The Manager's Pocket Guide to Mega Thinking and Planning

Costs and Consequences¹⁵ in the Context of Needs Assessment

An important bonus for using “need” as a noun is that you may derive a reasonable set of indicators for return on investment; estimating what you give and what you get. This is very useful, for you will be likely (if not now, soon) required to justify everything you use, spend, and deliver on the basis of the costs to you and the consequences of what you deliver.

It is difficult to take into account all of the possible costs and the various kinds of consequences, but you can estimate them closely enough to justify what you use, do, produce, and deliver, and to track your costs and returns.

Using an indicator of Mega level consequences.¹⁶ As noted earlier in Chapter 3, an estimate of ...