Post on 25-May-2015
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Decision Making Techniques for Not for Profits
Kent J. McDonald@beyondreqs
Some Context
What is business value?
I’ll know it when I see
it
Justice Potter Stewart, concurring opinion in Jacobellis v. Ohio 378 U.S. 184 (1964), regarding possible obscenity in The Lovers.
Business Value in the For Profit World
Increase Revenue
Protect Revenue
Reduce Costs
In Alignment with Strategy
Business Value in Not for Profits
And in for profits, really…
Why do we want to know Business Value?
To make decisions!
Decision Making Techniques
Real Options
Purpose Based
Alignment
Decision Filters
Decision Filters
Simple rules to guide decision making
Disperse throughout the organization
Used for (among others) Strategy alignment Project Scoping Release Scoping Iteration Planning
Decision Filters can come from Goals
Increase funds available for T1D research by $2.5 Million by the end of FY
2014
Will this efficiently contribute to efforts
to raise funds for research for a cure for T1D in a donor centric
manner?
JDRF’s Research Decision FiltersWill this help cure type 1 diabetes and remove the disease from the lives of our loved ones?
Will this help treat type 1 diabetes allowing people to live better, healthier lives?
Will this help prevent type 1 diabetes from occurring in those most susceptible?
http://jdrf.org/research/
How do you use Decision Filters?
Will this efficiently contribute to efforts to raise funds for research for a cure for T1D in a donor centric manner?
Decision Filters on Projects
Project Decision Filter:Will this help us run a community based submission process?
Release Decision Filter:Is this needed to submit a session proposal or toreview a session proposal?
What are your Decision Filters?
Purpose Based Alignment Model
Purpose Based Alignment Model
Innovate,Create
Achieve and maintain parity,
Mimic, Simplify
Do we take this on?
Minimize/Eliminate
Applied to a Non Profit
EfficiencyDonor Centric
NetworkYouth AmbassadorTax DeductionWalkGalaBike RideSupport Group
Patients for TrialsResource NetworkReferral Network
Bag of HopeAdvocacy
Purpose and Decision Filters
Will this efficiently contribute to efforts to raise funds for
research for a cure for T1D in a donor centric manner?
EfficiencyDonor Centric
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The Billboard Test
Student Information System
Yes, it has been abbreviated to “SIS”
SIS “Requirements”
In search of a "Student Information System" that will be used to manage student and parent data, enable interactive communication between teachers and parents, as well as online enrollments. Requirements: Student/Parent Directory Staff Directory Calendar Online Enrollment Parent/Classroom Portal
How to Approach “SIS”?15:1 Student Teacher Ratio
“Personalized” lesson plans
Music Education w/ DSM Symphony
OTM
Athletics with local Middle School
EnrollmentFundraisingBook keepingCurriculum FacilitiesParent Communication
What do you think?
Requirements: Student/Parent
Directory Staff Directory Calendar Online Enrollment Parent/Classroom
Portal
Should the school go forward with SIS? If so, how?
Things to consider
Parity is mission critical. Purpose is not priority. Differentiating changes
over time. Distribute the decision
filters. Purpose shifts the
burden to behavior change.
Real Options
In a nutshell…
Option vs. Commitment
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When do you decide?
Bringing it back to Earth…
Real Options in ResearchN
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ComplicationsDiabetic Eye DiseasePredictive Diagnostics
Artificial PancreasLow Glucose SuspendTreat-to-Range
Artificial PancreasTreat-to-TargetMultihormone
EncapsulationImplantable Islets
Smart InsulinControl
PreventionSecondary Prevention
PreventionPrimary: Vaccine
ComplicationsComprehensivePrevention Therapy
RestorationNew Beta Cell GrowthProtected from Immune Attack
http://commitment-thebook.com/
Great, very readable resource about real options
If you remember nothing else…
Identify & share decision filters
Don’t treat parity activities as if they were differentiating
Know when to decide
Questions?Kent McDonaldkentjmcdonald@gmail.com@BeyondReqswww.beyondrequirements.com
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