Value Realization Economic Case¶
The Value Realization Economic Case Offering Class establishes the economic case and value logic for a specified investment, initiative, product, platform, program, project, or portfolio.
Class Role¶
This Offering Class provides the structure for individual economic case Offerings.
The Azure AI Platform Value Economic Case instantiates this Offering Class for a customer-specific Azure and broader Microsoft Platform decision while preserving neutral counterfactual and evidence requirements.
Audience¶
This Offering Class is intended for executive sponsors, finance leaders, technology leaders, product leaders, board-facing stakeholders, and governance groups that need a credible basis for investment decision-making and value assurance.
Alescent Interpretation¶
The economic case should not merely justify approval. It should define the value to be realized, the valuation approach, the evidence required, the assumptions and risks, the realization pathway, and the governance needed to keep value from remaining theoretical.
Typical Focus¶
An individual economic case Offering may include:
- expected value and value at stake;
- valuation approach;
- value measures;
- baseline and counterfactual logic;
- evidence requirements;
- risk adjustment;
- event horizon;
- investment requirements;
- decision criteria;
- governance implications;
- value assurance options.
Expected Output¶
The intended output is an executive-ready value realization case that supports investment decision-making, prioritization, governance, and value assurance.
Individual Offering Requirements¶
An individual Offering based on this class should define:
- the specific investment or value context;
- the intended decision or governance use;
- the relevant valuation approach;
- anticipated evidence needs;
- key assumptions and risks;
- relevant priorities and effects;
- likely value assurance pathway;
- assumptions, dependencies, and exclusions.
Current individual Offerings¶
Individual Offerings may be scoped to a Platform, Product, Partner, Persona, Priority, sector, decision, or other value context. Their applied claims must not redefine the neutral Offering Class or portable Value Realization doctrine.
Guidance¶
The economic case should not replace legal, finance, accounting, tax, procurement, or board approval requirements. It should not create value participation terms unless incorporated into the applicable commercial instrument.