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Building an Effective Business Case

Analysing and Communicating Business Opportunities
 
Course: 212   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days   PMI: 17
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Analyse, create and communicate a successful business case to meet your organisation's unique needs
  • Translate a concept or initiative into a range of viable options for achieving organisational goals
  • Identify and compare costs and benefits of alternative solutions
  • Apply risk assessment techniques to forecast and mitigate potential problems
  • Prioritise alternative solutions according to key decision criteria
  • Present the business case effectively to critical stakeholders to gain acceptance

Course Benefits

A business case is a tool for projecting the financial and business consequences of an organisational initiative. Organisations can miss valuable opportunities and make less-than-optimum decisions because of poorly constructed and communicated business cases. In this course, you carefully analyse initiatives to construct a clear business case that enables organisations to make better decisions. You also apply a library of tools and templates for real-world application.

Who Should Attend

Business analysts, project managers and anyone who creates business cases to justify investment in a programme, product, or purchase, plus business and technical evaluators who evaluate and report on business cases.

RealityPlus
Throughout this course, you are immersed in a computer- and video-enhanced experience which simulates a real-world business case analysis that yields tangible work products and deliverables. Activities include:

  • Developing and presenting a real business case
  • Analysing your stakeholders
  • Applying key interview skills
  • Determining user scenarios for the proposed process or product
  • Identifying and prioritising alternative solutions
  • Performing cost benefit analysis
  • Capturing and prioritising risk using a business case Risk Register
  • Prioritising alternative solutions to align with key business criteria
  • Creating a persuasive executive summary

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  • 912 Building a Business Analysis Work Plan
  • 447 Introduction to Modelling for Business Analysis
  • 943 Strategic Enterprise Analysis
  • 252 Strategic Planning
  • 315 Developing User Requirements
  • 218 User Requirements for Software Development
  • 901 Introduction to Business Intelligence
  • 213 Introduction to Knowledge Management

 
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Upcoming Dates


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11 - 13 AugLondon 
24 - 26 NovLondon 
9 - 11 MarLondon 
6 - 8 JulLondon 
 
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0800 282 353 or +44 1372 364610
Productivity through Education®
 
 

Building an Effective Business Case

Analysing and Communicating Business Opportunities
 
Course: 212   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days   PMI: 17
 
 
Course Content
 

Introduction

  • Fundamentals of a business case
  • Where the business case fits into the project life cycle
  • Recognising decision makers
  • Business case as an Organisation Process Asset (OPA)

Defining the Business Case

The six-step process model

  • Focusing on the required elements
  • Examining the role and value of the steps

Identifying the benefits and risks of the process

  • Clarifying the business drivers
  • Proving that benefits are realised

Scoping the Business Case

The two-step scoping process

  • Harvesting stakeholder perceptions
  • Collecting the business requirements

Applying the stakeholder perception matrix

  • Creating the problem and opportunity statement
  • Writing business requirements

Detailing the Initiative

Conducting stakeholder analysis

  • Identifying business-level stakeholders
  • Eliciting tacit knowledge from stakeholders

Analysing user scenarios

  • Structuring and interpreting the scenarios
  • Diagramming as an effective tool

Analysing Your Options

Developing possible alternatives

  • Practical tools for researching alternatives
  • Investigating your options to derive alternate solutions

Comparing costs and benefits

  • Categorising tangible and intangible benefits
  • Evaluating and selecting financial appraisal methods

Forecasting benefits

  • Creating a benefits rationale
  • The impact of time and risk

Applying basic cost models

  • Four common financial analysis tools
  • Creating a cost model

Managing Risk in Your Business Case

Risk assessment methods and tools

  • Creating and using a risk register
  • Applying the risk assessment matrix

Prioritising risks

  • Framing risk with your stakeholder analysis
  • Aligning risk evaluation results with stakeholder point of view

Prioritising Alternative Solutions

Examining decision processes

  • Evaluating three common decision-making models
  • Heuristics: rule-based decision making

Delivering and positioning the solution

  • Prioritising and selecting alternatives by key decision criteria
  • Aligning the business case with decision processes
  • Selecting the business case delivery methodology

Crafting a Persuasive Executive Summary

Preparing the document

  • Outlining the format and contents
  • Overcoming the business document paradox
  • Minimising content to get maximum results

Polishing the summary

  • Avoiding common mistakes
  • Applying fundamental tools and techniques

Presenting the Business Case

Organising the presentation

  • Revisiting key decision maker hot buttons
  • Preparing the message
  • Sequencing the content
  • Tailoring your presentation to the audience

Selecting the delivery medium

  • Communicating your case with confidence
  • Templates to build powerful presentations and wall-walks

Improving the presentation

  • Validating your presentation
  • Practising your role
  • Generating feedback for improvement
 
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Building an Effective Business Case Tuition

Analysing and Communicating Business Opportunities
 
Course: 212   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days   PMI: 17
 
 

£ 1,475 Standard Fee
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