Reviewing a completed change
Provides a benefit-by-benefit assessment of what the change delivers against its business case. Distinguishes realised, partially realised, unrealised and not-yet-measurable benefits, with reasons for each judgement.
— Operations & Process
Benefits realisation review
Compares promised business-case benefits against actuals, computes the variance per benefit, and judges each as realised, partial or not realised with the recovery action needed.
- Operations & Process
- Traceable reasoning
- Runs anywhere
1–2 weeks → ~25 minutes
For a full population, not a sample
No coding required
- Input
- Business case benefits and supporting assumptions
- Output
- Benefits realisation scorecard with status and supporting rationale
- Runs in
- Skillsize · ChatGPT · Claude · Copilot
- Export
- SKILL.md · MCP
- Time saved
- ~1–2 weeks per run
— USE CASES
What people use Benefits realisation review for
Addressing benefits at risk
Identifies shortfalls against agreed targets and sets out what recovery requires. Gives sponsors a clear basis for deciding where corrective action is warranted.
Testing claims of impact
Examines whether reported benefits are attributable to the change rather than unrelated movements in performance. Makes uncertainty explicit where the evidence does not support a firm conclusion.
Informing future business cases
Captures lessons from the gap between promised and realised benefits. Highlights assumptions, measurement limitations and attribution issues that future investment cases need to address.
What it works from
- Business case benefits and supporting assumptions
- Baseline, target and actual performance data for each benefit
- Measurement periods and expected benefit delivery dates
- Evidence linking outcomes to the change and relevant external factors
What you get back
- Benefits realisation scorecard with status and supporting rationale
- Benefit-by-benefit variance analysis with explicit arithmetic
- Assessment of attribution and measurement limitations
- Recovery actions for unrealised and at-risk benefits responsible for shortfalls
— HOW IT BEHAVES
How Benefits realisation review produces its result
The mechanics behind this specific template — what it reads, what it calculates, and where a human stays in the loop.
Every row of the end-to-end process
Each row of your export is processed on the same basis, so no process step is skipped however long the table is.
Composed as work product
Findings on the end-to-end process are written up as a document that reads like professional output, with each claim tied back to a process step.
Each process step enriched in place
Derived columns are added row by row, keeping your source data and the judgement about each process step side by side.
Roll-up alongside process step-level detail
Detail rows are summarised into the grouped view of the end-to-end process without losing the underlying process steps.
Why this is expensive by hand
Business cases promise benefits that can be difficult to verify once a change is in place. In practice it shows up as reviewing a completed change: provides a benefit-by-benefit assessment of what the change delivers against its business case. Distinguishes realised, partially realised, unrealised and not-yet-measurable benefits, with reasons for each judgement. It is the kind of work that decides whether a recommendation survives scrutiny — and the kind that quietly eats 1–2 weeks of senior time whenever it comes round.
How this Skill produces it
Here the same job runs as a Skill. Your material goes in; benefits realisation scorecard with status and supporting rationale comes out, alongside benefit-by-benefit variance analysis with explicit arithmetic. The criteria, ordering and review points that make the answer trustworthy are encoded in the Skill itself — which is the difference between a structured method and a prompt someone pastes in. The practical effect: 1–2 weeks of manual work becomes a ~25 minutes run, held to an identical standard on the tenth engagement as on the first.
Who it's for
- Operations and continuous improvement leads
- Transformation and automation teams
- Service delivery and shared services managers
- Consultants running process diagnostics
Run it in Skillsize — or export it anywhere
Benefits realisation review exports as a structured SKILL.md file and is MCP-ready, so the same method runs in ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or your own AI products. Adapt it to your methodology, and the intelligence stays yours — not locked to one vendor.
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