Business Case: Why Do Anything?
Build a Business Case to explain how Performance Management; Planning, Reporting & Analysis, Monitoring; can bring Benefits to your key business objectives: Revenue, Expense, Compliance, Long-Term Assets.
"The Business Case that Simpson Associates produced for Chemring Group Plc helped to align business expectations and provided clear evidence of financial business benefits. The process was collaborative, their methodology was helpful and their experience of working with other organisations was compelling"
Angus McQueen, Group Accountant, Chemring plc.
Business Case

A Business Case for submission to a Board seeking an investment decision will typically be comprised of the following sections:

  • Reasons to Change
  • Options
  • Benefits Expected
  • Risks
  • Costs
  • Timescale
  • Investment Appraisal
  • Evaluation

Simpson Associates regularly participates in creating Business Cases specifically for Performance Management investments, and offers a Business Case service that builds on the findings from our free Discovery service to produce content for several of the sections listed above, specifically quantified for your project.


Also, from our experience of Project Delivery in Performance Management since 1991 Simpson Associates has a Solutions Directory of over 30 investments that organisations have made with us, that we are able to draw on to help you quantify Benefits derived from:

  • Efficiency savings
  • Increased Shareholder Value
  • Reduced Business Risk
  • Improved Profitability
  • Increased Working Capital

And, as dedicated specialists in Performance Management we are also constantly monitoring surveys and Analyst reports that can inform Business Cases at a generic level.

For more information on how Simpson Associates' Business Case Service could help you contact us.