About the Impact Calculator
What is an Impact Calculator?
This freely-available downloadable tool includes the means by which any organisation considering or currently engaged in an initiative to improve the management of a change initiative can capture and measure three distinct sets of data:
- performance information before and after completion of the initiative
- costs of implementation
- an accurate calculation of its measurable benefits to be achieved that can be quantified in both monetary and non-monetary terms
How it works...
A summary of each of the main sections and their function is provided below:
- Section 1 - Details of the business process subject to a change initiative
- Section 2.1 - Area of change that is being used to derive the measurable benefit
- Section 2.2 - Measurements relating to the performance of the identified benefits
- Section 2.3 - Summary of metrics and performance
- Section 3 - Information relating to the costs of implementing and maintaining the change initiative
- Section 4 - The impact of the change initiative
Full guidance notes are available to download as a PDF.
Analysis
We have been able to use the download statistics and survey responses to build up a picture of how the Impact Calculator is being used. Using Tableau with data from October 2009 to September 2011, we can show the geographical spread of downloads, the different reasons why people have downloaded the tool, and the sectors they work in.
