Build Stronger Business Case Capability Across Your Council

​​​​​​​Local councils make important decisions about infrastructure, services, technology and community investment. Their business cases need to clearly explain the need for change, compare realistic options, assess costs and benefits, and provide decision-makers with the evidence to make informed choices.

Chase Consulting Group provides practical, tailored business case training for local government managers and project teams. We help your people develop the skills and confidence to prepare robust, evidence-based business cases for executive and council consideration.

Who the Training Is For

Our programs are suitable for council staff who develop, contribute to, sponsor or review investment proposals, including:

• Corporate services, finance and strategy teams
• Infrastructure, assets, capital works and project delivery managers
• Community services, operations and service improvement teams
• Project sponsors, senior managers and business case reviewers

The program is particularly useful when business cases vary in quality, require repeated revisions or need to better explain investment priorities, alternatives and expected outcomes.

What Your Team Will Learn

Using our practical Five Steps Business Case Framework, participants learn how to:

• Define the case for change — clearly articulate the problem, need or opportunity and connect it to council priorities.
• Assess realistic options — identify the business-as-usual baseline and compare feasible approaches.
• Evaluate costs, benefits and risks — use proportionate financial and non-financial analysis, test assumptions and consider affordability and deliverability.
• Develop a clear recommendation — explain why the preferred option offers value and what is required to implement it.
• Prepare an approval-ready business case — write and present evidence in a form that supports informed executive and council decisions.

Activities and examples can be tailored to your council’s priorities, project types and internal approval processes.

Choose a Practical Training Format

One-Day In-Person Masterclass

An intensive, facilitated workshop that establishes a common approach to business case development. Participants work through the framework, explore practical examples and identify opportunities to strengthen business case quality across the organisation.

Five-Week Live Online Program

Five facilitated, two-hour workshops delivered over five weeks. Participants apply the framework between sessions, work on an example business case and receive practical feedback. The program concludes with presentations and discussion of the proposed business cases.

Both formats can be tailored to your team's experience, the council's needs and the types of decisions participants support.

More Than a Workshop: My Business Case Hub®

Our training is supported by My Business Case Hub®, giving participants access to practical tools, templates and resources they can use after the workshops. The five-week program includes 12 months' Hub access and a co-branded business case microcredential for participants who complete the program.

This combination of facilitated learning and ongoing resources helps teams apply a consistent approach to future business cases—not just the example discussed during training.

Experience in Local Government

Chase Consulting has delivered business case capability training for Cassowary Coast Regional Council, helping strengthen the council team's approach to developing robust, strategically aligned business cases.

“Thanks so much for delivering those amazing sessions, Craig”

— Donna Warr, Cassowary Coast Regional Council

Read the Cassowary Coast Regional Council case study

Learn from an Experienced Practitioner

Training is led by Craig Peacock (PhD), Director of Chase Consulting Group, with more than 25 years' experience in strategy, innovation and business cases. Craig is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC), Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants (FIMC) and Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (FAICD).

Discuss Business Case Training for Your Council

Tell us about your team, the business cases they work on and the capability you want to develop. We can recommend an appropriate format and tailor the program to your council's priorities.

Discuss a Training Program