Better Business Cases™
Ensuring projects always get the green light
Riyadh
BBC™
Foundation & Practitioner
05 – 09 May 2024 | 5 Days
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London
BBC™
Foundation & Practitioner
20 – 24 Oct 2024 | 5 Days
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Ensuring that proposals accurately outline the scope of initiatives to secure management support and funding.
Better Business Cases training and certification are based on the ‘Five Case Model’ – the UK government’s best practice approach to developing spending proposals and enabling effective business decisions.
- Why choose Better Business Case training:
- Learn how to develop a comprehensive and persuasive business case
- Ensure that projects are of value and contribute positively to wider operations
- Learn the HM Treasury recommended best-practice guidance
- Fully understand and utilize the Green Book Guidance on Public Sector Business Cases using the Five Case Model
- Create a step-by-step approach to business case development
- Establish business convergence, clarity, and cohesion
Why Better Business Cases?
- Guidance extensively tested and used by UK Government and increasingly adopted outside the UK.
- The Five Case Model guidance ensures that all major factors are considered.
- Initiatives often fail at the first hurdle as the business case fails to convince senior management of the return on investment.
- This creates a major problem for project teams as they struggle to secure funding for essential change initiatives.
- Creating effective business cases and spending proposals is critical to securing funding and management buy-in.
- Individuals need an opportunity to develop their capabilities to create, review and adapt effective business cases.
What is it based on?
Better Business Cases training and certification is based on HM Treasury’s Green Book (UK central Government guidance on appraising and evaluation policies, programmes and projects) and the Five Case Model (a discipline and structure for arriving at the best possible decision).
Target Audience
- Project / Programme Managers / Directors.
- Project / Programme team members.
- Specialist advisors and others involved in the development, scrutiny and approval of investment proposals.
- Applicable to any industry or sector.
Methodology
ENSURE YOUR PROJECTS & PROGRAMMES ARE SET FOR SUCCESS
Why is a good business case / investment proposal important?
- Vast sums of money and resources are invested in projects & programmes
- Business cases and spending proposals are the catalyst for any major change and investment
- An effective business case helps to ensure a project or programme is setup to succeed
- Initiatives can fail at the first hurdle if the business case fails to accurately scope the initiative and demonstrate return-oninvestment
- Projects and programme failures are often attributed to poor scoping and investment decisions
- Particularly important in the public sector where initiatives are taxpayer funded
- A strong business case is vital to ensure management buy-in and secure investment
GUIDANCE, TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION
the Five Case Model approach
for developing business case
Programs
Better Business Cases™ Foundation Course
What does the course cover?
The Better Business Cases™ methodology is written by the UK Government Treasury in conjunction with the Welsh Government, is well tried and tested and in their words has lead to “quicker and cheaper business decisions”.
This Better Business Cases™ 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.
Benefits for your organization
- Reduce unnecessary spend and optimize public value.
- Reduce consultancy costs.
- Faster throughput and a clear, proportionate approval process.
- Improve quality of decision making.
Benefits for you
- An improved understanding of the Better Business Case process, relevant to both those responsible for producing business cases and those
who approve them. - Understanding of an established and proven methodology which can be applied at both strategic (macro) and tactical (micro) levels.
- Core business competency for any manager or director..
Is the course right for me?
The course is relevant to those responsible for developing and producing spending proposals or their assessment and approval; in particular:
- Accounting Officers – responsible for delivering public value
- Senior Responsible Owners (SROs), Program Directors and Project Managers, responsible for successful delivery
- Directors of Finance, procurement and planning, responsible for the forward planning and prioritization of spending proposals
- Members of approvals and management boards with responsibility for scrutinizing or approving spending proposals
What's included in this BETTER BUSINESS CASES™ FOUNDATION Course?
- Delegate pack consisting of course notes and exercises
- Experienced Instructor
- Refreshments
Exam format
- APMG Accreditation
- 50 multiple choice questions
- 25 marks or more required to pass (out of 50 available) – 50%
- 40 minutes duration
- Closed-book
- Take your exam online with ProctorU, find out more on our exams page
Better Business Cases™ Practitioner Course
What does the course cover?
Given the Business Case is the most important part of a Project, identifying if the project is worth starting, and when reviewed it can influence as to whether the project continues or indeed is stopped, then you would expect it to have a real importance. However, many projects run with an optimistic Business Case, often poorly written, and organizations are spending money that may well not give them the return they expected.
This Better Business Cases™ 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.
Benefits for your organization
- Reduce unnecessary spend and optimize public value.
- Reduce consultancy costs.
- Faster throughput and a clear, proportionate approval process.
- Improve quality of decision making.
Benefits for you
- An improved understanding of the Better Business Case process, relevant to both those responsible for producing business cases and those who approve them.
- Understanding of an established and proven methodology which can be applied at both strategic (macro) and tactical (micro) levels.
- Core business competency for any manager or director
Is the course right for me?
The course is relevant to those responsible for developing and producing spending proposals or their assessment and approval; in particular:
- Accounting Officers – responsible for delivering public value
- Senior Responsible Owners (SROs), Program Directors and Project Managers, responsible for successful delivery
- Directors of Finance, procurement and planning, responsible for the forward planning and prioritization of spending proposals
- Members of approvals and management boards with responsibility for scrutinizing or approving spending proposals.
What's included in this Better Business Cases™ Practitioner Course?
- Delegate pack consisting of course notes and exercises
- Experienced Instructor
- Refreshments
Exam format
- Objective testing
- 4 questions per paper, with 20 marks available per question
- 40 marks or more required to pass (out of 80 available) – 50%
- 2 ½ hours duration
- Open book exam (International Guide to developing the Project Business Case and International Guide to developing the Programme Business Case only)
- Take your exam online with ProctorU, find out more on our exams page
Investment
Prices Excluding 15% VAT | Foundation Online | Preparation Onsite | Execution Onsite | Foundation & Preparation | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Training | Exam fee | Training | Exam fee | Training | Exam fee | Training | 2 Exams fees | |
Individual | 1,050 $ | 400 $ | 2,850 $ | 600 $ | 2,850 $ | 600 $ | 3,600 $ | 1000 $ |
Total Investment | 1,450 $ | 3,450 $ | 3,450 $ | 4,600 $ | ||||
Group Discount 5+ | 10% | |||||||
Price Include
- Program Registration Fee
- Coffee Break & Lunch 5 Star Hotel
- Access to Extensive Readings of Selected Publications Guides
- Online Portal Access for 3 month
- Exam Simulator
- Practical Application