Impact Calculator Guidance Notes

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Impact Calculator About the Impact Calculator The aim of the Impact Calculator is to assist in measuring the actual impact of a change initiative. Impact in this instance can be defined as a comparison of the measurable benefits, generally efficiency savings or gains brought about by a change initiative, and the costs incurred by implementing it. The Impact Calculator supports the collation of information relating to measurable benefits that can be quantified in both monetary and non-monetary terms. The Impact Calculator uses process redesign as its focus for measuring the impact of a change initiative. The introduction of a new student record system, a move to the centralised storage of records, or a move to use collaborative tools in the workplace, are different examples of change initiatives that can occur within an institution. Although these examples are very different they will all, to varying degrees, have an effect on the administrative processes within the institution. Focusing on the changes in these processes provides a mechanism for identifying the impact that such change initiatives have on the institution, whilst also placing the changes in its appropriate broader institutional context.

Impact Calculator

The impact of a change initiative can be experienced by the institution in a number of ways: for example reduced staff costs, reduced consumables costs, or reduced storage costs. Here a methodology of deconstructing the process before and after the change initiative has occurred provides a systematic way of identifying the different ways and degrees that the change impacts on the institution. Deconstructing the process and comparing the before and after states assists in determining individual discrete areas of change. These areas can then be assessed for their potential for measurement. However, without a consideration of the costs incurred to achieve the benefit realised it is impossible to fully appreciate their significance, so the Impact Calculator allows you to record costs too. The Impact Calculator provides a template of prompts to assist in identifying and recording the efficiency savings and costs of a process redesign. The Impact Calculator compares ‘benchmark’ information which is defined as the performance of the process before the change has taken place (or the ‘as is’ process described in the tool), and compares this with the performance of the process after the change has taken place (or the ‘to be’ process), to calculate the efficiency savings of the process redesign. As mentioned


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