Executive summary
A method for appraising international entry sequences and building an investment case the committee can test before the first country is funded.
What is inside
What the options appraisal covers
The asset walks an expansion lead through framing the sequencing decision, building candidate sequences within the organization's pace limit, valuing each from per-country register values adjusted for timing, learning, and capability risk, scoring readiness, reversibility, and peak funding, running sensitivities and switching values, and writing the investment paper with wave gates. It ends with a completed options matrix, a portfolio workbook, and a sensitivity table.
- Scope: choosing the order in which shortlisted countries are entered
- Building every sequence from the frozen country assumption register
- A standard set of sequences from biggest-first to learn-first and light-entry
- Timing, learning between entries, and the organization's pace limit in the economics
- Readiness, reversibility, and peak funding scored alongside value
- Sensitivities and switching values that show when the chosen order should change
- A decision paper with waves and gates the committee can hold to