Investment-based budgeting....
Essay: Why Budgeting is More Than Projecting Spending Trends
Executive Summary: Why Budget for Products and Services (Investment-based Budgeting)
| "My organization had been under-spending on information technology for years. With FullCost, at a time where other budgets were shrinking, my budget actually went up because clients favored the new process and were able to defend their worthwhile investments." |
Lew Davison
CIO, Missouri Highway and Transportation Department |
White paper: Best Practices in Budgeting
an introduction to investment-based budgeting.
White paper for CFOs and Budget Directors: Investment-based Budgeting
why CFOs should mandate an entirely different format for budgets.
Video Overview: The Leading Edge: Investment-based Budgeting
The problems it solves, the concepts and process, examples, and results.
SmartPros' Financial Management Network (30 min)
Video Case Study: The C-level View of Budgeting: Facts and Politics
From the C-suite perspective, how investment-based budgeting not only changed the financials; it changed the relationships between IT and the entire corporation's executive leadership team. (30 min)
Video Case Study: Service Costing and Investment-based Budgeting
State of Montana IT shares its reasons, implementation experiences, and results. (30 min)
Audio Case Study: Selling a Transparent Budget Is Easy
State of Montana IT finds ready acceptance at every level for its investment-based budget. (15 min)
<A HREF="fc-465.htm">FullCost: Audio Case Study -- Selling a Transparent Budget Is Easy
Case Study: From Adversaries to Advocates
how budgeting and product/service costing improved relationships between IT and its clients at Georgia State University. (2009)
Case Study: Can You Really Know Your Full Cost of Service?
how one CIO justified new rates and clarified the value of IT to clients
at Riverside County, CA. (2007)
Case Study: Re-inventing the Budget Process
the cost of success: interviews with CIOs on the benefits of budgeting for products/services. (pre-2008)
White paper: Activity-based Budgeting
what is ABB, how is it different from ABC, and where does FullCost fit.
<A HREF="fc-5965.htm">FullCost: Activity-based Budgeting
Story: Budgeting Is a Waste!
a short story on how standing up for the truth broke the cycle of misery and failure.
<A HREF="fc-1133.htm">FullCost: Story -- Budgeting Is a Waste!
Story: Operational Planning (Oct 2004)
why operational planning, budgeting, and rate setting must be a single, integrated process.
Overview: Steps in the Investment-based Budgeting Process
Story: No More Games!
Story: Our IT Allocation is Too Small!
