|
 FUMSI Report: Product Evaluation Report and Tool Kit
April 2007
Product evaluations can be extremely time-consuming, making even free trials a potentially costly project. Furthermore, it's essential to understand prior to the trial what a user's or organisation's needs are, vis-a-vis that product. Despite the fact that a systematic approach to trialling products is a valuable professional skill, few resources exist to help define, implement and report on product evaluations.
This report fills that gap by providing a flexible framework for planning and conducting effective product evaluations. By laying out a step-by-step approach, the report helps users understand the purpose of their evaluations, understand their organisational needs, plan a methodology, conduct and report on product trials. Contributors to the report include Pam Foster, editor of VIP http://www.vivaVIP.com/, based on her years of experience conducting product reviews for subscribers.
The included tool kit of 5 hands-on worksheets and activities helps users translate the information into an actionable plan. Appendices also provide guidance and samples for creating needs assessment tools to support an evaluation project, as well as the results of an in-depth product evaluation conducted by a UK agency's information centre in 2006.
The report covers the following:
- Establishing evaluation criteria
- Conducting needs assessments
- Designing review methodology
- Gathering data
- Reporting
The following activities are included in the Product Evaluation Tool Kit:
- Defining evaluation criteria
- Needs assessment
- Data capture and documentation
- Project calendar and tasks
- Reporting
View a sample from this report, including table of contents, introduction and one tool kit activity.
To order this report, simply complete the form on the right of this page.
 Sample and detailed contents »
- Title: FUMSI Report: Product Evaluation Report and Tool Kit
- ISBN: 978-1-904769-14-4
- Publication Date: April 2007
- Views: 1046
- Link to this page
|
If you are a FreePint customer, and login here, then we can check if you already have access to this item:
Purchase:
Choose your license below, and review the Purchase FAQs on the right:
1. Professional License
For individual and single-site use.
£39.00
Convert to:
USD
EUR
AUD
Other
2. Multi-Site License
For redistribution in up to five sites.
£110.00
Convert to:
USD
EUR
AUD
Other
3. Enterprise License
For enterprise-wide redistribution.
£215.00
Convert to:
USD
EUR
AUD
Other
Licenses cover the item being placed on a single-site intranet (or printed by you and placed in a library) for the number of sites (physical locations) covered by the license.
Please contact us if you have a question relating to this item (including licenses) ... or use the 'Live Support' button on the left-hand side of this page.
See the boxes on the right for frequently asked questions and subscription discounts.
|
|
|
Subscribe to FUMSI
"Click the FreePint Support button on the left of any page, or 
There are no delivery charges as documents are available online as digital (PDF) documents.
