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Building an Effective Business Case

Analyzing and Communicating Business Opportunities
 
Course: 212   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Analyze, create and communicate a successful business case to meet your organization's unique needs
  • Translate a concept or initiative into a range of viable options for achieving organizational goals
  • Identify and compare costs and benefits of alternative solutions
  • Apply risk assessment techniques to forecast and mitigate potential problems
  • Prioritize 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 organizational initiative. Organizations can miss valuable opportunities and make less-than-optimum decisions because of poorly constructed and communicated business cases. In this course, you carefully analyze initiatives to construct a clear business case that enables organizations 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 program, product, or purchase; plus business and technical evaluators who evaluate and report on business cases.

Course Workshop

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

Related Courses

 
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Upcoming Dates

Feb 4 - 6, 2009
 Washington, DC (Alexandria, VA)
Feb 25 - 27, 2009
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
Mar 4 - 6, 2009
 Ottawa
Mar 18 - 20, 2009
 Toronto
Apr 22 - 24, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Jul 8 - 10, 2009
 Ottawa
Jul 15 - 17, 2009
 Toronto
Aug 19 - 21, 2009
 New York
Sep 9 - 11, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)

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1-800-THE-TREE (1-800-843-8733)
TRAINING YOU CAN TRUST
 
 

Building an Effective Business Case

Analyzing and Communicating Business Opportunities
 
Course: 212   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days
 
 
Course 212 Content
 

Introduction

  • Fundamentals of a business case
  • Where the business case fits into the project life cycle
  • Recognizing decision makers
  • Business case as an Organization 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 realized

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

Analyzing user scenarios

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

Analyzing Your Options

Developing possible alternatives

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

Comparing costs and benefits

  • Categorizing 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

Prioritizing risks

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

Prioritizing Alternative Solutions

Examining decision processes

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

Delivering and positioning the solution

  • Prioritizing 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
  • Minimizing content to get maximum results

Polishing the summary

  • Avoiding common mistakes
  • Applying fundamental tools and techniques

Presenting the Business Case

Organizing 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
  • Practicing your role
  • Generating feedback for improvement
 
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Building an Effective Business Case Tuition

Analyzing and Communicating Business Opportunities
 
Course: 212   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

Course Tuition
$ 2,390 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,350 10-Day Pass
$ 1,670 Training Passport
$ 1,625 Premium-Pass
$ 2,200 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,155 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,124 Government Discount
 

 

Your Course Tuition Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  • FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)
  
 

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  • As little as $1,625 per course
  • Save as much as 45%
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