Business · Business & Market
Business case
The argument for funding a product or project: the market and customers it serves, expected revenue and margin, development and unit cost, investment, schedule and the main risks.
It is approved before significant spending starts and revisited at later gates as estimates firm up.
- Type
- Business
- Domain
- Business & Market, Product lifecycle
Related terms
Part of the Business & Market glossary, with every term in the topic and the lifecycles, tools and standards that use them.
Where it appears on the Hub
Used on 96 pages of the Hub. In each group, the pages that mention it most come first.
Lifecycle stages and gates
- Business Case & Technology Choice (Fab build lifecycle)
- Concept & Business Case (Product lifecycle)
- Concept & System Architecture (Equipment lifecycle)
- Business case approval (Fab build lifecycle)
- Concept and business case approval (Equipment lifecycle)
- Technology Definition (Process node lifecycle)
- and 75 more
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