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This depicts business entities impacted by the study. |
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| This depicts the physical locations of the business entities. |
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| These describe the major types of information required by the business processes that will be impacted. |
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| Technology Architecture Diagrams |
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| These show the interfaces between current business technologies. |
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| These depict the flow of process steps to completea a business function. |
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| These techniques are used to provide a simplistic visualization of the business area under consideration to understand the scope of the initiative. |
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| These techniques use data and statistical analysis to measure both current and future state process efficiency. |
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| This is to identify the conditions that initiate the occurrence of the undesired activity or state. |
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| Standard Project Management |
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| These are techniques to plan and manage the feasibility study activities. |
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| These techniques identify as many potential solutions as possible that will meet the requirements. |
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| Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) |
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| This is to provide a decomposition of each proposed solution as part of the description of each option. |
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| Business Process Reengineering |
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These techniques may be used by the study team to foster fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements. |
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| This is a diagramming technique that graphically summarizes the results of a brainstorming session, identtifying the causes of a specificed desirable outcome. |
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| These prove acceptance and forecast the demand in the marketplace. |
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| Technology Feasibility Assessment |
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This is to ensure the option is not beyond the organization's current limit in technology. |
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Business staff interviews to determine operational feasibility in the workplace. IT staff interviews to determine the operatational feasibility in the technical operating environment. Finance Staff and project manager interviews to estimate the cost of the alternative solution to ensure economic feasibility.
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| This is to build the highest risk component of a proposed solution to prove that solution is technically feasible. |
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| This is identification, assessment, ranking and risk response planning. |
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| This is to determine best-in-class practices. |
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| To examine the viability of market success of the solution. |
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| Environmental Impact Analysis |
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| To determine the likely environmental impacts of the proposed solution. |
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| Technology Advancement Analysis |
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| To examine the latest technical approaches to solving the business problem. |
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| Cost Vs. Benefit Analysis |
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| To determine the economic viability of each option. |
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Compare/Constrast analysis to decide whether to select a commerical-off-the-shelf product for part of or all of the solution option. |
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| Identification, assessment, ranking and issue response planning. |
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| To be used asa presentation device to help assess the relative value and cost of potential solutions. |
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| Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) |
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To help study teams make the best decision, capturing both qualitative and quaunitative aspects of the decision. The process is used to reduce these complex decisions to a series of simple comparisoins. Its power is that it provides a clear rationale for the decision. |
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| is also used to help study teams make the best decision by providing a statistical method to delineate the probablities of various outcomes. |
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| These are a matrix representation which can be used to communicate the logic of the decision for the recommended option. |
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| Strutured Problem Solving Techniques |
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| To provide mechanisms to receive and retrieve new information in a systematic manner, e.g., the explicit method. |
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| Data Gathering and Research Approaches |
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| To conduct a systematic investigation, including research development, testing, and evaluation, designed to develop or contribute to the knowledge about each option. |
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| Is also used to help study teams make the best decision by providing a mathematical description of the likelihood of a specific event. |
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| Techniques to Conduct the Current State Assessment |
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| Techniques to Plan the Feasibility Study |
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| Techniques to Identify Solution Options |
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| Techniques to Conduct the Analysis of Feasibility of each Option |
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Market Surveys Technology Feasiblity Assessment Interviews Prototyping Risk Indentification Benchmarking Analysis Competitive Analysis Environmental Impact Analysis Technology Advancement Analysis
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