NEEDS ASSESSMENT

Early planning, well-defined requirements, and a clear goal are key to the successful management and execution of any project. These elements form the basis of needs assessment. Our strategy builds on:

• Learning a client's history of providing goods and services
• Building on programmatic assets
• Defining complementary roles to coordinate operational activities
• Building distributed networks with decentralized decision-making systems
• Identifying the most vulnerable groups or processes
• Plans for capacity-building, institutional development, and administration
• Leveraging internal networks to quickly improve processes
• Prepositioning financial and human resources
• Restricting modifications to areas that add value
• Safeguarding the integrity of existing systems
• Delivering project objectives

Parsons depth of experience and drive to produce high-quality, low-cost services has led to the development of checklists. Their use confirms that a thorough investigation has been executed. Checklists also focus the efforts and reduce the cost of the assessment. Needs assessments checklists identify:

• Client requirements and preferences
• Outcomes or accomplishments
• Operations to be performed
• Human and infrastructure resources
• Usage patterns
• Staffing requirements, expertise, and knowledge
• User-friendly solutions
• Compatibility with existing systems
• Innovative, flexible, proven systems or solutions
• Staff, equipment, and product interfaces
• Standardized designs services, specifications and configurations equipment, software and hardware
• Cost-benefit analysis
• Cost reductions by leveraging experience and knowledge