Develop and Manage Your Infrastructure and Operations Budget

The importance of infrastructure and operations initiatives can be difficult to understand, even for other members of the IT team.
Each budget discussion feels like a battle to get as much money as you can.
You end up feeling like you’re expected to accomplish way more than you’ve been given the budget to do.
The budgeting process is frustrating and can feel like a waste of time.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

Budgeting is more than just a numbers game. What isn’t measured can’t be managed and hiding behind padded numbers isn’t going to help you in the long run.
Important infrastructure discussions are often put on the backburner. Leverage budgeting as a tool to talk about strategic issues and overcome disinterest.
Know your audience. Be prepared with a narrative of how your budgeting decisions will impact business operations.

Impact and Result

Begin by understanding business priorities for the upcoming year and develop your budget according to their needs.
Articulate how infrastructure and operations initiatives and projects support business operations and priorities. Know your audience and help them understand the implications of not implementing certain planned initiatives.
Let the CIO or business management know if you cannot meet all your objectives with the given budget. Clarify what you can realistically achieve and provide management options for how to proceed. They should be driving strategic decisions.

Develop and Manage Your Infrastructure and Operations Budget Research & Tools

Start here – read the Executive Brief

Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should tackle your infrastructure and operations budgeting process today. Review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the four ways we can support you in completing this project.

Develop and Manage Your Infrastructure and Operations Budget – Executive Brief

1. Assess and prioritize IT and business needs

List and prioritize capital projects based on the infrastructure roadmap and current business environment.

2. Develop the budget and obtain approval

Get your numbers right and obtain approver sign-off.

3. Manage the budget and drive continuous improvement

Track the budget and actively improve your budgeting processes.

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What Is a Blueprint?

A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.

Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.

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Guided Implementation 1: Assess business and IT needs

Call 1: Discuss changes to the IT and business environment for the upcoming year.
Call 2: Review upcoming IT projects and develop project prioritization criteria.
Call 3: Review the prioritized budget items.