Business Case and Feasibility Analysis

Business Case and Feasibility Analysis is a structured pre-investment evaluation process that determines whether a proposed information system acquisition, development, or implementation should proceed. A business case documents the justification for the investment — articulating the problem being solved, expected benefits, estimated costs, risks, and alternatives considered. Feasibility analysis independently assesses four dimensions: (1) Financial feasibility — whether the investment generates acceptable return, evaluated through NPV, IRR, and payback period; (2) Technical feasibility — whether the technology can be built, integrated, and sustained given current and projected capabilities; (3) Operational feasibility — whether the organization can absorb and effectively use the system given staffing, processes, and culture; and (4) Schedule feasibility — whether the project can be delivered within acceptable time constraints given dependencies, resource availability, and business windows. Together, these four dimensions produce a governance-ready go/no-go (or conditional-proceed) decision package. This is NOT a project plan (which governs execution after approval), NOT a requirements document (which defines what to build), and NOT a post-implementation review (which validates whether assumptions held true after delivery).