Better Business Cases Foundation

Better Business Cases™ is a systematic and objective approach to all stages of the business case development process that sits alongside and complements the HM Treasury’s Green Book guidance.

The course and examination are based on The Five Case Model, the UK government’s best practice approach to planning spending proposals and enabling effective business decisions. This provides a step-by-step guide to developing a business case, by:

• Establishing a clear need for intervention - a case for change
• Setting clear objectives - what you want to achieve from the investment
• Considering a wide range of potential solutions - ensuring an optimal balance of benefits, cost and risk
• Putting the arrangements in place to successfully deliver the proposal.

The following pre-course reading will be e-mailed to you as a PDF document. Please ensure you have the right software available to read/extract a PDF file. The pre-course reading takes approximately 8- 10 hours to perform and consists of the following:

1) Better Business Case®  Workbook Pre-course study
2) Green Book Guidance On Public Sector Business Cases Using The Five Case Model

In addition, delegates will be required to complete a MINIMUM of 1 hour of homework each evening

Course Outline

• Understand the concepts relating to the five case model
• Developed Strategic Case, the steps and the responsibilities involved
• Justifying the requirement for the intervention
• Economic Case is developed, the steps and the responsibilities involved
• Understand the concepts of the Commercial Case
• Concepts of the Financial Case and Management Case
• Offering suggestions and solutions to potential issues
• Ensuring a balance of benefits, risk and cost
• Planning and contributing to a business case proposal
• Business Justification Case and in what circumstances it should be considered
• Purpose of a Strategic Outline Case and an Outline Business Case
• Relationship with best practice programme and project management methodologies
• The relationship between strategies, policies, programmes and projects and their deliverables