Case Study: RSM & Microsoft Accelerate AI Innovation with Qarar

Overview

RSM, a leading global consulting firm, partners with Microsoft to help enterprise clients identify and implement high-value AI initiatives through the Azure Innovate Assessment program. The challenge? Every idea must be backed by a credible, CFO-ready business case to secure funding. That’s where Qarar comes in — helping RSM go from idea to investment-ready in record time.

Before Qarar: Slow, Manual, and Fragmented

The old way:

• Endless meetings to gather assumptions and current-state data

• Consultants and the client wrestling with clunky Excel files

• Delays waiting for Finance input before a single business case / ROI model could be finalized

Building and prioritizing business cases often took 6 weeks or more, bogged down by spreadsheets and version control headaches. Even worse, many cases lacked the depth and polish CFOs required to make confident funding decisions.

After Qarar: From Ideas to CFO-Ready Business Cases in Hours

With Qarar’s AI-powered platform, RSM transformed how business cases were built and validated.

In real time:

• RSM captured 40+ AI ideas directly from ideation sessions with their client

• Selected the top 5 initiatives and built draft business cases in 30 minutes — even without a finance background

• Finalized 5 complete CFO-ready cases in a single 1-hour meeting

• Delivered Microsoft-approved documentation aligned to funding requirements

The result: what used to take six weeks now happens in just one week, with higher quality and full stakeholder alignment.

Before vs. After

“Qarar has completely changed how we run AI ideation sessions. Dozens of raw ideas → CFO-ready business cases in hours, not weeks.” Colin Biggs, RSM Consulting

Key Results

• 5 business cases finalized in one meeting

• 40+ AI ideas evaluated and ranked by impact

• 6× faster delivery (weeks → days)

• Consistent, CFO-ready output across all clients

• Higher Microsoft satisfaction with measurable ROI documentation

How This Case Study Applies to You

Whether you’re a consulting partner, a business leader evaluating AI initiatives, or a CFO deciding where to invest, the same pressures exist:

• Are you evaluating AI or transformation initiatives that need to be justified with real numbers?

• Do you need to quantify impact to secure funding or client approval?

• Are you required to submit standardized, CFO-ready business cases?

• Do you need to compare and rank initiatives to decide which ones to pursue first?

If so, Qarar helps teams like yours move from brainstorming to boardroom-ready business cases in minutes, not weeks.

“We can clearly demonstrate project ROI to clients without guesswork.” John Bennett, RSM Consulting