Zusammenfassung der Ressource
5c- Feasiblity
- Financial
- Cost-benefit analysis takes place to
ensure best value for money
- Benefits
- Increased productivity per hour
- Savings in running costs (e.g. ink/electricity)
- Savings in staffing costs due to less staff required.
- Cheaper annual software lincences
- Sale of existing equipment or accomodation
- Costs
- Software development or purchase
- Hardware purchase
- Changes to accomodation
- Hardware and cabling installation
- Hiring of new staff (specialists)
- Training costs and time lost from normal jobs
- Cost of changeover period
- Personnel
- Intangible: Can't be measured or quantified
- Disadvantages
- Employees may not have expertise in new system
- Redundancies due to system may decrease morale
- Employees may not be willing to change work
practices or adapt to new working conditions
- Technical
- Disadvantages
- New software may require more memory,
disk space and higher processing
- Existing data may not be compatible
with new software. Disruptions when
transferring data may waste time.
- New software may not be compatible
with existing software
- Replacing existing software may be expensive
- Incompatible peripherals may need upgrading
- Technology to achieve wanted solution may not exist
- Development time may be long
- If parallel change over can't be used there
may be risks when switching systems
- Feasibility report: A report addressing whether it is feasible to
upgrade/install software or hardware based on many factors
- Company has to weigh up all costs and
benefits