Better Business Cases Development Course - slides

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Better Business Cases Investing for
change
Indicative Business Case
Programme Strategic Assessment
Programme Business Case
Project Strategic Assessment
Indicative Business Case
Detailed Business Case
Implementation Business Case
Single Stage Business Case
Project Strategic Assessment
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Indicative Business Case

• Purpose
• Confirm the strategic context
• Confirm the case for change
• Recommend an indicative way
• forward with a limited number of short-listed
• options for further detailed analysis

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Indicative Business Case
Strategic

• Strategic Case-Making the Case for Change
• Revisit strategic context and confirm case for
  change
• Investment objectives, existing arrangements and
  business needs
• Potential business scope and key service
  requirements
• Benefits, risks, constraints and dependencies

Stakeholders do the strategic case thinking
together in one or more two hour workshops
led by a facilitator
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Indicative Business Case

• Economic Case-Exploring the Preferred Way Forward
• Critical success factors
• Long-list options and initial options assessment
  by dimension
• Scale, scope and location (what)
• Service solution (how)
• Service delivery (who - including non-traditional
  procurement options)
• Timing and staging (when)
• Funding (how much)

Economic

• Stakeholders do the economic case thinking
  together in two or more two-hour workshops led by
  a facilitator, and a procurement specialist
• Prepare long list (consider inclusion of
  industry), then
• Assess long list to short list

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Non-traditional procurement relationship spectrum
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The long list to short list of options (example)
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Indicative Business Case

• Commercial, Financial and Management Cases
  (Outline)
• Recommended preferred way forward, if
  conventional procurement
• At least three short-listed options, including a
  base case option
• Provide range of indicative cost estimates for
• each short-listed option and funding sources
• Outline the commercial case
• Outline the management case

Commercial
Financial
Management
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In summary

• Indicative Business Case
• Confirm the strategic context the case for
  change
• Recommend an indicative way forward with a
  limited number of short-listed options for
  further detailed analysis