139. How to build a better business case

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Recently retired after a wide ranging 39-year career in the NHS, Robert has a broad range of skills, knowledge and experience in healthcare capital investment business case process and has worked with NHS boards to provide subject matter expertise to support delivery of significant and complex programmes of investment in all NHS sectors. He now offers professional consultancy services to support public sector capital investment business case and project & programme reviews, as well as coaching and mentoring for individuals and teams in relation to NHS capital investment processes, career development and service planning.

Robert’s proudest achievement: Leading the NHS England Project Appraisal Unit for capital investment business cases, and later on the NHS England & NHS Improvement Capital Business Case Technical Support & Training Unit has been the highlight of my career.

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Mr. Abhaya Krishna Agarwal is a Retired Partner at Ernst & Young LLP, India. Abhaya has over 30 years of diversified consulting experience in Finance/PPP and infrastructure advisory sector.

He has been instrumental in developing number of marquee infrastructure projects across many countries in sectors including water supply and sanitation, health, education, real estate, transport, and industrial parks. He is one of the leading experts on infrastructure and PPP in India and other emerging markets with extensive experience in project finance, strategy, policy framework, project conceptualization, procurement, capacity building and transaction structuring.

Besides India, he has extensively worked in more than 20 countries of Africa, ASEAN and Middle East. He has advised several IFIs on sector programs and transactions. He has led project teams which have conceptualized some of the largest infrastructure programs in India and East Asia such as Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor and infrastructure corridors for Philippines and Indonesia. Further, he has developed PPP frameworks of Bhutan, Philippines, Somalia and India.

Abhaya has also been an active participant on panels discussions, lectures and workshops relating to water and public infrastructure development. Some of the recent conferences include Indian Infrastructure Conference on Desalination; Indian Infrastructure Conference on Public Asset Monetisation; and UNESCAP Regional Workshop on PPP & Capital Market Financing for Sustainable Infrastructure Development.

Abhaya's proudest achievements:

• Successfully closed Habibganj Railway Station redevelopment transaction, India’s first station redevelopment project on PPP
• Successfully closed India’s first integrated SWM project on PPP mode at Sonipat & Panipat cluster in Haryana 
• Successfully closed Vizhinjam port project, India’s first greenfield port on PPP

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Jon is a Manager with London-headquartered worldwide management consultancy Baringa Partners.He focusses on Strategy, Transformation Portfolio Management, and Business Cases, working with clients across a number of sectors, including most recently Policing and Health. Jon is also an accredited Better Business Cases trainer.

Jon's proudest achievement was helping procure COVID vaccines during the pandemic, co-authoring Business Cases which directly saved lives, and more recently helping secure investment for revolutionary new Data capabilities for the Health service.

Falko helps leaders double the effectiveness of their teams in a matter of weeks. In the best case, this can be done without hiring new employees or reorganizing.

This can be achieved by different approaches that can be combined in a way putting value creation in the spotlight. To mention a few: making work visible, getting things done, team topologies, the art of business value, coaching habit and moving from a project to a product or even service mindset.

• https://vempio.de/podcast/ Podcast “DevOps from your ears straight to the brain” mostly in German language but with quite a few English episodes, too.
• Trainings in cooperation with DASA (DevOps Agile Skills Association)
  • DASA DevOps Professional - Specify and Verify – DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA) co-author
  • DASA DevOps Certification Program (devopsagileskills.org) as trainer
• Trainings with colleagues of vempio
  • English: DevOps Basics, Scaling DevOps, DevOps in Embedded Systems, DevOps Value Streams
  • German: DevOps Grundlagen, DevOps in der Praxis, Skalierung von DevOps, DevOps Wertströme
• First graduate and best of class in Engineering IT Master at University Magdeburg

Imtiaz is currently a trainer focused on Business Analyst and Project Management courses. He also mentors junior Business Analysts who are on the UK Business Analyst Apprentice scheme and speaks at conferences including Agile on the Beach and the IIBA Conference in South Africa in 2022. 

Imtiaz's proudest achievement has been supporting junior business analysts in their professional development, increasing their skills level, helping them to be more confident BA’s and achieving success in their career, including pay rises and promotions.