PMP's: We can offer 16 or 24 PDU's under
Category 4, for which we will issue a signed certificate.
The Business Case
is no Longer Optional
It's no secret that the current business climate
is rapidly losing its tolerance for management errors while the
need for rock-solid accountability is increasing. Most important
business decisions today require a business case. Everyone talks
about the "business case," but surprisingly few know what this
means or what makes the difference between a strong case and a weak
case.
Join more than 9,500 other professionals who have
taken the same training at Boeing, Cisco, Ericsson, McDonald's,
Microsoft, IBM, Peoplesoft, the US Department of Defense, and
dozens of other organizations. Learn and practice the proven
approach presented in the whitepaper Business Case Essentials and
the best selling Business Case Guide. (See seminar
agenda).Who Should
Attend
Since 1994, Solution Matrix Ltd. has helped
thousands of business people and others to understand the
essentials and deliver business case results that score high in
credibility, accuracy, and practical value. Building the Business
Case and the Master Class are designed for those responsible for
project, program, or product proposals.
- Managers
with a need to bring consistency, discipline, and accountability to
decision making and planning in their organizations
-
Consultants who advise clients in decision making and planning
- Those
who propose or plan major IT acquisitions or changes
- Business
people responsible for capital spending decisions
- Sales
people and sales managers who need to show customers that a
decision to buy is a good business decision
- Business
school faculty who focus on business planning, finance, decision-
support, and business strategy
What You Will
Learn
The Business Case Seminars feature "hands on"
workshops with real business case examples. Most participants have
little or no prior experience in finance or business planning.
During the course they build the benefits rationale, cost model,
and financial analysis - the heart of a professional quality
business case. At Building the Business Case you will learn:
- The
essential building blocks that every business case must have
- What to
look for in case reports that makes the difference between a strong
case and a weak case
- The
difference between the case for decision support and the case for
business planning
- How to
build credibility as you build your case
- How to
legitimise and measure the full range of business
benefits—even the so- called "intangibles"
- How to
build a financial modelling system for asking "what if" questions,
finding which assumptions that drive results, and measuring risk
and uncertainty in your projections
- How to
package and present business case results for maximum impact
The Business Case Master Class provides
additional in- depth practical guidance and hands-on experience
in:
- The
financial model that "makes the case" for proposed projects,
programs, products, or capital acquisitions
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Estimating costs and benefits realistically and credibly
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Implementing financial metrics in your financial results (including
NPV, IRR, Payback, and IRR).
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Shortcuts and risks in spreadsheet modelling
- Monte
Carlo simulation, to ask "What If?" questions, measure risk, and
reduce uncertainty in projected business results
-
Quantitative methods for bringing non-financial benefits and costs
into the case
- Taking
the "Soft" out of "Soft Benefits"
Included
Register now (click here) for the 2-day
“Building the Business Case” and immediately download
your copy of the Business Case Guide, Business Case Templates and
Financial Metrics Pro. Also, for those who register to
continue on with the 1-day “Business Case Master Class”
the Financial Modelling Pro is available for immediate
downloading.
Business Case Guide
The
Guide has been recognized as the standard source for those who
build the business case, since 1999, when the first edition
appeared. The latest edition of the Business Case Guide is
written with depth and detail that finance and planning
professionals require, and is also rich in practical help and
examples for those with little or no background in those
areas.
Business Case Templates
Everyone who builds a serious financial case soon learns that
setting-up the report and the financial model can be tedious, time
consuming tasks. That work can be shortened from days or
weeks to a few hours, however, with good template examples.
The MS Word documents and Excel spreadsheets in the Business Case
Templates package can be modified to fit your own case content
easily and quickly, to produce professional quality report
documents and analysis systems.
Financial Metrics Pro
A
clear, easy to follow introduction to cash flow metrics and
financial statement ratios: What they mean and how to build them
into your own spreadsheets. Ready-to-copy templates for more
than 100 important financial metrics are provided.
Financial Modelling Pro
The
Financial Modelling Pro is designed to serve as a practical guide
to model building, textbook and tutorial. It comes, however,
in a live spreadsheet rather than the printed page so that text and
working examples can appear together. Users can "try out"
principles and methods described in the text without leaving the
page. Many of the working examples, moreover, can be used as
templates, for copying and pasting into your own
models.
Venue
Seminar hours will be 0900 to 1700 (with a
one-hour lunch break) on each of the seminar days. Complete venue
details will be emailed to participants as soon as registration is
completed. Lunch on seminar days and refreshments are included in
the seminar fee.
Hong Kong
The
business case seminars will be held at the Conrad Hong Kong.
Soaring 61 floors above the Pacific Place, an upscale retail and
entertainment complex in the city's central business district, the
Conrad Hong Kong Hotel offers easy access to many sites of
interest, as well as all major transportation, including MTRailway,
Star Ferry, and bus and tram services.
The hotel address is Pacific Place, 88
Queensway, Hong Kong, China (Ph: 852 2521 3838.
No Hassle
Money-Back Guarantee
If you are not completely satisfied with Building
the Business Case or Business Case Master Class, please let us know
in writing within 15 days after seminar completion, and we will
refund 100% of your seminar fee.
Seminar
Leader
Building the Business Case and Business Case
Master Class are led by Dr. Marty J. Schmidt, President and Founder
of Solution Matrix Ltd.
Dr Schmidt has twenty years business experience,
managing software development, international marketing and sales
support, and, (since 1987) management consulting on business
issues. He is a recognized authority on the application of
cost/benefit analysis and business case development.
Dr. Schmidt also taught graduate and
undergraduate statistics at the University of New Hampshire, is the
author of a college textbook on statistics, and publishes often on
professional management and business issues (e.g., The Business
Case Guide, 2nd ed.). He holds the Ph.D. degree from Purdue
University and the M.B.A. from Babson College. Click for more
information on Solution Matrix Ltd. and our clients.
Co-Facilitator
Seminar co-facilitator is Anuar Mohd Ariff,
Managing Director of Solution Matrix Asia Sdn. Bhd. Achieving sales
targets has been the focus of Anuar’s working life for the
past twenty-five years. During his time in the field, he has sold a
wide range of products, solutions and services in the insurance,
banking and telecommunications industries. In 1994, Anuar was part
of a local bank’s team that built the business case and
subsequently launched the first European-style bank assurance in
Asia. A holder of the Master of Business Administration from the
University of Wales, a Fellow of the US Life Management Institute
and an Associate of the UK-based Chartered Insurance Institute,
Anuar brings Solution Matrix’s training and consulting
services to Asia.
Supporting
Organization SynergySynQ Ltd.
SynergySynQ Ltd, a
Hong Kong based project management services company with an aim to
SynQronize business performance in line with expectations by
applying project management practices. SynergySynQ does that
via:
-
SKILLBUILDING
: Organizing training and workshops to increase
competency of organizations, teams and
individuals.
-
CONSULTANCY
: We provide trained and skilled professionals for
coaching or consultancy work on projects and
organizations.
- FACILITATION:
The use of a skilled facilitator for meetings and workshops often
leads to better results. External facilitators bring in skills and
fresh ideas leading to better outcomes. Workshops can cover
teambuilding, idea generation, problem solving, project start-ups
and project closures.
