Course title: Developing business cases & reaping the benefits
Objectives:
- Summarise why proposals and business cases are important to identify and realise benefits
- Learn how to develop and structure baselines, market analyses, investment scopes, impact assessments, and implementation plans
- Improve your skills in financial modelling and managing business case assumptions (cash flow, NPV, sensitivity analysis etc.)
- Put your skills to work on some practical exercises and your own cases or business issues
- Learn how to use business cases as a tool to support decision making AND benefit realisation
Intended audience:
General managers, BU managers, program managers, project managers, business developers, financial analysts
Content:
Day 1 - Laying the foundations for developing a strong business case:
- Why proposals and business cases are important & effective ways to structure and communicate them
- Tools and templates to be used in the business case development course
- Critical baseline components to develop in a business case such as revenue, EBITDA and cost breakdowns, customer and service portfolio analyses
- Important market and competitor perspectives such as industry value chains, market sizing and forecasting, competitor profiling, market attractiveness evaluation
- Own case work, exercises and plenum presentations during session, incl. preparation for day 2
Day 2 - Impact analysis and evaluation:
- Investment scoping - how to identify and generate relevant scenarios supporting it and critical aspects to cover
- How to evaluate business impact for identified scenarios using qualitative and quantitative measures, e.g., scenario 0 (do nothing) vs. full transformation
- How to to structure and use cashflow analysis, net present value analysis, internal rate of return and payback time analyses to evaluate investments
- Key principles for effective implementation planning, incl. degree of detailing, ways to structure plans, how to align on expectations within and across the project organisation
- Own case work, exercises and plenum presentations during session, incl. feedback and recommendations for future improvements
Instructors:
Practicing management consultants who would love to share knowledge with participants
Format:
Courses will be provided physically or virtually depending on official guidelines and client preference
Duration:
1-2 days (2 days example shown above, agenda to be tailored to client needs)
Price:
- 1-5 participants: DKK 5,000 per participant per day (excl. VAT)
- 6 or more participants from one company: DKK 3,500 per participant per day (excl. VAT)
Registration:
To register please send an email to [email protected].