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And Justice for All: Designing Your Business Case for Integrating Justice Information



1. Getting ready: Data gathering & analysis

Checklist of analysis tasks and results

As each of the following analyses is defined, record who is responsible for conducting it and a due date. When it is complete, enter a short description of the result


Analysis needed
 
Responsible person
 
Due date
 
Brief description of result
 
Business Process
What is the business process map of your current justice system?
What are the problem areas from a system-wide perspective?
What are the likely targets for change?
 
   
Goals and approach to meeting them
How do we want performance to improve?
What changes are needed in policies, processes, and practices to achieve these performance goals?
 
   
Infrastructure and technology
What is the current technical infrastructure of each relevant agency?
What information technology projects are underway right now in each agency or system-wide?
 
   
Risks and mitigation
What are the risks of changing from the current process?
How do we avoid, mitigate, or address them?
 
   
Costs and resources
What are the costs of achieving key goals and who will cover them?
What/who can we leverage for more funding, political support, or economies of scale?
 
   
Alternatives
What are some alternative approaches and their pros and cons?
 
   
Support
Who needs to support our integration initiative and what are their concerns?
What do we want them to do? Who is or could be the "champion" and how do we engage them?
Who is likely to oppose this initiative and why?