3. The essentials of opportunity and feasibility analyses

3.1 Opportunity studies

Opportunity studies are based on :

• existing processes and aim to transform the organization through "transformation workshops" to highlight business opportunities;

• analyses based on a critical examination of the existing situation ("technical" or "business" criticism);

• a spider-like representation to highlight the "least used" and "most used" processes;

• results that identify processes "to be modified" and more generally "to be transformed" by adding new value(s) and new directions for innovation (i.e. new technologies and their use).

Among the basic parameters for choosing between...