In this light, consider that the IT Director has called you into his/ her office and described a major improvement project which should have important competitive benefits for the organization (note, if you are new to IT, simply substitute an organizational project familiar to you). The boss indicates that other departments within the organization have recently, or are even now, submitting budget requests for projects they also consider very important. In this light, all departments will be meeting with the corporate finance/ budget analysis committee shortly to review potential project funding. Your boss has decided to ask you to construct a two part response to this opportunity. First, he/ she desires to develop a very brief written budget request highlighting the project and its likely organizational contributions (to provide a basic frame of reference for the paper). Second, he/ she asks that you produce a follow-on major portion of your paper which highlights the several 360 degree influential communications issues that need to be addressed in order for this budget proposal to have the best chance of succeeding. Remember, the purpose of both items is to nail down this important piece of IT funding. In this case paper, once again simply use enough prospective project details to provide basic project outline…but, your primary focus is to be on the elements of persuasive communication.
you may wish to consider:
The essential elements of influential written and oral communication and noted in your readings as well as the Module’s One and Three Home Pages
How short, sweet and influential communication will compete well for IT budget dollars
How do you sway financial folks into appreciating the competitive value of this project and its potential contribution to the organization?s bottom line
The validity of Ocam’s Razor (please look this term up in Wikipedia)
Do not forget to provide some minimun detail regarding the actual project.
