Courtesy of our friends at Grantium, we can post all three presentations [PDF] that were given at a Grantium-sponsored event last week about "Cost/Benefit Analysis of Enterprise Grants Management". The presenters were:
- Sandy Swab, Grants Consultant, talked about The Drivers for Grants in the Enterprise
- I spoke about Build, Buy, Upgrade, or...?, describing the options for implementing a grants management system
- Peter Andrews, CEO of Grantium, presented Enterprise Grants Management Value Proposition
There's some good data here for anyone looking at modernizing a grants management enterprise with IT, including rough costs for implementation and maintenance, and how those investments can pay off for any organization.
I'd encourage you to post them either via SlideShare or Splashcast. Although both tools allow you to embed the slideshow in your blog, SlideShare gives you the power to enable downloading the original file.
Posted by: Rob | May 03, 2007 at 07:37
There are likely a few types of analysis that one could conduct. CBA is one. I mentioned to you that when working for a grantee, I actually conducted a simple Multi-Attribute Utility Analysis (MAUT), which I think was worthwhile to drive people to make a decision.
Posted by: Rob | May 03, 2007 at 08:25
I posted my portion of my slides on Slideshare (see here) but it's up to Grantium to post the complete deck. :-)
On MAUT or CBA: The key objective, I think, is to operate and make decisions based on facts and not conjecture. Too many IT decisions are driven my heresay, and this is especially rife in grants management.
Posted by: Dave | May 03, 2007 at 08:55