Demonstrating Value and Return on Investment

Overview

Securing buy-in from key stakeholders is crucial to public sector organisations carrying out a wide range of projects.

Making sure these projects demonstrate Value for Money (VFM) has become an essential aspect for obtaining support in the current climate where effectiveness matters the most. By embedding Return on Investment analysis techniques into your projects, you can demonstrate their success when reporting your results.

Attend our Demonstrating Value and Return on Investment training course to understand benefits management; examine and apply different appraisal techniques; communicate value for money to senior stakeholders; refine your financial analysis and have an overall positive impact on organisational performance.

This highly interactive course helps you identify the risks and benefits of a fit-for-purpose approach to Return on Investment (ROI). Take back proven ROI analysis techniques to your organisation to appraise projects, improve their value and achieve good results.

Bernie Leadbeater

Project Management Consultant

As a trainer, I have presented many successful courses with consistently good feedback and excellent pass rates. I have delivered courses in the UK, Malta, Canada and Bangladesh, and throughout Europe.

As a project manager, I have managed and participated in all aspects of projects, from initial business case to implementation and handover to support, and realization of benefits, including managing budgets, in-house project teams, 3^rd party suppliers, configuration, business process re-engineering, scope, risk and change management, etc.

I have used the techniques described in the guides extensively when submitting project ...

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Learning Outcomes

Learn about different appraisal techniques and which works best for your project
Understand who needs to be involved in the appraisal process
Efficiently communicate the findings of a value-for-money analysis to senior management and project teams
Refine your financial analysis for the whole project lifecycle
Learn how to quantify non-financial benefits to determine the success of a project

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Agenda

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09:00 - 09:30

Registration

09:30 - 10:00

Trainer’s Welcome and Clarification of Learning Objectives

10:00 - 11:00

An Introduction to Return on Investment Analysis and Benefits Management

Understand and define what a benefit is
Learn the difference between outcomes, capabilities and objectives
Know everything about benefits: identify, manage, map and track them through the project lifecycle and benefits cycle
Identify and understand the relationship between project management, change management and benefits management
What and who is involved

11:00 - 11:15

Morning Break

11:15 - 12:45

Examining Different Appraisal Techniques

Financial technique
Payback period
Net presence value
Internal rate of return
Cost, Benefit, and Risk analysis
Non-financial benefits and quantifying them
Proxy and Leading indicators

12:45 - 13:45

Lunch

13:45 - 14:30

Communicating Value for Money

Understand different ways of communicating benefits at various stages of a project lifecycle
Learn how to secure buy-in from stakeholders
Demonstrate Value for Money and Return on Investment

14:30 - 14:45

Afternoon Break

14:45 - 16:00

Refining Your Financial Analysis through the Lifecycle

Revise the business case through the lifecycle
The five-case model: its lifecycle and benefits
Toolkit: Confidence and attribution
Optimism bias discounting based on reference classes

16:00 - 16:15