
Business Case: Course Introduction
Business Case Specialist Masterclass: Course Introduction
In this lecture, you will get introduced to the overall course. You will learn answers to the following questions:
What is included in the Business Case Specialist course?
What can you expect?
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Who is eligible to take this course?
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Real-Life Anecdote Introduction
This Business Case real-life anecdote happened a few years ago. You will get a detailed introduction to this anecdote. This real-life anecdote will evolve as the course progresses into different sections and lectures.
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Section Introduction (Introduction to the Business Case)
In this lecture, you will be introduced to the topics covered in the section. These topics include:
What is a Business Case?
What are the reasons for developing an internal Business Case?
Should you consider approval of your Business Case a Success Criteria?
What are the different components of a Business Case?
What is a Business Case?
In this lecture, you will be introduced to the term "Business Case." You will learn its meaning and high-level applications.
What are the reasons for developing an internal business case?
There are two types of business cases. And we focus on one of the two types in this course. In this lecture, you will be introduced to the two types of business cases. And you will also learn why we focus on creating internal business cases.
Should you consider approval of your Business Case a Success Criteria?
A common myth among project managers is that each business case they pitch needs to be approved. We discuss this myth in detail and understand the real meaning and reasons for creating compelling Business Cases.
What are the different components of a Business Case?
In this lecture, you will be introduced to the Business Case template. This template is a downloadable file. You can use this Business Case template to create your own business case in your organization. We will discuss the different components of the Business Case with the help of this template.
Real-Life Anecdote: Business Case in 30 Days
The real-life story of our key character involved in creating a business case for his organization is discussed in this lecture. The character is tasked with creating the business case in only 30 days.
Section Conclusion
This lecture will summarize our learnings from this section: Introduction to the Business Case.
Section Introduction (Understanding the Business)
In this lecture, you will be introduced to the topics covered in the section. These topics include:
What is involved in understanding the business?
What is a SIPOC?
What are the steps to create a SIPOC?
What is a Hierarchy Flowchart?
What are the steps to create a Hierarchy Flowchart?
Capture High-Level Data
Create the Necessary Inferences
What is involved in understanding the Business?
This lecture will teach you why understanding the overall business is essential. This overall understanding can be at 40,000 feet above. It is also termed as understanding the holistic business. You will also be introduced to the tools involved in understanding the business.
What is a SIPOC?
One of the powerful tools for understanding the business at a holistic level is the SIPOC. In this lecture, you will be introduced to this tool.
What are the steps to create a SIPOC?
In the previous lecture, you understood the reasons for using SIPOC to seek an overview of your business process. In this lecture, you will learn the steps to create a SIPOC.
Real-Life Anecdote: Understanding the Business Using a SIPOC
In this lecture, you will review how the main character of our real-life anecdote creates a SIPOC to understand the business process he is working with.
What is a Hierarchy Flowchart?
A hierarchy flowchart is another tool that you can use to understand the business at a holistic level. In this lecture, you will get introduced to this tool.
How to Create a Hierarchy Flowchart?
In the previous lecture, you understood why a Hierarchy Flowchart was used to seek an overview of your business process. In this lecture, you will learn how to create a Hierarchy Flowchart.
Real-Life Anecdote: Create a Hierarchy Flowchart
In this lecture, you will review how the main character of our real-life anecdote creates a Hierarchy Flowchart to understand the business process at a holistic level.
Capture High-Level Data
Once you know your business process, you can capture high-level data. This lecture discusses why and how to capture high-level data.
Create Inference
Once you have an initial understanding of the business process and have access to high-level data, you can now create reasonable inferences. This lecture discusses why and how to create these inferences.
Section Conclusion
This lecture will summarize our learnings from this section: Understanding the Business.
Section Introduction (Stakeholder Identification and Engagement)
In this lecture, you will be introduced to the topics covered in the section. These topics include:
What is Stakeholder Identification and Engagement
Stakeholder Analysis using the Power-Interest Grid
The Quadrants of the Power-Interest Grid
What is Stakeholder Identification and Engagement?
This lecture will explain why stakeholders are essential for any project. It outlines the need to identify and engage stakeholders during your project journey.
