What you will learn
In Building the Business Case (2 days) participants learn:
What the business case must include in order to "make the case" that a recommended action is a good business case.
The essential building blocks that every business case must have
- What to look for in case reports that makes the difference between a strong case and a weak case
- The difference between the case for decision support and the case for business planning
- How to build credibility as you build your case
- How to legitimize and measure the full range of business benefits—even the so-called "intangibles"
- How to build a financial modeling system that let's you ask "what if" questions, find the assumptions that drive
results, and measure risk and uncertainty in your projections - How to package and present business case results for maximum impact
Business Case Master Class is designed as a one-day follow on course for those who have business case experience, or those who have completed Building the Business Case. The Master Class prepares participants to:
- Design the financial model at the heart of the business case, so as to best address the business case purpose.
- Build financial models with best practice spreadsheet programming skills.
- Apply influence diagram analysis to analyze complex business situations and determine business objectives, cost drivers, uncertainties, risks, contributions to revenues, and other factors that must be modeled.
- Apply Monte Carlo Simulation to the business case model, in order to address risk and sensitivity Questions:
- How likely are the projected results?
- How likely are other results?
- Which assumptions are most important in controlling expected busieness results?
- Which contingencies and critical success factors must be managed to target levels, in order to obtain these results?
- Make non financial costs and benefits tangible, show how they impact business objectives, and compare them to financial results.
You are invited to write for detailed agendas for both semianars.
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