How to prepare business cases: a practical guide for accountants
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Autor: Remenyi, Dan
Jahr: 2009
Contents
Preface xi
About the Authors xiii
How to Use this Book xv
1 Why a Business Case for Investment? 1
1.1 Introduction 3
1.2 The comprehensive business case 8
1.3 A business case as a model 9
1.4 Definition of a business case 10
1.5 Corporate culture is central to a business case 12
1.6 A caution 13
1.7 Who owns the business case? 14
1.8 Summary 15
2 Different Investment Decisions
and the Business Case 17
2.1 Investment decisions and the business case 19
2.2 Must-do investments 20
2.3 A core business investment decision 20
2.4 Investment in a prestige project 23
2.5 Investments in research and development 25
2.6 Investment matrix and the business case 26
2.7 Intangible benefits 28
2.8 The Protean nature of investment business cases 28
2.9 Summary 29
3 Preparing a Business Case 31
3.1 Introduction 33
3.2 The elements of a business case 34
3.3 The consensus issue 36
3.4 The acceptance of change 36
3.5 Accuracy of estimation 39
3.6 Strategic alignment 40
3.7 Technology 40
3.8 Risk - project and system 41
3.9 An investment business case as a process 41
3.10 Multi-stage large scale investments 42
3.11 Summary 44
4 The Art of Evaluation 45
4.1 Introduction 47
4.2 Evaluation and the business case 47
4.3 Traditional business evaluation 48
4.4 Dimensions of evaluation 50
4.5 Other evaluation issues 54
4.6 A professional approach to the evaluation process 55
4.7 A word about assumptions 55
4.8 Summary 56
5 The Business Outcome 59
5.1 Introduction 61
5.2 Outcome statement or statements 62
5.3 Another example of the macro-model
for a sales administration system 67
5.4 Meso-model 69
5.5 How to develop a meso-model 72
5.6 Generic categories of benefit 73
5.7 Micro-model 75
5.8 Summary 77
6 The Stakeholders 79
6.1 Introduction 81
6.2 The importance of stakeholders 82
6.3 The stakeholder 82
6.4 The three major groups of stakeholders 83
6.5 The investment owners as stakeholders 83
6.6 Technical professionals as stakeholders 85
6.7 Financial managers and administrators
as stakeholders 85
6.8 Different stakeholders - different views 86
6.9 Stakeholders - for and against 88
6.10 Stakeholder mapping 90
6.11 Stakeholder management 93
6.12 The stakeholders and the business case 96
6.13 Summary 98
7 Strategic Alignment and Benefit Identification 99
7.1 Introduction 101
7.2 Strategy? What strategy? 101
7.3 Approaches to strategic thinking 103
7.4 The five forces model 103
7.5 Generic strategies model 104
7.6 The value chain model 105
7.7 Strategy and the value package 109
7.8 The question of strategic alignment 112
7.9 Shifting sands 115
7.10 Summary 115
8 Technology Issues 117
8.1 Introduction 119
8.2 Understanding required by the principal
stakeholders 120
8.3 A difficult challenge 120
8.4 Create a technology statement 121
8.5 Checklist to assist completing the
technology statement 125
8.6 Summary 126
9 Risk - Conceptualising and Measuring 127
9.1 Introduction 129
9.2 Defining risk 130
9.3 A 3 X 3 risk framework for project risk 131
9.4 Other types of project risk 132
9.5 Bad ideas 136
9.6 Incorporating risk in the business case 137
9.7 Quantifying and managing risk 138
9.8 Another approach to risk quantification 140
9.9 Summary 143
10 Business Case Accounting 145
10.1 Introduction 147
10.2 Basic approach 147
10.3 Cost framework 148
10.4 Basic concepts required for business case
accounting 150
10.5 Detailed cost items 157
10.6 Pattern of costs 159
10.7 Sources of cost estimates 160
10.8 Sources of benefit estimates 160
10.9 Different approaches to business case accounting 161
10.10 Combining these approaches to business
case accounting 169
10.11 Difficulty in estimating investment variables 169
10.12 Using deterministic analysis 171
10.13 Using risk analysis 173
10.14 A risk analysis example 174
10.15 Investment decision rules 176
10.16 Leasing 177
10.17 Summary 179
11 Evaluating a Business Case 181
11.1 The preparation of a business case is challenging 183
11.2 The hallmark of a professionally produced
business case 184
11.3 Summative and formative evaluations 185
11.4 A checklist for evaluating a business case 186
11.5 Weighting and scoring for prioritising projects 189
11.6 Summary 191
12 Using the Business Case as a Project
Management Tool 193
12.1 Introduction 195
12.2 Phases of investment project management 196
12.3 A reiterative process 196
12.4 A route to successful IT implementation 197
12.5 Summary 201
Appendices 203
Appendix A Business outcome details 205
Appendix B Stakeholder details 209
AppendixC Strategy 211
Appendix D Technology 213
Appendix E Cost benefit analysis 215
Appendix F Evaluating a business case 223
Appendix G Dealing with risk 225
Appendix H Financial measures used in
cost-benefit analysis 227
Appendix I Glossary of terms 231
Appendix J Bibliography 239
Index 245
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