Surveying your collection needs
During this phase of your collection operations life cycle, you should have already surveyed your organization's effectiveness against your established collection needs during the last cyclic period. You now understand how your organization's desired collection efforts were met by examining the reality of the actual collection effort. With this information about your organization's collection capabilities, you can now use this as a factor for planning out your collection needs for the following cycle of operations.
It is at this point that you need to determine whether any of your PIRs have shifted as this will certainly shift the focus of the PCRs. If they haven't, then you need to take in several factors and reevaluate your PCRs to ensure that they continue to meet your organization's collection needs and this shift is reflected during your collection operations. Let's review some of the considerations you should examine...
