best practices for it management: investment‐based budgeting
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Ignite Baltimore: Best Practices for IT Management: Investment‐
based Budgetingor
How I learned to stop worrying and love the budget.Prepared by: Eli Senter
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Investment-based BudgetingBudget for what you want to sell,not just what you want to spend!
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best practices in financial management
Slides by these guys….
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Eli Dean
Audience….
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IT Manager
CFO/COO
Targets
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Traditional BudgetsHow They (Don’t) Work
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Traditional Problems: Game playingBudget PaddingCutting fatLoss of trust
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Traditional Problems: Micromanagement
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“Do you really need another admin?”
“Is that training necessary?”
“Monitoring tools… I thought that was what admins are for?”
Traditional Problems: “You Cut”“Just do what is best for the business…”
Abdication of responsibilityDivorce from business goals
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Traditional Problems: “Missed opportunities”
Not suggesting new projectsConstrained innovationOr worse, eating your seed corn.
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Traditional Problems: “Black hole syndrome”
Lack of perceived valueYou cost too muchYou suck
Lack of demand signalPoor “more with less”
solutionsUnrealistic expectations
“We already gave you all that money! What are we getting for it?”
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Traditional BudgetsHow They (Don’t) Work Micro-management Game playing “You cut” Lost opportunities “Black hole” syndrome, lack of perceived value Poor decisions Allocations ≠ Utilization Unrealistic expectations
The way you
present your
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Chargeback and Allocation SchemesAlso fail.
• So. What can we do?
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Fresh Perspective Business within a business Clients = market
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Obvious Conclusion…. You don’t get budgets/allocations to pay your costs
You get money to buy your products and services
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Investment-based BudgetingD
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Negotiate the RowsSubmit the Columns for Tracking
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Chargeback and Allocation SchemesIn investment based
budgeting:Budgets can be related
to business decisionsBy turning the
‘checkbook over’ to internal customers, demand signal can be used to convert departments to entrepreneurships
Turn budgeting circus… um…process… into a meaningful discussion
• So. What can we do?
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