Project Business Case: Write an Effective Project Proposal 

Your case is familiar. In my background as a consultant, our proposals often formed part of the business case. And also, the proposal became part of any final contract. However, I would counsel any organization against letting a vendor's proposal becoming the whole business case. Your organization must own its Business Cases. That means taking the vendor's proposal as a draft and scrutinizing it and adding in your organizational context. Also, set the standards for the financial evaluation of the cash flows. Otherwise, you will get into all sorts of governance issues. Effectively, the vendor will be driving the assessment of its own work - where's the accountability in that?

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Thank you Chris - plenty of plans for the coming months!

Thanks, Harry.

Great!

That's interesting, thank you. Wherever people need to invest, we need to but an assessment of the case for and against that investment, to inform decision-making.

It's an old quote from a Gartner report that came out when I was still at Deloitte. “We recommend that, as a general rule of thumb, from 5% to 10% of the total project’s budget be spent on building and maintaining the business case as well as measuring progress against it” The source I have for it is: 'BPR Consultants: User and Market Trends' - August 12, 1996

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The two terms are mostly used interchangeably. However, where there is a difference, it is this: - Business case has two meanings: Either a neutral document that sets out the objective positives and negatives of each project option, or a piece of advocacy that 'makes the case' for a project. I prefer business cases to be the former - it is better in terms of good governance and rigorous decision-making. Also, I hear BC used a lot in the UK and very little in the US - Project Proposal is used a lot in the US and little in the UK. And, where it is used, it is almost always used in the sense of a piece of advocacy.