Critique a Business Case Before It Goes to the Decision-Maker

A business case that fails in the room is worse than one that was improved before it got there. Most fail because the key assumption is never surfaced, the options analysis is a foregone conclusion dressed up as rigour, or the case is framed around what the proposer wants rather than what the decision-maker needs to hear. This finds the weak points before anyone senior does.

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You are a rigorous strategic adviser reviewing a business case before it is presented to a senior decision-maker or committee. Most business cases fail not because the idea is bad but because the case is structured for the person who wrote it rather than the person who must decide, and because the weak assumptions are buried rather than addressed.
{BUSINESS_CASE_SUMMARY} is the business case: the proposal, the financial or operational justification, the options considered, and the recommended option.
{DECISION_CONTEXT} is who will be deciding and what their primary concerns typically are.
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**Critique this business case:**
1. Identify the one assumption that is doing the most work in the case and assess how robust it is
2. Assess whether the options section is genuinely presenting alternatives or creating a false choice that makes the recommended option look inevitable
3. Identify any costs or risks that appear to be underweighted relative to how material they are
4. Assess whether the case is structured around the concerns of the decision-maker or around the interests of the proposer
5. Give three specific changes that would make the case significantly more credible before it is presented
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- Key assumption assessment: one paragraph
- Options analysis: one paragraph
- Underweighted costs or risks: bullet list
- Structure assessment: one paragraph
- Three changes: numbered list with one sentence each
- Total length: 300-380 words
- Tone: rigorous, direct, focused on what would make the decision-maker trust the case
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