Implement an IT Chargeback System

Business units voraciously consume IT services and don’t understand the actual costs of IT. This is due to lack of IT cost transparency and business stakeholder accountability for consumption of IT services.
Business units perceive IT costs as uncompetitive, resulting in shadow IT and a negative perception of IT.
Business executives have decided to implement an IT chargeback program and IT must ensure the program succeeds.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

Price IT services so that business consumers find them meaningful, measurable, and manageable:

The business must understand what they are being charged for. If they can’t understand the value, you’ve chosen the wrong basis for charge.
Business units must be able to control and track their consumption levels, or they will feel powerless to control costs and you’ll never attain real buy-in.

Impact and Result

Explain IT costs in ways that matter to the business. Instead of focusing on what IT pays for, discuss the value that IT brings to the business by defining IT services and how they serve business users.
Develop a chargeback model that brings transparency to the flow of IT costs through to business value. Demonstrate how a good chargeback model can bring about fair “pay-for-value” and “pay-for-what-you-use” pricing.
Communicate IT chargeback openly and manage change effectively. Business owners will want to know how their profit and loss statements will be affected by the new pricing model.

Implement an IT Chargeback System Research & Tools

Start here – read the Executive Brief

Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should implement an IT chargeback program, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the four ways we can support you in completing this project.

Implement an IT Chargeback System – Executive Brief

1. Launch

Make the case for IT chargeback, then assess the financial maturity of the organization and identify a pathway to success. Create a chargeback governance model.

2. Define

Develop a chargeback model, including identifying user-facing IT services, allocating IT costs to services, and setting up the chargeback program.

3. Implement

Communicate the rollout of the IT chargeback model and establish a process for recovering IT services costs from business units.

4. Revise

Gather and analyze feedback from business owners, making necessary modifications to the chargeback model and communicating the implications.

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