Business cases are not a document. That is the wrong approach and the most common approach. A business case is the justification for acting on a recommendation and it ends with convincing management to act. Unless the recommendation is acted on, it is not a proper business case. That is what we teach.

The steps need to generate the business case and get people to act. You have seen us use this approach in every program and book. Now, it is fully documented for you. Given the importance of Business case and Benefits tracking for our clients, we released a massive update of curated non-public guides within the Strategy Control Room (within Advanced Level membership) and Center of Excellence:

Our Best Thinking on Business cases and
Benefits tracking - 711 SLIDES
+
The full methodology - 625 SLIDES
+
A sample business case - 38 SLIDES
= 
1,374 SLIDES

HOW TO FIND THE BUSINESS CASE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (1,374 SLIDES):

1. Log in to The Strategy Control Room, Advanced Level membership area.
2. See the "CENTER OF EXCELLENCE" dropdown. 
3. Select "Detailed Business Case Methodology".
4. The Detailed Business Case Methodology consists of 4 parts: Business cases, Benefits case, Benefits tracking (parts 1 - 3), and Full business case study. Each part includes multiple documents.

If you are The Strategy Control Room, Advanced Level, member, here is the direct link to this particular update (1,374 SLIDES).

If you joined at an Advanced Level of the Strategy Control Room today, you would find:

• Michael's explanation slides for selected programs on StrategyTraining.com

• 9 full engagements

• Change Management Influence & Persuasion Center of Excellence (2,345 SLIDES)

• 31 proposals

• Flipcharts

• Layout guides

• 17 strategy and problem-solving books which we do not make available anywhere else

• 2 brand new strategy and problem-solving books just released and not available anywhere else

• 11 book drafts never before available and not available anywhere else

• Case interview materials for Felix, Rafik, Samantha, and Sanjeev, case interview exhibits, case interview solutions

• The evolution of corporate strategy

• The business case toolkit

• Implementation and operation toolkit

• Corporate strategy toolkit

• Strategy maps

• And more 

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Every client we ever had gets to a point where they have to convince others - peers, subordinates, and their managers - to do things for them. They have to convince people 1:1 and as a group. And the thing we have seen with most of our clients is that even though they accelerate and do pretty well when they're young and they deploy technical skills, at a certain point unless they learn change management, influence, and persuasion skills, they can't operate as leaders.

Why it matters?

• You must be able to convince others to act.

• Creating flexible, responsive organizations.

• Finding and developing creative, innovative people.

• Building and leveraging intellectual capital.

• Encouraging and managing continuous change.

Given how big of a topic Change Management is for our clients, we created a Center of Excellence within the Strategy Control Room (within Advanced Level membership) and released 2 significant Batches of materials within the Change Management Center of Excellence:

Our Best Thinking on Change Management - 1,078 SLIDES (Batch 1)

+

Full Change Management Study - 1,267 SLIDES (Batch 2)

=

2,345 SLIDES

• Batch 1 is our best practice for change management.

• Batch 2 is an actual project, showing you how we used the theory from Batch 1 to deliver a Change Management program to a client.

That's a big thing. That's why we have Centers of Excellence:

We show you a theory and we show an example.

HOW TO FIND THE CHANGE MANAGEMENT, INFLUENCE & PERSUASION CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (2,345 SLIDES):

1. Log in to The Strategy Control Room, Advanced Level membership area.

2. See the "CENTER OF EXCELLENCE" dropdown.

3. Select "Change Management Influence/Gravitas (Batch 1)" and "Change Management Influence/Gravitas (Batch 2)".

4. Once you select a particular Batch, for example Batch 1, you will see it is broken down into multiple parts. And each part has multiple documents within that subsection. For example, Batch 1 has 10 subsections. And each subsection has multiple documents within it.

If you are The Strategy Control Room, Advanced Level, member, here is the direct link to this particular update (1,267 + 1,078 = 2,345 SLIDES).

If you joined at an Advanced Level of the Strategy Control Room today, you would find:

• Michael's explanation slides for selected programs on StrategyTraining.com

• 9 full engagements

• Change Management Influence & Persuasion Center of Excellence (2,345 SLIDES)

• 31 proposals

• Flipcharts

• Layout guides

• 17 strategy and problem-solving books which we do not make available anywhere else

• 2 brand new strategy and problem-solving books just released and not available anywhere else

• 11 book drafts never before available and not available anywhere else

• Case interview materials for Felix, Rafik, Samantha, and Sanjeev, case interview exhibits, case interview solutions

• The evolution of corporate strategy

• The business case toolkit

• Implementation and operation toolkit

• Corporate strategy toolkit

• Strategy maps

• And more

Learn about the Strategy Control Room

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