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Bottom-Up Cost Model

Mergen builds cost models from the ground up, itemizing licensing, implementation, and run costs instead of relying on rough top-down estimates.

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Bottom-Up Cost Model

Mergen builds cost models from the ground up, itemizing licensing, implementation, and run costs instead of relying on rough top-down estimates.

Mergen Delivered:
Finance-ready evidence
Assumptions fully traceable

Benefit Validation

Mergen sources and stress-tests every benefit assumption against real data, so projected value survives scrutiny before it reaches the steering committee.

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Benefit Validation

Mergen sources and stress-tests every benefit assumption against real data, so projected value survives scrutiny before it reaches the steering committee.

Mergen Delivered:
Finance-ready evidence
Assumptions fully traceable

Sensitivity Analysis

Mergen tests how the business case holds up under different assumptions, showing which variables actually move the outcome and by how much.

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Sensitivity Analysis

Mergen tests how the business case holds up under different assumptions, showing which variables actually move the outcome and by how much.

Mergen Delivered:
Finance-ready evidence
Assumptions fully traceable

Payback & IRR Modelling

Mergen calculates payback period and internal rate of return, giving finance a standard financial lens to evaluate the investment against other capital priorities.

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Payback & IRR Modelling

Mergen calculates payback period and internal rate of return, giving finance a standard financial lens to evaluate the investment against other capital priorities.

Mergen Delivered:
Finance-ready evidence
Assumptions fully traceable

Why Choose Mergen For Business Case

01

Every Assumption Sourced

Mergen documents where each benefit and cost assumption comes from, so the business case withstands direct questioning rather than requiring blind trust.

02

Built For First-Read Approval

Mergen structures business cases the way finance actually evaluates investment, reducing the back-and-forth that usually stretches approval across multiple review cycles.

03

Grounded In Delivery Reality

Mergen’s cost and timeline assumptions come from teams that also deliver the implementation, not from a separate advisory function estimating from the outside.

Proven Approach To Business Case Delivery

A structured methodology refined across enterprise business case engagements, adapted to how each organization’s finance function actually evaluates investment.

01

Discover & Assess

Mergen gathers current cost baselines, benefit hypotheses, and the financial criteria the organization uses to evaluate platform investment.

02

Design & Architect

Mergen builds the bottom-up cost model and benefit framework, structuring both to match how the finance function expects to see the numbers.

03

Build & Deliver

Mergen runs sensitivity analysis and payback and IRR modelling, then packages the business case for a single steering committee review.

04

Optimize & Scale

Mergen revisits benefit assumptions against actual delivered value after go-live, keeping the business case honest as a reference for future investment decisions.