Project Selection

To keep investment project estimates realistic, the originating 
organization must accept a level of risk.  By accepting risk, the group or 
committee that has to select the best projects will not have to deal with 
unrealistic figures.  Once a project is funded, an agreed upon portion of 
the savingsshould be used to  reduce outyear budgets and a portion 
distributed to promote involvement.  Then the organization receiving the 
funding will not have to track exact results, since they will have to live 
with the results.