Stakeholder Analysis using the Power-Interest Grid
Stakeholder Identification and Engagement can be done in a structured manner, i.e., using specific tools and techniques. You can use several tools to do so. We discuss the available tools and further focus on the Power-Interest Grid.
The Low-Power and Low-Interest Quadrant
The Power-Interest Grid is divided into several quadrants. This lecture helps you learn the characteristics of the low-power and low-interest quadrant.
The Low-Power and High-Interest Quadrant
The Power-Interest Grid is divided into several quadrants. This lecture helps you learn the characteristics of the low-power and high-interest quadrant.
The High-Power and Low-Interest Quadrant
The Power-Interest Grid is divided into several quadrants. This lecture helps you learn the characteristics of the high-power and low-interest quadrant.
The High-Power and High-Interest Quadrant
The Power-Interest Grid is divided into several quadrants. This lecture helps you learn the characteristics of the high-power and high-interest quadrant.
Real-Life Anecdote: Stakeholder Analysis
In this lecture, you will review how the main character of our real-life anecdote creates a Stakeholder Analysis to identify his stakeholders.
Real-Life Anecdote: Stakeholder Analysis (Continued)
In this lecture, you will review how the main character of our real-life anecdote creates a Stakeholder Analysis to engage his stakeholders.
Section Conclusion
This lecture will summarize our learnings from this section: Stakeholder Identification and Engagement.
Section Introduction (Define the Problem)
In this lecture, you will be introduced to the topics covered in the section. These topics include:
How to Define the Problem?
Real-Life Anecdote: Define the Problem
How to Define the Problem?
This lecture will teach you the steps to define the project problem.
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Business Case: Real-Life Anecdote: Define the Problem
In this lecture, you will review how the main character of our real-life anecdote defines the problem by reviewing the pain areas of the business process.
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Business Case: Section Conclusion
This lecture will summarize our learnings from this section: Define the Problem.
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Business Case: Section Introduction (Identify Possible Solutions)
In this lecture, you will be introduced to the topics covered in the section. These topics include:
What is Brainstorming?
What is a Fishbone Diagram?
What is Multi-Voting?
How to brainstorm possible solutions?
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Business Case: Introduction to Identify Possible Solutions and Brainstorming
In this lecture, you will see how identifying the possible solutions is broken down into substeps. You will continue learning one of the most powerful tools to generate ideas. This is called Brainstorming.
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Business Case: What is a Fishbone Diagram?
In this lecture, you will learn how to use the Fishbone Diagram to represent the root causes of the problem pictorially.
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Business Case: What is Multi-Voting?
In this lecture, you will learn how to use the tool Multi-Voting to identify the top root causes out of the trivial many subjectively.
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Business Case: Brainstorming Possible Solutions
In this lecture, you will learn how to use the tool, Brainstorming to identify possible solutions.
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Business Case: Real-Life Anecdote: Identify Root Causes and Fishbone Diagram
In this lecture, you will review how our real-life anecdote's main character identifies the problem's root causes using brainstorming and the fishbone diagram.
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Business Case: Ascertain Root Causes using Multi-Voting
In this lecture, you will review how using the multi-voting tool, our real-life anecdote's main character ascertains root causes out of trivial many.
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Business Case: Validating the Root Causes
In this lecture, you will review how our real-life anecdote's main character validates the identified root cause.
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Business Case: Determine Possible Solutions
In this lecture, you will review how our real-life anecdote's main character determines possible solutions for identified root causes with the help of organizational resources.
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Business Case: Section Conclusion
This lecture will summarize our learnings from this section: Identify Possible Solutions.
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Business Case: Section Introduction (Project Assumptions and Constraints)
In this lecture, you will be introduced to the topics covered in the section. These topics include:
What are Project Assumptions?
What are Project Constraints?
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Business Case: What are Project Assumptions?
In this lecture, you will gain a detailed understanding of the term "Project Assumptions."
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Business Case: Real-Life Anecdote: Identify Project Assumptions
In this lecture, you will review how our real-life anecdote's main character identifies project assumptions and updates them in the assumption log.
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Business Case: What are Project Constraints?
