Tag: budgeting

Despite projected increases in global IT spending to $5.7 trillion by 2025, companies remain caught in a funding dilemma where 70-80% of budgets maintain existing systems rather than driving innovation. Organizations can break this cycle through zero-based budgeting, innovation capacity reinvestment programs, modern FinOps for cloud optimization, and portfolio rationalization to unlock resources for growth.

In my last post, I talked about one type of governance—the make-a-rule-and-enforce-it governance style, which applies to standardization, controls, compliance, and other areas that can be handled through general rules. For that type of governance, the digital world changes nothing aside from making it substantially more effective.