One-Day In-Person Masterclass
An intensive, practical program that gives your team a shared framework and a clear pathway towards developing approval-ready business cases.
Corporate Business Case Training
Build Your Team’s Business Case Capability
Tailored corporate training that helps your team assess, develop and present clear, evidence-based business cases for executive, CFO or board consideration.
Five-Week Live Online Program
Five live, two-hour workshops that allow your team to apply the framework, develop an example business case and receive practical feedback.
Both formats are tailored to your organisation’s priorities, participants and business case approval process.
Discuss the Right Program for Your TeamWho the Program Is For
Develop a Consistent Business Case Approach Across Your Organisation
The Corporate Business Case Program is designed for organisations that want their people to use a practical, consistent and evidence-based approach when developing, reviewing, sponsoring or contributing to business cases.
Business Case Practitioners
Professionals responsible for researching, analysing, developing or writing business cases and investment proposals.
Managers, Sponsors and Reviewers
Leaders who sponsor initiatives, evaluate recommendations or need to provide constructive guidance during business case development.
Cross-Functional Project Teams
Team members contributing to the options, benefits, financial analysis, risks, implementation planning and recommendation.
Strategy, Finance, PMO and Transformation Teams
Functions seeking a shared framework that improves the quality, consistency and reviewability of business cases across the organisation.
The program is particularly valuable when business cases vary in quality, require avoidable rework or reach decision-makers without sufficiently clear strategic, financial and implementation evidence.
Featured Client Success Story
Developing Local Government Business Case Capabilities
Developing Local Government Business Case Capabilities
Discover how we helped Cassowary Coast Regional Council to enhance its internal capacity to develop robust, strategic business cases.
“Thanks so much for delivering those amazing sessions, Craig” — Donna Warr, Cassowary Coast Regional Council
Read the full case study
Discover how we helped Cassowary Coast Regional Council to enhance its internal capacity to develop robust, strategic business cases.
“Thanks so much for delivering those amazing sessions, Craig” — Donna Warr, Cassowary Coast Regional Council
Read the full case study
Build stronger business cases with less avoidable rework.
Build stronger business cases with less avoidable rework.
Give your team a practical framework for developing clearer, more evidence-based business cases and addressing the questions executives, CFOs and Boards are likely to ask before the case reaches the approval process.
Participants learn how to frame the opportunity, develop and evaluate credible options, strengthen the financial and risk analysis, plan implementation and bring the evidence together into a clear recommendation.
The training combines practical guidance, examples and hands-on activities so participants can apply the Five-Step Business Case Framework to the types of initiatives and investment decisions they encounter in their organisation.
The result is a more consistent approach to business case development, stronger capability across the team and fewer avoidable gaps that can lead to challenge, rework or delays during review and approval.
Benefits for your Organisation and Team
Benefits for your Organisation and Team
Timesaving
Teamwork
Increased efficiency
Improved quality
Enhanced credibility
Cost savings
- Reduce avoidable rework by giving participants a consistent framework for developing, reviewing and strengthening business cases.
- Training the team on how to write structured and robust business cases eliminates the need to micromanage the team's work. This allows the Business Leaders to focus on other critical aspects of their role, such as strategy and decision-making.
Teamwork
- Forming teams to develop and present their business cases provides the basis for improving teamwork.
Increased efficiency
- When trained to write structured and robust business cases, the team can work more efficiently and effectively. Business Leaders can rely on the team to complete business cases to a high standard without constant supervision and guidance.
Improved quality
- By training the team to write structured and robust business cases, the Business Leaders can ensure that the quality of the work produced is consistently high. This means that the business cases submitted to the executive team are more likely to be accurate, reliable, and well-supported, improving decision-making quality.
Enhanced credibility
- When the team is trained in writing structured and robust business cases, it enhances the team's credibility, with stakeholders having greater confidence in the accuracy and reliability of the information presented in the business cases.
Cost savings
- Training the Team in writing structured and robust business cases can lead to cost savings for the Team, as business cases are more accurate and well-supported, which reduces the risk of making costly mistakes or poor decisions.
Trusted by Leading Organisations
Trusted by Leading Organisations
Join over 1,350 professionals from 55 countries who’ve transformed their business case skills since 2002.
One-Day In-Person Masterclass Agenda
One-Day In-Person Masterclass Agenda
An intensive, practical day that gives your team a shared framework for developing clear, evidence-based business cases.
The Masterclass combines instruction, discussion, practical examples and applied activities. The agenda can be tailored to your organisation’s priorities, business case requirements and participant experience.
Session 1: Business Case Foundations
Establish a practical foundation for planning and developing a business case.
Participants explore:
the purpose and role of a business case;
how to plan the development process;
the essential components of a robust business case; and
how to use a structured framework to organise the analysis.
Session 2: The Case for Change and Investment Logic
Learn how to frame the opportunity and establish the strategic logic supporting the proposed investment.
Participants examine how to:
define the problem, opportunity or need;
establish a clear case for change;
connect the proposal with organisational priorities;
develop credible investment logic; and
frame the decision required from executives, the CFO or the board.
