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Developing Professional Business Cases Training Course
Better, Faster, Smarter Business and IT Decisions
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Inteq's Developing Professional Business Cases Training Course provides a proven methodology for crafting clear, concise, and evidence-based business cases. Participants learn to align initiatives and proposals with strategic goals, quantify benefits and costs, and present business cases that provide decision-makers with objective analysis that inspires confidence and credibility.
Professional well-crafted business cases stand as cornerstones for informed decision-making. Yet, many business cases are developed informally without the rigor of a best practice approach and framework to unlock their full potential, resulting in sub-optimal decisions, and overlooked opportunities.
Inteq's Developing Professional Business Cases Training Course provides the tools and roadmap you need to excel in developing professional business cases, positioning you and your team as indispensable resources in the decision-making process.
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What You Will Learn
- Define business problems and objectively analyze proposed solutions
- Assess alignment of business cases with broader organizational strategies and objectives.
- Quantify and communicate benefits, costs, and risks
- Present options and recommendations from a stakeholder-focused perspective
- Analyze resource allocation (time, budget, talent) and prioritize initiatives based on value and feasibility.
- Leverage templates and frameworks for rapid, repeatable case development
Who Should Attend
- Business Analysts, Systems Analysts, Financial Analysts
- Project Managers and Product Owners
- Strategic Planners and Business Leaders
- Operations and IT Managers
- Anyone in decision making roles that rely on well-substantiated business cases for decision making
Course Benefits
- Create high-quality business cases that drive confident decision-making
- Build influence and credibility with executive stakeholders
- Align proposals with strategic business priorities
- Enhance your value and impact across the organization
- Elevate your role as trusted advisor by presenting informed well-structured thoroughly vetted business cases with confidence
Course Format & Delivery Options
- Delivery: Live online, self-paced on-demand, or onsite
- Duration: 2 days | 16 Hours
- Certification: Certificate of Completion + CEUs
- Tools Provided: Templates, models, and frameworks for reuse
What Sets This Course Apart
- Taught by James Proctor, a leader in strategy execution, business analysis and business cases
- This course emphasizes real-world application through practical tools and executive-level communication strategies
- The Inteq Group’s methodology is trusted by global organizations and ensures participants walk away ready to craft business cases that inspire confidence and action
- Transformation: This is not just a training course but a transformational experience that prepares you and your team to become trusted advisors in your organization
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Ready to create business cases that drive action and approval? For Team Training, please contact us via the Team Training side panel to discuss your specific training goals and objectives - including 3, 4 and 5-day hybrid and bootcamp training programs.
Course Outline
Business Case Key Concepts
Business opportunities and business cases
Business case myths and misconceptions
An enterprise 360° perspective
Business case framework and roadmap
Analyzing Business Opportunities
Identifying business opportunities
Business change drivers
Operationalization tactics
Scope of change and tracking metrics
Developing Business Cases
Value drivers and stakeholders
Risks/risk mitigation
Costs and constraints
Supporting and opposing arguments
Managing Opportunities And Cases
Iterative evolution of business opportunities and cases
Developing opportunity user stories
Opportunity priority and status
Presenting business cases
Backlog grooming and decision making
Business Case - Case Study
Participants identify opportunities, develop sophisticated business cases and discuss decisions that impact workflows, reporting relationships and business systems in connection with a complex real-world business process. This case study provides an invaluable template that participants can leverage to create effective business cases in their organization.
Discovering Business Knowledge
Professional analysis vs. order taking
Superficial vs. Deep | Light vs. Heavy
Key sources of business knowledge
Discovery techniques and methods
Essential Professional Skills
Identifying and organizing the right participants
Facilitation techniques and best practices
Capturing and validating session knowledge
Managing difficult personalities and situations
Stakeholder And Team Engagement
Thinking like an owner
Utilizing agile, rapid and iterative analysis techniques
Scaling cases to opportunities
Getting started Monday morning
- Uncovering the Difference Between Business Cases and Use Cases
Directly reinforces the course’s goal of clarifying what a business case is—and isn’t—helping professionals avoid confusion and structure proposals effectively. - 10 Strategic Inflection Points That Require Transformational BPR
Identifies triggers that often justify a business case. This post helps participants recognize when a formal business case is essential to guide major transformation. - Cost Optimization: Three Essential Strategies
Supports the financial aspect of business case development by addressing how to articulate cost-saving opportunities—an essential part of ROI justification. - The Art of Scenario Analysis
Provides a decision analysis technique taught in the course. Scenario modeling is critical for evaluating business case alternatives under different assumptions. - Business Transformation Blueprint
Helps align business case content with strategic initiatives. Offers insights into how well-framed business cases support enterprise transformation goals.
OK, there is not a box per se, the content is digital. In addition to 2-days/16 hours of expert instruction you receive:
- Digital Badge of Completion
- Personalized Certificate of Completion
- ACCET Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
- IIBA Professional Development Units (PDUs)
- Electronic (PDF) Comprehensive Course Manual
- Case Study Materials
- Supplemental Course Materials
- Live Virtual Classroom: Instructor Led | Live Online. Inteq's innovative Live Virtual Classroom approach brings the benefits of traditional classroom training into a live virtual environment.
- Live Team Training (Virtual or Onsite): Inteq’s Business Systems Analysis 2-day training course can be tailored to your organization’s training objectives and can be combined with other Inteq courses to create a 3, 4 and 5-day hybrid training program.
- Enterprise training for the entire organization.
None. Inteq’s Developing Professional Business Cases training program provides a comprehensive and cohesive approach to developing business cases regardless of background and level of experience.
Developing Professional Business Cases is designed to seamlessly integrate with:
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