Common mistakes to avoid when writing business cases

How would you like to spend weeks refining your annual budget for submission to the White House, only to have it rejected because you misclassified an investment as information technology-related when it was something else?

It's not unusual. Roughly 25 percent of the business cases submitted by agencies to the Office of Management and Budget are incorrectly classified. That's a lot of effort wasted writing business cases from the wrong perspective. Even worse, an agency might not get approval from the Office of Management and Budget for a project that it needs.