Step by step guide to building a business case

1 Preparation

• get a business case template
• get a copy of your organisation's strategy
• read.....

2 audit your digital content

identify what you've got get generic list of risks make a list of risks for your digitial content/collection

3 audit your organisation's readiness (policy/strategy, skills/infrastructure)

get generic list of risks make a list of risks for your organisation

4 work out what you want to do

describe what you want to do (where you want to get to) describe resource needed - staff/infrastructure identify costs (see list of types of costs)

5 benefits

get a generic list of digitial preservation benefits make a list of benefits for your digital content/collection map those benefits to your organisation's strategy (prioritise benefits/work out what will appeal to your sponsor)