Building an Effective Business Case in Aviation

1-day (8 hours) classroom course

IATA's Building an Effective Business Case in Aviation course concentrates on the fundamental concepts and most valuable strategies for creating a successful business case. It emphasizes the significance of adopting a business case-oriented approach to decision-making, elucidates the value of business cases, and sheds light on how you can transform sound business concepts into influential commercial and/or operational projects. You will engage in hands-on exercises, exchange your business ideas, and learn how to turn those ideas into successful business cases.

Course Code: ALC034VEEN01

Course format

• This classroom course provides 1 day (8 hours) of instruction delivered by an official IATA Instructor.
• Take this course at an IATA Training Center, Regional Training Partner, or on-demand as in-house training.
• Student performance will be based on an assessment.

Prerequisites

• Recommended level is Entry-level and Intermediate.
• The recommended level of language proficiency is ICAO Operational Level 4 or the equivalent for courses held in languages other than English.

How to register

• When you click the Register button, you will be directed to log in to your Training Account.
• Register early and save up to 25% at our Training Centers! Please read the Terms and Conditions for the early bird discount.

In-house training

To arrange in-house training for your company, please complete the in-house training request form or contact the Training Specialist in your region.

Upon completing this course, you will be able to:

• Build awareness about what an effective business case is, and why it is needed
• Recognize the main factors that make a business case a good business case
• Describe how Airlines and others use best base practices to drive innovation via business cases
• Assess what a successful business case looks like and learn how to build effective business cases
• List practical examples to recognize which KPIs are used to measure business case efficiency

The key topics that are covered during this course include:

• Business idea: origin, purpose and objective
• Why is the business case approach needed?
• The main criteria of an effective business case
• Business case KPIs and questions checklist
• Practical examples of business cases
• Building a business case together

Activities

• Self-study material
• Exercises, case study
• Assessment

This course is recommended for:

• Flight and cabin operations professionals
• Engineers, MRO and tech services managers
• Ops managers (GO, OCC, Safety, Compliance)
• New and aspiring aviation industry entrants

An IATA Certificate of Completion is awarded to participants obtaining a grade of 70% or higher on an assessment. A special distinction is awarded to participants obtaining a grade of 90% or higher.