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Essential Skills for Writing Successful Business Cases Training Course

This masterclass will give you the skills and understanding to write clear, compelling and factual documents to give your business initiatives the best chance of success.

3 December 2024
+ 6 March 2025, 2 July 2025, 12 November 2025 »

from £249

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Course overview

By creating a comprehensive business case, organisations can ensure that projects are well-conceived, justified, and planned; ultimately increasing the likelihood of successful outcomes and sustainable value creation.

By honing your writing skills, you will create documents that present a comprehensive analysis and justification for a proposed business initiative, project or investment. 

By giving decision-makers a clear understanding of a proposed initiative within a well-conceived business case, they will have all the details of the opportunity proposed, including:

  • the potential benefits
  • costs involved
  • possible risks and how to mitigate against them
  • feasibility assessments

A clear, well written document is a vital step in justifying a project and facilitates informed decision-making. It is a means of presenting a proposed initiative in the best light, demonstrating how it will add value to the organisation and help to prioritise investment. 

During this half-day course, the expert trainer will cover best practise in writing business cases, cover what to include in your rationale and explain how to put them to best use to give you a greater chance of proposing a successful business initiative.

This training course is part of our collection of Leadership & Management Training Courses which focus on leadership, innovation, strategy, communication, finance, problem solving and conflict management, to name a few key areas.

Benefits of attending

By attending this course you will:

  • Understand the purpose and use of business cases
  • Learn what should be included in a clearly written rationale
  • Get to grips with the skills for writing compelling business cases
  • Improve your communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Achieve the outcomes you require for your project

Who should attend?

This course has been specially designed for:

  • Senior business executives and managers
  • Business development managers
  • Project managers
  • In-house and private practice lawyers
  • Heads of legal teams

This course works well alongside the change management, project management and process management workshops.

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This course will cover:

Understanding the purpose and benefits of businesses cases

  • Purpose and usage
  • Common context and content
  • Making the content compelling
    • Strategic alignment 
    • Scenario analysis

Business cases in practice: implementation and evaluation

  • Implementation plans
  • Measurement issues, including common KPIs and costs to the business
  • Stakeholder management, communicating and persuasion

 

Summary and final questions

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Helene Russell
TheKnowledgeBusiness

Hélène Russell, founder of The Knowledge Business, is a UK solicitor (non-practising) and specialist in Knowledge, Learning and Innovation. After 8 years in practice, primarily in clinical negligence litigation defence, she has worked as a self-employed knowledge management consultant for 13 years. Hélène specialises in practical tools to improve the efficiency and profitability of real-life law firms.

Hélène has extensive experience in business strategy, project management and teaching leadership skills. She runs a popular 'KM Strategy + coaching' course in UK and has written short form and lengthy strategies for a variety of law firms, as well, of course, as writing her own business’s strategy. Hélène has spoken at various events, including Ark’s KM Legal, Lexpo-18, for UWE, St Andrew’s University, BLS and Allice, and chaired international conferences.

She runs a global online KM training and networking group and is a core committee member organising the annual UK Knowledge Mobilisation Conference and Chair of CILIP’s Knowledge and Information Management Special Interest Group. Hélène has an executive MBA with distinction (which included a strategy module), and she is the sole author of two textbooks, contributor to five of Ark’s multi-author books and is currently contracted to Facet Publishing to write a handbook on KM Strategy.

 

 

More details

NEW higher discounts for multiple bookings - bring your colleagues to make your training budget go further:

  • 30% off the 2nd delegate*
  • 40% off the 3rd delegate*
  • 50% off the 4th delegate*

Please contact us for pricing if you are interested in booking 5 or more delegates

3 December 2024

Live online

13:30-17:00 UK (London) (UTC+00)
14:30-18:00 Paris (UTC+01)
08:30-12:00 New York (UTC-05)
Course code 14283

  • GBP 299
  • EUR 429
  • USD 489

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for 7 days, no obligation

6 March 2025

Live online

13:30-17:00 UK (London) (UTC+00)
14:30-18:00 Paris (UTC+01)
08:30-12:00 New York (UTC-05)
Course code 14564

  • GBP 249 299
  • EUR 359 429
  • USD 411 489

Until 30 Jan

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2 July 2025

Live online

13:30-17:00 UK (London) (UTC+01)
14:30-18:00 Paris (UTC+02)
08:30-12:00 New York (UTC-04)
Course code 14761

  • GBP 249 299
  • EUR 359 429
  • USD 411 489

Until 28 May

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12 November 2025

Live online

13:30-17:00 UK (London) (UTC+00)
14:30-18:00 Paris (UTC+01)
08:30-12:00 New York (UTC-05)
Course code 14953

  • GBP 249 299
  • EUR 359 429
  • USD 411 489

Until 08 Oct

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* Early booking discounts may not be combined with other discounts or offers. As such, the discounts for 2nd/3rd/4th delegates are based on the full price; and apply only when booking multiple delegates on the same date.

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Multiple colleagues? See above for details of our discounts for 2, 3, or 4 delegates. For more, talk to one of our training experts to discuss how to:

Run this course conveniently and cost-effectively in-house for your staff and colleagues

Aleksandra Beer

Aleksandra BEER
Training expert

Yesim Nurko

Yesim NURKO
Training expert

+44 (0)20 7749 4749

inhouse@ipi.academy