Did you read Windmill 2009?
it makes really fascinating reading. The Windmill series of Exercises gets experts from a whole variety of backgrounds: different parts of NHS, local authorities, independent providers, patients, users and Trust governors, Department of Health, all to play themselves in a scenario looking at "what could happen if"
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John Thorp's book "the information paradox" is probably the foundation on which future benefits realisation has been based. Although it is based around IT projects (notoriously, with a 70% "failure" rate), there is much that can be applied to all environments.
The Demos report "measuring social value: the gap between policy and practice" asks a very important question 'is there a standard method of measuring SROI?'.
The answer is: that depends.
When planning a new project, or evaluating whether an existing service has been successful, financial success is often the only thing that gets counted.