Reliable Business Case Home

Few decision makers are aware of how unreliable their business case is, and with no or rare follow-ups, they will never see how poor their IT investment was. Reliable Business Case method forces management, business, and IT organisation, to understand their part and action to make the results to occur for real. They will understand what measures they had to do to actualise the business changes.

- ' A business case is not a forecast of future money, it is a forecast of future business change '

- Tyrone Skogstrom, RBC Handbook

With this in mind you need to understand the Reliable Business Case method, and its companion RBC Excel ToolTM, are not just another excel template. Combined, they are the tool to turn business change into value. They are perfect support in your critical Business Change Programmes, your Benefits Management framework, or your Benefits Analysis and Business Case situations.

This site focus on my current areas of interest

  • Finish writing the Reliable Business Case Handbook and make it available to you all
  • Offer a powerful and free RBC Excel ToolTM, supporting the method
  • Training in RBC Analysis (pay your interest through the contact form to the left)

Reliable Business Case Handbook

I am working on completing the Reliable Business Case Handbook, a guidance tool how to set up and execute the RBC method. It also includes instructions how to create any business case in reliable ways, even if you choose not to use this particular method and Excel tool.

The book targets you, who more than just sometimes do a business case: IT-Controller, Management Consultant, Business Consultant, Project Managers, CIOs, CFOs.

A special target is also teachers in universities, such as in Financial and Business Economics. The Reliable Business Case Handbook focus more on the decision process and benefits realisation, rather than economic formulas. That said, nevertheless the RBC Excel Tool is a great pedagogic tool to do financial training, to laborate with ROI, Payback, net present value, etc.

Submit your interest to have a reminder when the book is ready - use the contact form in left menu.

RBC Excel ToolTM

Reliable Business Case method has great support from the free RBC Excel ToolTM you soon will be able to download from this RBC Handbook promotion site. It is free, to be used with the method described in the coming RBC Handbook. A beta version is ready for test (see menue to left), with the exchange from you to offer your experience.

Impact and Priority TableIf the tool can offer one single silver bullet benefit for you, it would be the Impact & Priority table. After a quick PreAnalysis, you can find what benefits and cost are most important, by their impact on the results. From there, you easily can add just precisely the hours, effort and cost, to make a solid, reliable, business case.

Even better - when you make a ResultControl analysis, you find exactly what items of benefits or cost, differ from the forecast.

The Excel Tool gives all decision data needed to justify your investment or business change. The tool consists of four straightforward worksheets:

  • Report sheet
  • Business Benefits Screening sheet
  • Expenditure Screening sheet
  • Project Set-up sheet

There are some more sheets to use, but these four usually is the only ones you need. You get what your decision-makers and controllers want; Cash flow, Payback, Return on Investment, Benefit-Cost Ratio, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Net present Value, etc. You also get a great support to separate intangible benefits and expenses, from tangible. With the method’s three reliability categories Reliable, Visible, and Assumed, you will always know the reliability of the calculation and results. One further reliability category Not Estimated offer you a separate list of issues you can report evaluate – their impact could be just as big as the ones you calculate.

Training & consulting

In Sweden

In Sweden you can participate in a RBC Analyst course (Swedish) arranged by the company Astrakan, in Stockholm. As management consultant, I help organisations to implement Benefits Realisation Framework, and as part of that adapt method and tools, and train decision makers and analysts. Other kinds of assignments are described in 'Book - Training - Consulting' in the menu.

Rest of the world

Consulting assignments are welcome. Training; submit your interest in training in other countries/cities with the contact form to the left, and we will see what can be arranged. Larger organisations can easily set-up a training of your own, but all you others need to wait until enough interest in your neighbourhood - apply your intererest through the contact form (also have check boxes etc regarding training, email reminder then the book is finished, etc.)