Benefits Management Toolkit

This website attempts to provide a suite of Benefits Realisation Management resources which can be used to bring innovative use of open-source developments to market. The toolkit is intended to help influence the best return on investment of previous clinician and practitioner time as well as patient and service user engagement.

Open source innovation means that organisations and individuals are contributing to a collaboration network for the greater good. It is therefore crucial that contributions are recognised. A Benefits Management Toolkit will help identify the advantages and costs to each contributor whilst simultaneously ensuring that appropriate reward can be made and appropriate projects funded.

What is in the Toolkit

A benefits management toolkit contains i) general principles about how to go about designing, implementing, and achieving the realisation of benefits, and ii) appropriate templates and step-by-step guides to make it easy for practitioners to deliver benefits.

Many of the projects funded by the Apperta Foundation are small, and the project manager does not have time to learn about Benefits Realisation Management. The toolkit needs to take them by the hand and guide them through the process.

However this toolkit is not detailed – it is for a busy professional juggling project management alongside a clinical or administration job.  It provides enough information for appropriate reporting and realisation of benefits for small projects, and is specifically tailored to the environment of Open Source software in Health and Care.