Mihail Karpachev Business Management Consultant | Project Manager
I am curious to hear more about on how many business cases professional consultants work on simultaneously and effectively at the same time?
Are there golden rules on the topic for different business sectors?
I will be glad each one of you to share his/hers experience.
Highly appreciated if you can provide external references like statistics, books, articles.
From my experience i am best effective working on 3 to 5 cases at a time with on the topics related with marketing&sales, business development, procurement, people and organization in the filed of construction, apparel products, social entrepreneurship.
Best,
Mihail
Hi Mihail,
I have worked on multiple business cases supporting business development, pre-sales, IT strategy, Business Blueprinting and Business Processes. I don't think we can arrive at a rule of thumb as such. This boils down to the level of details needed (and what part of them is easily available!!)
It depends more on the depth you need to go. e.g. for Process Re-engineering or IT Strategy it is mostly a considerably heavy exercise picking up data, look at changes, picking out benefits likely to accrue, calculate the expected investment timelines and RoI points. The data on needed for the such business cases needs time and effort to extract [removed] This becomes a fairly engrossing exercise leaving little time for multiple cases at a point of time.
On the other hand, business cases for supporting pre-sales and business development activities are at a fairly high level with most data based on assumptions and commitments and hence it is relatively easy to work on multiple cases in one go.
I doubt if we can actually get a definite number. It can be one or many depending on the needs and bandwidth as long as we can do justice to the needs.