espida - helping you make a business case when there are no immediate financial benefits

Today I heard a brief and fairly convincing overview about "espida" by James Currall of Glasgow University about the espida Project, a recently completed JISC project. According to James, and the espida web site, espida provides a method to "make business cases for proposals that may not necessarily offer immediate financial benefit to an organisation, but rather bring benefit in more intangible spheres". Originally espida was developed to be used within the area of digital resource management; but it has potential for far wider application (decision making, performance measurement, change management), to such an extent that JISC is now requiring the use of espida by bidders in some of its current project calls.