Not all of the aforementioned steps may be necessary,
depending upon the impact; however, documenting the
impact is always required. (Remember that documenting
impact is a pivotal check and balance point in the decision
making process.) If you don’t write down a decision’s
potential impact, then you are inappropriately weighting
your own memory and intuition as the key determinates
for further evaluation. Writing the impact down forces
one to think critically and iteratively. By revisiting the
documented impact as analysis progresses, new impacts
may be realized that were not part of the initial assessment.
Conversely, documenting impacts identified in the early
stages of assessment greatly reduce the chances for those
initial impacts to be forgotten as the evaluation process
progresses.
Restructure the intangibles with quantification and
modeling. The goal is to reorient t
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