Benefits and the Business Case

The online workshop

 The four sessions

This online event invites you to bring your own experiences and management challenges into play using a set of structured learning events, Zoom-mediated interactions, and personal reflections.

Each session is 90 minutes long with the opportunity between sessions to try out the lessons learned back in the workplace.

Session 1: Defining benefits – a measurement of value

  • Creating an organisational lexicon for benefits
  • Benefits, impacts, and products
  • Establishing value for non-financial benefits
  • How stakeholders impact the way we structure business cases

Exercise 1: Analysing a business case (A workout on your own or another’s business case)

Session 2: Constructing a benefits case

  • The contents of a benefits case
  • The six aspects of a project that define purpose and value
  • He role of project impacts in developing commitment
  • Assessing the benefit risks

Exercise 2: Developing a benefits case for your (or another’s) project

Session 3: Writing the business case

  • Inheriting the benefits case
  • Options and costing strategies
  • The role of the key stakeholders
  • Establishing the 9 fundamental logs for a project

Exercise 3: Sharing organisational issues in the presentation of business cases

Session 4: The role of the business case in decision-making…

  • …in project selection
  • …determining establishing a project portfolio
  • …when culling projects
  • …implementing change

Exercise 4: Sharing approaches to portfolio prioritisation management