In this lecture, you will gain a detailed understanding of the term "Project Constraints."
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Business Case: Section Conclusion
This lecture will summarize our learnings from this section: Project Assumptions and Constraints.
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Business Case: Section Introduction (Project Risks, Resource Requirements & High-Level Timelines)
In this lecture, you will be introduced to the topics covered in the section. These topics include:
What are Project Risks?
How to determine Project Resource Requirements?
How to determine High-Level Project Timelines?
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Business Case: What are Project Risks?
This lecture will teach you how to identify and document project risks.
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Business Case: How to Determine Resource Requirements?
In this lecture, you will learn how to determine project resource requirements.
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Business Case: Real-Life Anecdote: Determine Resource Requirements
In this lecture, you will review how our real-life anecdote's main character determines project resource requirements.
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Business Case: Determine High-Level Timeline
In this lecture, you will learn how to determine the high-level timeline for your project during the business case creation stage.
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Business Case: Real-Life Anecdote: Determine High-Level Timeline
In this lecture, you will review how our real-life anecdote's main character determines high-level project timelines.
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Business Case: Section Conclusion
This lecture will summarize our learnings from this section: Project Risks, Resource Requirements & High-Level Timelines.
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Business Case: Section Introduction (Project Benefits)
In this lecture, you will be introduced to the topics covered in the section. These topics include:
What are Project Benefits?
How to build project financials?
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Business Case: What are Project Benefits?
In this lecture, you will understand the nitty-gritty's of documenting tangible and intangible project benefits.
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Business Case: Real-Life Anecdote: Determine Project Benefits
In this lecture, you will review how our real-life anecdote's main character determines project benefits.
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Business Case: Building Project Financials
In this lecture, you will learn the details of documenting project capital requirements and projected financials.
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Business Case: Section Conclusion
This lecture will summarize our learnings from this section: Project Benefits.
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Business Case: Section Introduction (Present Value)
In this lecture, you will be introduced to the topics covered in the section. These topics include:
What is Present Value (PV)?
How do you calculate Present Value (PV) in excel?
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Business Case: Present Value (PV): What is the Time Value of Money?
In this lecture, you will learn the Time Value of Money concept, which is critical in learning the Present Value (PV) calculations.
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Business Case: Present Value (PV): What is Discounting?
In this lecture, you will learn the term "Discounting" and thoroughly understand the concept of Present Value. You will also learn how to calculate present value manually using a formula.
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Business Case: Present Value (PV) in Excel
In this lecture, you will learn how to calculate the Present Value in Excel.
Business Case Specialist Masterclass: A Complete Guide
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Business Case: Section Conclusion
This lecture will summarize our learnings from this section: Financial Benefits: Present Value.
BUSINESS CASE SPECIALIST CERTIFICATION | Earn Accredited Business Case Specialist Certification | 4 official PDUs | CPDs | CEUs
NOTE: Students who complete this Business Case Specialist Certification course are offered the opportunity to apply for an optional Business Case Specialist Certification Exam, free of charge. Passing this certification exam enables you to earn the officially accredited Business Case Specialist Certification. This external exam, which is both optional and free (for the first two attempts), takes place off the Udemy platform. It requires registration (name, email, and your Udemy certificate) and is administered by AIGPE™ (Advanced Innovation Group Pro Excellence), a global Lean Six Sigma Credentialing Organization serving professionals in 193+ countries across various industries.
INDUSTRY RECOGNIZED ACCREDITED BUSINESS CASE SPECIALIST CERTIFICATION:
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CPD Accredited Training & Certification: This Business Case Specialist Training Program and the Business Case Specialist Certification you receive is accredited by the globally renowned CPD Certification Service (Provider No: 14627, Certificate No: 40177).
Recognized as a "Provider of Choice" by SHRM: AIGPE™ is also recognized as a "Provider of Choice" (Recertification Partner) of the world's largest society for Human Resources called the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).
Earn PDUs/PDCs/CPDs/CEUs: Due to the above accreditations and associations, after completing this course and passing the certification exam, you receive a globally recognized certification in which 4.0 official PDUs/PDCs/CPDs/CEUs are granted (at no extra cost).
