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I think you’ve hit on a very important area of implementation planning. Being able to objectively categorize items in this manner is critical in achieving timeline and budgetary objectives. We have found that great enthusiasm is often the result of project kick-offs and related meetings and when people start working with our software they find all sorts of great new ideas. But to your points, some of the great new ideas are best left to a future phase.

A couple of additional ways to identify a potentially high priority item:

1) Does it create an order of magnitude improvement in process efficiency (e.g. can you find a way to increase volume several fold without doing the same with staff hours devoted to that process)

2) Does the item impact the financial integration between the AMS and the GL system of choice?

3) Does the item impact the member-facing experience on the web?

These are a few additional methods of identifying areas that may be of high priority depending on the organizations objectives. Thanks for raising this important topic.

Amith Nagarajan

Aptify Corporation

http://www.aptify.com