Project Effort – Value evaluation Tool

This is fun tool from the Forrester Website that is based upon the book, Empowered. In Empowered, the authors demonstrate how companies can successfully transform their business through the employees called HEROes (highly empowered and resourceful operatives). But they do not stop with just employees they also share ideas on how to leverage empowered customers. This is a great addition to co-author Josh Bernoff’s last book, Groundswell

From Forrester about the tool:

Before starting or supporting a HERO project, you need to determine if its value is in line with the effort required. HERO Project Effort-Value Evaluation tool can help. Answer this series of questions, and the results will help you make an informed decision whether or not to proceed. The first set of questions, the effort questions, show where you’ll encounter resistance, not just in gathering resources and budget, but in parts of the company that may need to be brought in, like IT, PR, or Legal. The second set, the value questions, help to identify the exact benefits you’re seeking. Based on these two scores, you can evaluate your project in context and determine whether its value exceeds the effort.

I removed the tool from the post. You can find it here at Forrester: http://www.forrester.com/empowered/tools.html.

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