At Mott MacDonald we provide services that are designed to help our
customers prepare strategic business cases that justify the
required investment and support the delivery of required benefits
that are in line with their corporate level objectives. Our key
strengths are:
- stakeholder identification, engagement and management
- technical strategy
- risk management
- value management
- investment planning
- funding and commercial strategy
- financial modelling
We believe that the required benefits drive the development of the
strategic business case.
“the best results come from early engagement”
Our strategic business case services are best applied during the
conception and feasibility stages, prior to any decision to pursue
the investment. We tailor our approach to best complement our
customers’ needs for business strategy. We offer 'development' and
'review / health check' services.
Strategic business case development
In collaboration with our customer, we provide support services to
help develop the basic principles and prepare the strategic
business case. As part of this service we ensure a strategic
business case designed to deliver clearly defined benefits through
the investment. We ensure that there are:
- appropriate assumptions
- adequate financial controls
- effective management proposals
- alignment with corporate level objectives
- options appraisal
- clearly identified success criteria
- appropriate challenges to drive out optimism bias
We prepare the strategic business case in accordance with the
requirements of the business and apply the recommendations of The
Green Book during our preparation of business cases for public
sector projects.
Review / health check
As an independent consultant, we perform critical reviews /
health checks for business investments against their developing
business cases at key stage gates in the investment lifecycle. This
is in line with the OGC Gateway Review process, for which we have
approved consultants and demonstrate good practice. We assess the
detailed scope development at the project level against the
developing business case and good industry practice, and if
required generate constructive recommendations to help address
identified issues. We also perform optimism bias assessments for
public sector projects and help define the nature and detailed
scope of projects to develop strategies for the effective
management of project risks, which reduce optimism and raise the
level of confidence in project estimates.
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