Develop and Manage Your Infrastructure and Operations Budget
Develop and Manage Your Infrastructure and Operations Budget
Make your budget strategic, not transactional, to build trust and credibility.
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Ineffective budgeting processes lead to:
“Gaming” the budget.
Mistrust and eroded credibility from business partners.
Failure to receive approval for important projects.
Improve your infrastructure and operations budgeting process to:
Build credibility and trust with business partners.
Make budgeting strategic, not transactional.
Manage your team better.
Module 1: Assess the Current Environment
The Purpose
Assess the current business environment.
Key Benefits Achieved
Identify the likely impact on IT infrastructure.
Activities:
Outputs:
1.1
Perform environmental analysis.
PEST analysis
Competitive analysis
1.2
Review business initiatives and priorities.
List of upcoming business initiatives and projects
Module 2: Identify and Prioritize Capital Projects
The Purpose
Rank-order upcoming capital projects by priority.
Key Benefits Achieved
Create an ordered list of recommended infrastructure and operations projects for the upcoming year.
Activities:
Outputs:
2.1
Incorporate IT projects and initiatives on your roadmap in the capital planning process.
Schedule of recommended projects
2.2
Create a capital project worksheet.
Completed capital worksheet
2.3
Develop and apply scoring criteria for capital projects.
Prioritized capital projects
Capital budget draft completed
Module 3: Develop the Operating Budget
The Purpose
Develop your operating budget and identify potential efficiencies.
Key Benefits Achieved
Create the infrastructure and operations operating budget.
Activities:
Outputs:
3.1
Conduct zero-based budgeting activities for a single account.
Account inefficiencies identified
3.2
Build the operating budget for your group.
Operating budget draft completed
Module 4: Drive Ongoing Improvement
The Purpose
Improve the budget process in a structured, repeatable way with input from the Infrastructure and Operations team.
Key Benefits Achieved
Build a plan for continuous improvement.
Activities:
Outputs:
4.1
Review your variance reporting practices.
Deliver, review, and action variance reports
4.2
Run a hotwash with your team to identify possible improvements.
Create an action list to improve your budgeting processes
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