Why you are doing this - Project Purpose

Possible Drivers for Change
The key thing to ensure a successful project is that you solve the problem that you started with. This is the primary benefit, the project purpose. All other benefits are secondary - nice to have and additional.
So what could drive your project?

Obviously you will have to fill in the detail, but possibilities include:
efficiency savings (cash constraint especially reallocation of budgets. May also be driven by demographic change e.g. reduction or increase in the number of people expected to use a given service)
government policy (new requirement or increased focus on a service)
service user safety concerns (perhaps following a significant incident or near miss)
opportunity (perhaps someone has heard of a new procedure or care pathway and wants to test its feasibility in your setting)
staff skills and competences, new availability or no longer available (a staff member with a special interest opens an opportunity for a new way of working, for example PwSI (Practitioner with Special Interest) could deliver the service at home rather than as day care)
service user request
facilities either newly available (e.g. LIFT) or not (lease expiring)
To be a success you must solve the primary problem; all other benefits help with the business case, the investment case and are genuine benefits.
What about some of the resources that help at this stage?

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