Make-or-buy economics: Business case assumptions and research pack

A make-or-buy assumption register: should-cost checks, quotes, production trials, switch reference class, dependency value, and kill thresholds.

Asset IDSTX-A0173

CategoryIntelligence and Research Methods

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Prepared byStratenity Advisory Team

Executive summary

A method for testing what sourcing an activity would save and cost, before anyone signs a contract.

What is inside

What the research pack covers

The asset walks a research lead through harvesting assumptions, grading them, ranking materiality, should-cost modeling, quotes, trials, a reference class, dependency valuation, and freezing the register. It ends with an assumption register, a source log, and research questions.

Turning a baseline into governed assumptions
Quotes tested against should-cost
Production-run trials for quality

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Stratenity Advisory Team. (2026). Make-or-buy economics: Business case assumptions and research pack. Stratenity Library. https://www.stratenity.com/resources/library/intelligence-research/make-or-buy-economics-business-case-assumptions-and-research-pack

Stratenity Advisory Team. "Make-or-buy economics: Business case assumptions and research pack." Stratenity Library, 2026, www.stratenity.com/resources/library/intelligence-research/make-or-buy-economics-business-case-assumptions-and-research-pack.

Stratenity Advisory Team. "Make-or-buy economics: Business case assumptions and research pack." Stratenity Library, 2026. https://www.stratenity.com/resources/library/intelligence-research/make-or-buy-economics-business-case-assumptions-and-research-pack.

Stratenity Advisory Team (2026) Make-or-buy economics: Business case assumptions and research pack. Stratenity Library. Available at: https://www.stratenity.com/resources/library/intelligence-research/make-or-buy-economics-business-case-assumptions-and-research-pack (Accessed: the date of access).

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