What You Stand to Lose Without a Strong Business Case
Don’t let under-prepared proposals cost you critical funding and strategic momentum.
At the heart of all new initiatives and significant business decisions lies a robust business case.
With finite resources and competing priorities, it can prove challenging to get initiatives approved. Developing a robust and defensible business case requires a deep understanding of the Client's needs and the challenges they face from both within their organisation and their industry or sector.
The business case process identifies and evaluates the alternatives to recommend the best option. As a result, the business case process enables our clients to increase the proposed investment's benefits and value and reduce the risks. It also leads to a much greater likelihood of securing the approval to proceed with the investment project.
At Chase Consulting, we specialise in building robust data-driven business cases. We have experience across various industries, helping clients produce clear, objective and easy-to-understand business cases.
Your Expert Business Case Consultant
Craig Peacock, PhD
Director, Chase Consulting Group
Craig brings over 25 years of proven success in strategy, innovation, and business case development. As a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) and Fellow of both the Australian Institute of Management Consultants (FIMC) and the Australian Institute of Company Directors (FAICD), he combines rigorous professional standards with deep industry insight.
Having guided organisations—from nimble SMEs to Global teams—Craig knows exactly what it takes to secure executive buy-in and funding. He also served as an Adjunct Teaching Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology, distilling complex methodologies into clear, actionable frameworks.
With Craig as your consultant, you’ll gain:
Tailored Guidance: One-on-one support to adapt best-practice business-case frameworks to your unique challenges.
Proven Techniques: Tools and templates refined over decades to streamline development and boost approval rates.
Strategic Insight: Hands-on coaching that fosters the confidence and clarity your team needs to win every time.
Book a session today and partner with an expert who turns proposals into approvals.
Our Business Case Approach
Our proven business case process is designed to help you develop an effective strategy for your project by providing guidance on how best to structure your proposal in order to maximise its chances of success. It also provides insight into what makes projects successful and why some fail.
We recommend a collaborative approach with our clients to build and write the business case. This collaborative approach for the business case aligns with our 5 STEPS Framework for developing solid business cases.
A Proven 5-Step Approach Developed Over 20+ Years
Our clients typically see a 30–40% reduction in the time required to develop their business cases.
Our business case services are tailored for clients needs based on their specific requirements. We provide a range of skills necessary to develop evidence-based business cases to support board, executive and management decision-making.
We help our clients:
Produce clear, objective and easy to understand business cases
Align the business case recommendations with the organisation's strategic objectives
Avoid many of the common pitfalls of business case preparation.
Present a balanced consideration of options
Demonstrate a robust value-for-money business case with detailed cost-benefit analysis
Recommend sustainable solutions capable of continued efficiencies, savings and value
Demonstrate their ability to deliver the project.
Justify the preferred option.
Develop their persuasive presentation.
How We Help You
Hands-On Support at Every Stage
Tailored templates & tools
Expert one-on-one coaching
Peer-review workshops
Free bonus: Get our Business Case Readiness Checklist—yours free with a strategy call.
At Chase Consulting, we provide the understanding and insight – together with the proven approaches – to help our clients safely and adeptly navigate the business case journey. So whatever the industry or sector, function or geography, we can help organisations avoid the significant causes of failure.
Our support begins at the earliest stages of innovation or project. We help our clients to build their business case justification, offering tools and services around customer insights, market research, business case development, stakeholder and value management, and benefits realisation.
We provide the required skills, experience, insights, methods and tools to develop and write robust business cases.
Connect with Chase to discuss the strategies and projects to improve your business.
Featured Client Success Story
Discover how we helped Outdoors Victoria build a robust business case and stakeholder engagement plan—enabling a multi-year expansion of community nature participation across Victoria.
“Working with Craig and the team was strategic, insightful, and action-oriented…” — Kieran Brophy, Outdoors Victoria
Read the full case study
Our Work with Clients on Business Case Outcomes
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We Helped Professionals From Leading Organizations In Over 55 Countries.
