Understand context - fit to organisation's mission
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'The first question to ask is 'why am I writing a business case?
External drivers/Wider landscape:
- Digital society
- Economic climate, ROI.
- Changing user expectations
- Mandates/legal
- Compliance with funder policies
- Ethical
- Trust: importance of DP to institutional reputation e.g. for transparency of research results, longer term availability of collections
- Increase in digital deposits (measurable), legal mandates,
- Role/Mission: What do we do? What are we here to do? How does DP fit in?
- Competitive parity: how do we compare?
Internal drivers:
- Role/Mission: What do we do? What are we here to do? How does DP fit in?
- Fit with org strategy, library wide programmes
- How is DP fundamental to organisational activity
- Look at DP background in organisation. Are we followers or leaders?
- Mandate/ institutional policies