Each asset has a different goal, with different levels of ambitiousness. How is the degree of ambitiousness factored into the assessment of the project through the INFFER process?
A more ambitious goal means you get more benefits from the project (i.e. a bigger number for T), but also it becomes harder to achieve your adoption target (a lower A), perhaps entails more risks (possibly lower P), and definitely higher costs (higher C and M). The system is set up to be able to compare projects with different degrees of ambitiousness, because ambitiousness is captured in those parameters, which form part of the Benefit: Cost Index. For the same reason, it is possible to use INFFER to compare the net benefits of managing a particular asset with more or less intensive management (and correspondingly more or less ambitious goals). You can prepare several Project Assessment Forms for the same asset, with different types and intensities of management in each, and compare their Benefit: Cost Index values. This only works because, in completing the Project Assessment Form, we require your project to be internally consistent. When you change the goal, internal consistency req