Session 3: Financial Analysis, Funding and Risk
Explore the financial and risk analysis needed to support a credible recommendation.
Participants work through:
business case financial modelling;
identifying and addressing optimism bias;
scenario and sensitivity analysis;
potential funding requirements and constraints; and
identifying, assessing and responding to material risks.
Session 4: Developing and Presenting a Persuasive Business Case
Bring the analysis together and communicate it in a way that supports informed decision-making.
Participants learn how to:
frame the business case for its intended decision-makers;
structure and write the business case document;
present the recommendation and supporting evidence;
prepare for questions and review; and
use AI tools to assist initial drafting while maintaining professional analysis, validation and accountability.
Recap and Next Steps
The Masterclass concludes with a review of the key lessons and a practical discussion about how participants can apply the framework within their organisation.
Your team will leave with a common business case approach, a clearer understanding of approval-readiness and a practical pathway for strengthening future business cases.
Typical format: One full day, delivered in person, including scheduled morning, lunch and afternoon breaks.
Five-Week Online Program: Workshop Structure
Five-Week Online Program: Workshop Structure
Workshop 1: Business Case Foundations
Workshop 1: Business Case Foundations
Week 1
In Workshop 1, we bring you up to speed and give you the foundations for a successful masterclass program.
You will learn how to develop and structure a business case, what information you need to include, and how to present the value of your project in a manner that helps you get the funding and support you need.
Develop your ability to think strategically about business cases. This 2-hour live Workshop is designed to give you new skills, tools, templates and strategies that you need to develop a solid business case. It is a hands-on workshop to help participants make compelling business cases and communicate their project's value.
Workshop 2: Financial Analysis in Business Cases
Workshop 2: Financial Analysis in Business Cases
Week 2
This two-hour live Workshop is a deep dive into the financial analysis techniques used in business cases. The workshop explores the financial analysis tools, frameworks and techniques to help you quantify the financial value, monetise the outcomes and benefits, and improve the return on investment.
We’ll help you gain the financial insight to make better business cases. First, learn how to write business cases in an inflationary environment. Then, learn how to apply the templates, frameworks and advanced techniques of discounted cash flow analysis, scenario analysis, and sensitivity analysis.
Learn how to develop a financially robust and business-focused case that makes it easy for you to get funding and approval for your project.
Workshop 3: Developing Persuasive Business Cases
Workshop 3: Developing Persuasive Business Cases
Week 3
Develop and tailor the business case document and presentation for executive, CFO or Board consideration. Participants learn how to structure the document, communicate the recommendation, develop a concise decision-maker presentation and prepare for likely questions.
We also examine how AI-assisted tools can support drafting and analysis while maintaining the professional judgement, evidence and validation required for an approval-ready business case.
Workshop 4: Check-In Session
Workshop 4: Check-In Session
Week 4
Each team develops an example business case during the program. In this check-in session, participants receive guidance on the structure, analysis and financial modelling before preparing their final presentation.
Workshop 5: Team Business Case Presentations
Workshop 5: Team Business Case Presentations
Week 5
In the final workshop, each team presents its example business case to the review panel. The session includes a 20-minute presentation followed by 10 minutes of questions and feedback.
The presentation session helps apply the learning from the program.
To achieve this objective, participants should be able to:
- Understand the client's needs and goals.
- Present the proposed solution.
- Explain the expected outcomes.
- Address potential challenges and risks.
- Engage the panel.
Overall, the learning objective of the presentation is to help participants develop and refine their presentation skills, enabling them to effectively communicate complex ideas to clients and stakeholders in a professional, engaging manner.
Every Participant Receives 12 Months' Access to My Business Case Hub®
Every Participant Receives 12 Months' Access to My Business Case Hub®
The Business Case Microcredential
The Business Case Microcredential
Every participant who completes the program receives a Business Case Microcredential digital certificate recognising their professional development and achievement of the program’s learning outcomes.
The certificate can be co-branded with your organisation and shared as evidence of the participant’s development in planning, analysing, writing and presenting business cases.
The Business Case Microcredential is a professional digital certificate of completion awarded to participants in our business case programs for improving their business case skills and expertise.
Learn It, Earn It, Share It
The certificate provides participants with a professional record of completing the program and can be used to support CPD records or shared on LinkedIn.
Learn It, Earn It, Share It
The certificate provides participants with a professional record of completing the program and can be used to support CPD records or shared on LinkedIn.
Your Facilitator
Learn from an Experienced Business Case Practitioner
Craig Peacock (PhD), Director of Chase Consulting Group, has more than 25 years’ experience in strategy, innovation and business cases. He brings practical consulting, facilitation and teaching experience to every corporate program.
- Certified Management Consultant (CMC)
- Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management Consultants (FIMC)
- Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (FAICD)
- Former Adjunct Teaching Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology
Take the Next Step
Discuss the Right Corporate Program for Your Team
Tell us about your participants, priorities and business case capability goals. We will help you determine whether the one-day in-person Masterclass or five-week live online program is the better fit and explain how it can be tailored to your organisation.
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Discuss your delivery format, participants, objectives and next steps.
Turn your business case into an approval-ready decision pack.
