You’ve Been Asked to Explain the tech budget
Defending a budget you didn’t build, with data you don’t trust, on a deadline you didn’t set. We help you build the answer and the function that keeps answering. First working view in four weeks.
What you’re facing
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Tech is the biggest line on the P&L
Technology spend is the number everyone wants explained and the one with the least explanation behind it.
What are We Getting FOr all of This?
A fair question. What exists today is a record of what was bought, but not an answer for what it does.
CUTS HAPPEN IN THE DARK
When nobody can see value, reductions go after the biggest numbers instead of the weakest ones. Good spend gets cut with the bad.
YOU DON’T HAVE A TEAM TO SOLVE THIS
One analyst, a spreadsheet, and a mandate that touches finance, IT, and every business unit.
The Answer Is In There Somewhere
Most Companies Build the solution in the wrong order
You can answer the question once. Someone builds a heroic spreadsheet, the number gets to the board, everyone exhales. Then it's budget season again and nobody else can reproduce how it was done. Answering it once is an exercise. Answering it every time, with anyone able to trace the number, is a capability.
Most companies decide to go after the capability. This is where it goes wrong.
You don't need all of this, and you almost certainly don't need it at once. Most companies start at one of three points.
ASSESS
4-week sprints, targeted outcomes
TBM ASSESSMENTS, working solutions & ROADMAPS
A current-state read, a working cost model that answers one question on your data, and a 12-month roadmap sequenced by use case.
The operating model, review cadence, and roles that keep the numbers in use. Coached with your team until they run it without us.
tbm office support
& managed service
WHERE WE COME IN
BUILD
THE CAPABILITY, NOT THE EXERCISE
cost modeling &
service taxonomy
A service taxonomy, documented allocation logic, and a cost model built to how the business consumes technology. Delivered as a bill of IT your CFO and business leaders can understand.
governance &
adoption coaching
Senior practitioners running the monthly refresh, the reporting pack, and the business-owner reviews. We act as an embedded team, or as interim staff while the seat is open.
tbm tool implementation
& architecture
Platform selection, data architecture, and model build (e.g., Apptio, Yarken, Serviceware, Nicus). Including a straight answer on whether a platform earns its keep yet.
RUN
A FRACTIONAL TBM OFFICE
tbm TRAINING/workshop &
STAKEHOLDER ENABLEMENT
Workshops and executive briefings that give IT, finance, and the business one vocabulary for cost, service, and value.
why falconbridge
WE RIGHT-SIZE TBM TO YOUR ORGANIZATION RATHER THAN FOLLOW THE BIG BOX PLAYBOOK
We’ve built cost models and IT operating models inside some of the largest and most complex enterprises in the world. We’ve taken the stress-tested disciplines and right-sized them to what actually fits your organization.
Our Job is To Become Progressively Less Necessary.
WHAT SETS US APART
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We Helped Write the TBM Standards
Our leaders served as voting members on the TBM Council Standards Committee, helping write the taxonomy most TBM programs now follow. We were building custom Apptio cost models before the ATUM framework existed.
We PRIORITIZE THE PROCESS, NOT THE TOOL
We’ve built these models in spreadsheets, with BI and custom databases, and in the enterprise TBM platforms. The process is the constant, the tool changes how much of it is automated. That’s why we’re comfortable telling you when you don’t need one.
We Obsess over OUTCOMEs, Not transparency
We’ve identified over $30M in cost optimization, we’ve stood up a chargeback model, and we’ve redesigned budgeting and forecasting processes. We love transparency, but we obsess over what you do with it.
We Measure Success By What Sticks
We don’t make slides to just live on a SharePoint site and gather dust. Our first deliverable is a working artifact to solve your problem. And our engagement doesn’t end when the model is built. It ends when your team is running it.
BRING THE QUESTION YOU’RE BEING ASKED
Whether you’re starting from scratch, restarting a program that stalled, or running a function that needs to scale — thirty minutes, no pitch deck. We’ll work out where you actually are and how we can support you.
