Operational feasibility is the ability to utilize, support and perform the necessary tasks of a system or program. It includes everyone who creates, operates or uses the system. To be operationally feasible, the system must fulfill a need required by the business.
Programs that reduce costs without reducing the quality of a product are an example of operational feasibility. Studies are performed to make sure that programs can be initiated in the current production facility, without the need for more equipment or staff. If there is a need for more room, machinery or personnel, the system needs to make an improvement in the way the product is perceived by consumers. This allows the added expense to manufacture the product because of the anticipated increase in sales and revenue. Economic feasibility is one portion of operational feasibility. Everyone involved in the manufacturing and use of the system, product or program needs to understand it and be able to use it in the manner it was designed to be used. Feasibility studies are done not only in the private business sector, but by all governmental organizations. If the changes made to a product or program are not understood by the end users, it is not considered feasible.