Twelve lines from a business case. A benefit is bankable only if a budget holder will give the money up — and the case that cannot be wrong cannot be right either.
~7 min · Scored · Per-item recap · No sign-up
1. £180k a year of licence spend on the tool this replaces. The owning director has agreed to surrender the line at the next budget round.
2. Twelve hours a week saved across the finance team through automation.
3. The platform will be migrated to the new architecture.
4. Customer complaint handling time will fall by 30%.
5. Two contractor roles, currently £220k a year combined, end when the system goes live. The engagement has a fixed end date already in the plan.
6. Improved data quality across the customer master.
7. A single sign-on rollout removes roughly 4,000 password reset tickets a year. The service desk is outsourced on a per-ticket contract.
8. The new API layer will be delivered by Q3.
9. Reduced risk of a regulatory fine.
10. Server estate reduces from 40 to 12. The data centre contract is fixed for four more years regardless of rack usage.
11. Analyst onboarding time falls from six weeks to two. Turnover in that team is measured and runs at nine people a year.
12. Establish a centre of excellence for data engineering.
0%
Educational. Benefits frameworks differ; what transfers is asking whose budget falls, by how much, and on what date — and being willing to put a real benefit in the capacity column rather than the cash one.