The Technology Business Management (TBM) Council Awards 2020

1. Enter your contact information below: *This question is required.

First Name

Last Name

Title

Company Name

Email Address

2. Who is the executive sponsor/champion of TBM?

4. On a scale of 1 to 5 how effective has TBM been in driving outcomes and making informed business decisions?

Not effective at all

Moderately effective

Highly effective

Space Cell	Significant progress/improvement	Moderate progress/improvement	Little progress/improvement	Not applicable
Better financial transparency	Better financial transparency: Significant progress/improvement	Better financial transparency: Moderate progress/improvement	Better financial transparency: Little progress/improvement	Better financial transparency: Not applicable
Increase cost efficiency of run-the-business spending	Increase cost efficiency of run-the-business spending: Significant progress/improvement	Increase cost efficiency of run-the-business spending: Moderate progress/improvement	Increase cost efficiency of run-the-business spending: Little progress/improvement	Increase cost efficiency of run-the-business spending: Not applicable
Increase ROI of change-the-business spending	Increase ROI of change-the-business spending: Significant progress/improvement	Increase ROI of change-the-business spending: Moderate progress/improvement	Increase ROI of change-the-business spending: Little progress/improvement	Increase ROI of change-the-business spending: Not applicable
Understand and control cloud costs and usage	Understand and control cloud costs and usage: Significant progress/improvement	Understand and control cloud costs and usage: Moderate progress/improvement	Understand and control cloud costs and usage: Little progress/improvement	Understand and control cloud costs and usage: Not applicable
Improve conversations and decisions with your business partners	Improve conversations and decisions with your business partners: Significant progress/improvement	Improve conversations and decisions with your business partners: Moderate progress/improvement	Improve conversations and decisions with your business partners: Little progress/improvement	Improve conversations and decisions with your business partners: Not applicable
Accelerate or improve adoption of agile methodologies (e.g., Scaled Agile Framework, Large Scale Scrum, etc.)	Accelerate or improve adoption of agile methodologies (e.g., Scaled Agile Framework, Large Scale Scrum, etc.): Significant progress/improvement	Accelerate or improve adoption of agile methodologies (e.g., Scaled Agile Framework, Large Scale Scrum, etc.): Moderate progress/improvement	Accelerate or improve adoption of agile methodologies (e.g., Scaled Agile Framework, Large Scale Scrum, etc.): Little progress/improvement	Accelerate or improve adoption of agile methodologies (e.g., Scaled Agile Framework, Large Scale Scrum, etc.): Not applicable
Accelerate the move towards a service-oriented model (IT service management)	Accelerate the move towards a service-oriented model (IT service management): Significant progress/improvement	Accelerate the move towards a service-oriented model (IT service management): Moderate progress/improvement	Accelerate the move towards a service-oriented model (IT service management): Little progress/improvement	Accelerate the move towards a service-oriented model (IT service management): Not applicable
Improve compliance with regulatory requirements	Improve compliance with regulatory requirements: Significant progress/improvement	Improve compliance with regulatory requirements: Moderate progress/improvement	Improve compliance with regulatory requirements: Little progress/improvement	Improve compliance with regulatory requirements: Not applicable

8. Please share the quantified outcomes your organization has derived from TBM.
While it is not mandatory to state all outcomes, answer as many as possible and as applicable to your TBM adoption.

Please refer to the follow blog post for further details and advice about these metrics:
https://tbmcouncil.jiveon.com/community/tbm-council-home/tbmc/blog/2020/06/19/definition-of-metrics-for-tbm-awards-2020-nomination

	Reduction of time to your benefit realization
	Overall IT cost reduction
	Reduction of time taken to answer ad-hoc questions about overall costs
	Reduction in actual spend to plan variance
	Shift from Run-the-Business to Change-the-Business
	Coverage across Reserved Instances / Savings Plans / Committed Use Discounts
	Cloud costs allocations (including untaggable spend such as support charges) back to cost centers
	Annual public cloud costs savings
	Reduction in actual cloud spend to plan variance
	Reduction in time taken to answer ad-hoc questions about cloud costs
	Increase in on-premise to public cloud migration decision speed (Eg: 2x, 5x, 7x)
	Reduction on migration cost overruns
	Reduction in on-premises infrastructure TCO spend
	Time saved in annual budgeting process
	Increase in forecasting cadence. (Eg: monthly / quarterly/ semi-annually/ none)
	Increase in discretionary spend
	Reduction in FTEs needed for Investment planning process
	Shift from "Grow-The-Business" to "Transform-The-Business"
	Reduction on non-performing investments (projects/products)
	Reduction in IT spend on vendors
	Annual reduction in employee hours in billing (showback) and/or chargeback (also charge/recharge) activities
	Reduction in IT spend on apps
	Annual reduction in employee hours in lean portfolio management (agile funding process) activities
	Any other benefit that you would like to mention

9. What has been the wider organizational impact? What are you able to do that you weren’t before? And how has this impacted cross-functional relationships in the business?

10. What was your confidence level - in your IT spend, cost, consumption, performance data - before TBM adoption?

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11. What was your confidence level - in your IT spend, cost, consumption, performance data - after TBM adoption?

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50%

100%

12. What other benefits or accomplishments have you achieved that are not adequately reflected by our questions above?

Areas of benefits might include:

Qualitative improvements in your department's relationship/standing with your business partners
Enhanced standing of the CIO, CTO or other CXO, such as inclusion in the firm's executive committee, better interaction with the board of directors, assumption of a digital leadership role (e.g., to Chief Information & Digital Officer), and/or taking on additional responsibilities for the company (e.g., back-office operations, other shared services)
Increased budgetary authority for IT/technology by demonstrating value and need for greater investment
Reduced risk and/or improved compliance

For any such benefits, please clearly describe how TBM has helped make them possible.

13. How has TBM helped you and your company deal with the disruption caused by COVID-19?

The Technology Business Management (TBM) Council Awards 2020

Nomination Form