IT Financial Management

IT Budget — Executive Dashboard

The same Global IT Ledger as the full simulator, ranked and summarised for a first look: total spend, key insights, and the six charts a Board, CFO or CIO would ask for first.

Read the framework & methodology behind this tool → (ITFM, TBM Taxonomy v4.0, why three lenses)

This is an illustrative simulation, not a budgeting or planning tool. All figures are either generic sample data or numbers you enter yourself — nothing is transmitted anywhere; everything runs, and is saved only, in your own browser. It does not represent any real organisation. Figures are shown in USD millions throughout.

Executive Dashboard

Executive Position — FY2026 · Global IT Financial Management overview · Illustrative simulation · US$m

IT Spend — Actual by Quarter

Enterprise spend across Global/Internal IT and Business Units
ActualQuarterly budget phasing is not stored in the source model
View quarterly detail →

Where Does the IT Dollar Go?

Global IT spend by TBM Cost Pool
Actual $mVariance shown against plan
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IT Portfolio (RGT) — Total Cost of Ownership

CAPEX + OPEX from the Global IT Ledger. RGT = Run, Grow, Transform.
View RGT detail →

What Caused the Variance?

Plan → business-area movements → actual
View variance by category →

Global IT Spend by Tower — Variance

Top 6 by variance — the towers that most need management attention
View all 11 towers →

Central IT Consumption — Business Unit

Who consumes the spend that Central IT procures?
View all BU consumption →
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The full report continues below — the three lenses and every underlying KPI. The Executive Position above already is the budget-at-a-glance view; there's no second summary to reconcile against it. Enter or edit your own numbers on the full tool →

Read it through a lens

Same numbers, different question. Pick the audience.

"Are we in control of the number, and is it moving the right way?"

CAPEX by business area (US$m)

OPEX by business area (US$m)

within ±5% of plan
±5–15% off plan
more than ±15% off plan

The metrics behind each lens

The most commonly used IT financial metrics for reading a budget this way — the same ones underpinning Gartner's IT Key Metrics research and the TBM Council's own KPI (Key Performance Indicator) library. Every one below is computed directly from what you entered above; nothing here is illustrative or approximated.

MetricLensWhat it tells you
Spend vs. plan (budget variance)Board, CFOWhether the organisation is tracking to its committed number, and where the gap is concentrated (CAPEX or OPEX).
Spend by business area (Global/Internal IT vs. Corporate Support vs. Revenue Units)Board, CIOHow much of total spend is the IT function's own operating cost, versus non-revenue support consumption, versus revenue-generating delivery.
Run / Grow / Transform split (TCO)CFOWhether the portfolio is weighted towards keeping the lights on or building new capability — computed bottom-up from every ledger line's tag, across CAPEX and OPEX together.
Global IT spend by TBM cost poolCFOThe composition of Global IT's own budget across all nine standard TBM cost pools — labour, hardware, software, outside services and more.
Global IT spend by IT towerCIOWhich of the 11 standard TBM towers (within Global IT) is over or under plan, and by how much.
Tech spend as % of revenueCFO, BoardNormalises IT investment against the size of the business, so it can be benchmarked against sector peers rather than judged in isolation.

Metric definitions align with the TBM Council's published Taxonomy v4.0 and KPI library, and Gartner's IT Key Metrics Data research programme. Industry revenue benchmarks aggregated from published cross-industry IT-spend studies (see sources in the site footer). Used for illustrative purposes only.

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