Strategy and Value Flagship Programme

Strategy Analysis, Business Cases and Value Realisation

Analyse current and future states, evaluate options, develop business cases and assess whether change delivers intended value.

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Course overview

Connect strategic need, investment choice and realised value.

Strategy Analysis, Business Cases and Value Realisation develops the capability to diagnose current conditions, define credible future states and evaluate how change should create measurable value.

Participants assess capabilities, problems, opportunities, risks and options before constructing an evidence-based business case and benefits-realisation approach.

The programme moves beyond approval documents by linking assumptions, investment decisions, change adoption, solution performance and continuing value review.

Learning outcomes

What participants will be able to do.

By the end of the course, participants should be able to:

  • Analyse strategic context, current performance, capabilities and change drivers.
  • Define a credible future state with outcomes, measures and constraints.
  • Identify assumptions, dependencies, risks and readiness conditions.
  • Develop and compare solution and change-strategy options.
  • Structure a business case around strategic fit, value, cost, risk and feasibility.
  • Apply financial and non-financial appraisal methods proportionately.
  • Develop benefits maps, ownership, measures and realisation plans.
  • Evaluate solution performance and recommend actions that increase value.
  • Communicate investment recommendations to governance and executive audiences.

Who should attend

Designed for professionals who shape strategic change and investment decisions.

  • Senior and lead business analysts.
  • Strategy, transformation and corporate-planning professionals.
  • Programme, portfolio and PMO professionals.
  • Product, service and business-architecture practitioners.
  • Finance partners and business-case owners.
  • Sponsors and managers accountable for benefits and value.

Prerequisites

Accessible, practical and professionally relevant.

  • Practical experience of business analysis, change or investment decisions is recommended.
  • No advanced finance qualification is required.
  • Participants should be comfortable working with assumptions, evidence and options.
  • Corporate cohorts may use an organisation-specific strategic initiative or investment case.

Course structure

Five modules from strategic context to value realisation.

The programme integrates strategy analysis, option appraisal, business-case development and post-implementation value review.

1

Module 1

Strategic context and current-state analysis

  • Strategy, objectives, operating context and change drivers.
  • Capabilities, processes, performance and stakeholder needs.
  • Problems, opportunities, constraints and root causes.
  • External environment and market considerations.
  • Current-state evidence and diagnostic summary.
2

Module 2

Future state and change strategy

  • Future-state capabilities, outcomes and measures.
  • Scope, boundaries, assumptions and constraints.
  • Gap analysis and transition considerations.
  • Risks, dependencies, readiness and stakeholder impacts.
  • Alternative change strategies and sequencing.
3

Module 3

Options and investment appraisal

  • Generating solution and change options.
  • Strategic fit, value, feasibility and risk criteria.
  • Cost, benefit, timing and uncertainty.
  • Scenario, sensitivity and assumption analysis.
  • Option comparison and recommendation logic.
4

Module 4

Business-case development and governance

  • Business-case narrative, evidence and decision needs.
  • Financial and non-financial value considerations.
  • Investment stages, governance and decision gates.
  • Ownership, accountability and evidence traceability.
  • Executive communication and challenge review.
5

Module 5

Benefits, solution evaluation and value review

  • Benefits maps, profiles, measures and ownership.
  • Adoption, operating change and enabling conditions.
  • Leading, lagging and confidence indicators.
  • Solution performance and enterprise limitations.
  • Value-review simulation and action planning.

Learning experience

Apply ideas—not simply remember terminology.

Participants work through a strategic investment case and repeatedly test the evidence behind choices and value claims.

Diagnose

Current-state assessment

Teams interpret performance, capability, stakeholder and environmental evidence.

Design

Future-state definition

Participants define outcomes, measures, constraints and transition conditions.

Compare

Option appraisal workshop

Teams evaluate strategic fit, value, feasibility, risk and uncertainty.

Build

Business-case laboratory

Participants construct an evidence-based case and prepare for governance challenge.

Realise

Benefits and value simulation

Teams assign ownership, measures and review actions across the change lifecycle.

Communicate

Executive decision briefing

Participants present and defend recommendations concisely.

Course completion

Demonstrate participation, application and professional judgement.

  • Participate actively in strategy, option and business-case workshops.
  • Complete the principal current-state, future-state and appraisal outputs.
  • Contribute to the investment challenge and value-review simulation.
  • Complete the benefits-realisation and workplace application plan.

Participant outputs

Typical course outputs include:

  • Strategic context and current-state assessment.
  • Future-state outcomes and capability view.
  • Gap, risk, dependency and readiness analysis.
  • Options appraisal and recommendation.
  • Structured business-case summary.
  • Benefits map, profiles and ownership view.
  • Value-measurement and review plan.

Delivery options

Choose the format that fits your strategy and investment environment.

Instructor-led

Live Classroom

Facilitated face-to-face learning with case work, practical exercises, discussion and immediate feedback.

Instructor-led

Live Virtual Classroom

Interactive online delivery with facilitated workshops, collaborative activities and real-time discussion.

Flexible

Blended Learning

A structured combination of preparation, live facilitation, assignments and follow-up workplace application.

Organisation-specific

Corporate and In-Company

Customised delivery aligned with the organisation’s strategy, investment governance, business-case standards, benefits framework and representative initiatives.

Frequently asked questions

Course information and participation.

Do participants need advanced financial-modelling skills?

No. The course explains proportionate financial and non-financial appraisal. More complex corporate cases can incorporate the organisation’s approved financial methods.

Is the course only about writing business cases?

No. It covers strategic context, future state, options, change strategy, investment evidence, benefits ownership and post-implementation value review.

Does the programme cover benefits realisation?

Yes. Benefits identification, mapping, ownership, measures, adoption and value review are central parts of the course.

Can the programme use our investment-governance process?

Yes. Corporate delivery can incorporate internal gates, templates, approval forums and value measures.

Is the course suitable for sponsors?

Yes. Sponsors, senior managers and governance professionals can use it to strengthen challenge, decision quality and value accountability.

Take the next step

Make stronger change investments and realise intended value.

Discuss public delivery, a corporate cohort or a tailored strategy and value programme.

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INDENTRA may adapt sequencing, exercises and examples to suit the delivery format and participant profile while preserving the stated learning outcomes.