 700+ words
...rarely have the expertise to do needs assessments; planning firms are often excellent...required to do sound and scientific needs assessments. Therefore, agencies often resort to outsourcing needs assessments to professionals experienced...
- SkillSoft and SHL Group plc to Develop Customized Needs Assessments for...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 2, 2000 700+ words
...will develop customized learning needs assessments which will be integrated with SkillSoft...business training courses. The learning needs assessments will address two critical skills...prioritized by the learner. The learning needs assessments and subsequent training will be ...
- Elderly suffering because of `inefficient' needs assessments
- Newspaper article from: The Press June 13, 1996 700+ words
...Hospitals' Association executive director Lynn Irving said needs assessments were ``inaccurate, inefficient, and incompetent...the needs assessment process. ``We are still getting needs assessments in some areas where the carer is not even consulted...
- Housing needs assessments.(Funding Opportunities)
- Magazine article from: Native American Report August 1, 2005 700+ words
Housing Needs Assessments: Noncompetitive grants of up to $10,000 each are being offered to the eight Regional Indian Housing Associations by the National...
- 88% of pharmaceutical companies use thought leaders for needs assessments.
- Newspaper article from: Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week May 9, 2004 700+ words
...concepts. For instance, 88% of the participating companies rely on regional and national opinion leaders when conducting needs assessments. Cutting Edge Information released findings from its report, "Managing Key Opinion Leader Relationships." The report...
- New Book from Neal-Schuman Helps You Perform Needs Assessments...
- Magazine article from: Computers in Libraries May 1, 2001 700+ words
...with Disk, by Lynn Westbrook (ISBN: 1-55570-388-7, $75). Since most libraries don't carry out information needs assessments unless they can afford a consultant, this handbook includes the essential theories, tools, and techniques that library...
- 88% of Companies Use Regional Thought Leaders for Needs Assessments.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 9, 2004 700+ words
...concepts. For instance, 88% of the participating companies rely on regional and national opinion leaders when conducting needs assessments. Earlier today, Cutting Edge Information released findings from its groundbreaking report, "Managing Key Opinion Leader...
- Lower population projections could reduce housing strain. (Solimar...
- Newspaper article from: California Planning & Development Report Williamson, Christopher March 1, 2002 700+ words
Population projections beget households, households beget units and units beget Regional Housing Needs Assessments (RHNA) and those infamous housing elements. The current round of housing elements is based on the state Department of Finance...
Source: HighBeam Research, Needs assessments and business case analysis for technology...