Across many Survivor enterprises, IT budgeting has been plagued by battle lines set between the CIO and business management with seemingly conflicting agendas. Collaborating with colleagues will ensure that the IT budget addresses the proper business priorities over the long term and will aid in the transition to becoming an Innovator.
Let Me Count the Ways
There are four standard processes the CIO can choose to prepare an IT budget: incremental, zero-based, top-down, and bottom-up. A comparison of these processes is described below.