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Two Types of Business Cases
There are mainly two types of Business Cases - external and internal.
External Business Cases involve pitching an idea to investors, funders, or external parties to invite them to invest in your organization.
Internal Business Cases are those where you work on improving business processes, business metrics, and key performance indicators and pitch the improvement idea to the senior management and internal stakeholders.
This course trains you to craft compelling Internal Business Cases.
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This Course is Industry Independent
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What's included in this Business Case Specialist Masterclass Training Course?
What is a Business Case?
Understanding the Business
Identify Stakeholders and Engage Them
Define the Problem
Identify Root Causes and Possible Solutions
Document Project Assumptions and Constraints
Identify Project Risks
Determine Project Resource Requirements
Articulate Project High-Level Timelines
Document Project Benefits and Financial Projections
Calculate Present Value (PV) using Excel
Calculate Net Present Value (NPV) using Excel
Calculate Internal Rate of Return (IRR) using Excel
Understand Financial Concepts such as Payback Period, Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) and Opportunity Cost
Identify Key Metrics
Write a compelling Executive Summary
What would you get after taking this course: Business Case Specialist Masterclass?
Master 10+ Tools, Techniques, Templates, and Financial Calculations (combined)
Become a pro at drafting compelling business cases
Understand how to document a business case by reviewing a real-life anecdote
Pitch any business problem to the senior management using the most effective and compelling techniques
learn the techniques to understand an end-to-end business process at a holistic level
master the art of identifying and managing project stakeholders
Define the project problem like a pro
Learn root-cause analysis techniques
Document Project Risks, Assumptions, and Constraints
Identify Resource Requirements and High-Level Project Timelines
Build Project Financials
Get access to 4+ hours of video content and 100+ Downloadable Resources
This Business Case Specialist Training program is suitable for:
Beginners in Project Management
Practicing Project Managers
Professionals looking to apply for PMP® Certification Exam
Process Consultants and Freelancers
This is an industry-independent course. This course is mainly for beginners. It is not for professionals with advanced knowledge in writing Business Cases.
This course is designed and produced by industry practitioners in Project Management who have trained and certified thousands of professionals for several Project Management, Six Sigma Certifications, Lean Specializations, and Data Analytics expertise.
This Business Case Specialist course is comprehensive yet straightforward and designed to help you learn Business Case writing tools and techniques using real-life anecdote and many activities.
This Business Case Specialist Course assumes you have no prior project management background. However, it does assume that you have a basic knowledge of excel. With over 4+ hours of on-demand video, over 100 lectures, over 100 supplemental resources, and 10+ activities, this comprehensive tutorial covers everything you'll ever need to become a Business Case Specialist.
Whether you want to:
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this complete Business Case Specialist Course is exactly what you need and more.
What makes this course a Bestseller?
Like you, thousands of others were frustrated and fed up with fragmented online know-it-all tutorials which assumed you could understand the complex jargon involved in Business Case documentation and left you without having you practice what you have learned.
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The course is very well structure:
The course duration is 4+ hours
You become an expert in 10+ Business Case writing tools, techniques, templates, and financial calculations (combined)
These are covered in 15 sections and 90+ lectures
Each section is dedicated to a specific Business Case concept
Each lecture covers bite-sized information; easy to grasp and apply
Each lecture consists of a video screencast
Each section is well-rounded with:
A section objective discussed at the beginning
Then the concept is discussed at length
Then real-life anecdote is discussed to review the concepts learned from a practical perspective
This is followed by an exciting quiz
Each section ends with an apt summary
Numerical activities are supplemented with life process data
There are multiple downloadable ready-to-use templates
There are over 90 supplemental downloadable resources that are comprehensive and pertinently cover everything you'll need to become a Business Case Specialist
There is a high focus on the Real-Life Anecdote to prepare you well to succeed in any Project Management related role (for documenting Business Cases)
The market is never short of jobs in the field of Project Management and Process Excellence functions. There are ample jobs. They only need skilled individuals. They are ready to hire individuals with hands-on knowledge and those who outshine the interview process.
Ready to get started on the part to writing compelling Business Cases?
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