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ABPA 模板 11:Business Case

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AI Business Case

Use this to justify funding, pilot expansion, or production rollout. The case should connect workflow metrics to money, risk, and strategic value.

Investment Summary

FieldAnswer
Initiative
Business owner
Product owner
Time horizon
Funding requested
Decision requestedfund discovery / fund pilot / scale / stop

Baseline

MetricCurrent valueSourceConfidenceNotes
Cases / transactions per periodlow / medium / high
Average handling timelow / medium / high
Fully loaded hourly costlow / medium / high
Rework ratelow / medium / high
Error / defect ratelow / medium / high
SLA breach ratelow / medium / high
Compliance / loss exposurelow / medium / high

Benefit Model

BenefitFormulaConservativeExpectedUpsideEvidence
Time savedcases x minutes saved x hourly cost
Rework avoidedcases x rework reduction x cost per rework
Error reductionincidents avoided x impact per incident
Faster SLAbreaches avoided x impact
Capacity creationcases handled without headcount increase
Risk reductionexpected loss reduction

Cost Model

Cost itemOne-timeRecurringOwnerNotes
Discovery and BA work
Engineering build
Data preparation / labeling
Model / API usage
Infrastructure
Security and compliance review
Training and change management
Support and operations

Unit Economics

MetricFormulaValue
Cost per AI-assisted casemonthly AI + platform cost / assisted cases
Savings per casebaseline cost per case - new cost per case
Net value per casesavings per case - AI cost per case
Break-even volumefixed cost / net value per case
Payback periodinvestment / monthly net benefit

Scenario Analysis

ScenarioAdoptionQuality liftCost per caseMonthly net benefitPayback
Conservative
Expected
Upside

Strategic Value

ValueDescriptionEvidenceHow to measure
Customer / user experience
Operational resilience
Compliance posture
Knowledge capture
Platform reuse
Competitive differentiation

Risk-Adjusted View

RiskProbabilityImpactMitigation costResidual exposure
Low adoptionlow / medium / high
Quality below thresholdlow / medium / high
Data access delaylow / medium / high
Compliance concernlow / medium / high
Vendor / model cost increaselow / medium / high

Funding Gates

GateFunding release conditionEvidence requiredDecision
Discoveryopportunity canvas, baseline, stakeholder evidencego / stop
Pilotprototype, eval report, data readinessgo / stop
Productionsecurity review, operating model, adoption plango / stop
Scalerealized value, stable controls, reuse plango / stop

Recommendation

FieldAnswer
Recommended decision
Why now
Minimum viable funding
Main assumption to validate
Stop rule