The Technology Business Management Council
The TBM Council is the global hub for executives and practitioners dedicated to running technology like a business. We equip professionals with standards, tools, and peer-powered resources—spanning modeling guidance, training and certification, research, events, and vibrant strategy communities—to advance TBM adoption and maturity. As a nonprofit stewarding the evolving TBM ecosystem, we also bring together partners, providers, and thought leaders to accelerate collective impact.
- Establishes global TBM standards and frameworks
- Facilitates global conferences, workshops, and peer exchanges
- Builds and coordinates a diverse TBM ecosystem of partners and solution providers
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Participate in Research
Join your peers in shaping the future of TBM. Your input fuels research that reveals how practitioners are compensated and how organizations adopt and mature TBM practices. By participating, you ensure the community has the insights needed to learn, compare, and grow together.
Become a Member
Membership in the TBM Council opens the door to research, standards, and resources that accelerate adoption and maturity. From training and certification to events and practitioner communities, members gain the insights and connections needed to drive business value through technology.
TBM Conference 2025
The TBM Conference is where leaders define the future of technology value management. Join us in Miami to engage with experts, discover best practices, and connect with a community of peers committed to driving results. Reserve your spot today.
What is TBM?
Technology Business Management (TBM) is the discipline for managing technology as a business. More than cost control, TBM equips leaders with a common language, a structured model, and actionable insights to connect technology investments directly to business outcomes—such as innovation, resilience, efficiency, and customer experience. Like ERP for finance or CRM for sales, TBM serves as the value framework for technology, transforming IT from a cost center into a source of measurable impact.
In today’s digital economy, organizations face mounting pressure to manage cloud, AI, ESG, and product transformation with clarity and speed. Yet many leaders still lack the visibility and shared context needed for confident decisions. TBM solves this gap by turning opaque spend into transparency, disconnected reporting into real-time insights, and fragmented teams into aligned decision-makers. Practiced worldwide, TBM enables technology to operate with intent, creating a foundation for stronger strategy, smarter investments, and sustained business value.
The Modernized TBM Framework
The TBM Framework is the essential structure for aligning technology investments with business value. In this latest release, the modernized Framework builds on a decade of community learning to connect the foundations, practices, and outcomes needed to turn financial and operational data into actionable insights. By linking costs and consumption to outcomes like transparency, optimization, and innovation, it provides a blueprint for making technology decisions with clarity and impact.
The TBM Taxonomy Version 5
The TBM Taxonomy is the global standard for organizing technology costs, resources, and services in a way that connects spending to business value. Now in its fifth major release, the Taxonomy is maintained by the TBM Council and provides the common language that enables IT, finance, and business leaders to compare costs, track consumption, and align investments with outcomes. By mapping financial data through cost pools, resource towers, solutions, and consumers, the Taxonomy creates a transparent view of technology’s role across the enterprise. It underpins TBM modeling and is extensible to modern practices like cloud, AI, Agile, and FinOps—making it a foundation for accountability and strategic decision-making.
Get Started With Use Cases
TBM use cases translate the principles of the Framework and Taxonomy into practical action, showing how financial and operational data can be applied to solve real business challenges. They turn raw cost, usage, and performance data into insights that drive accountability, optimize spending, and align technology with strategy. As organizations advance through use cases across maturity phases, they evolve from achieving cost transparency to enabling strategic optimization.
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Join the community, attend events, participate in webinars, and more.
TBM Tuesdays
Focusing on today’s hottest topics and TBM trends, weekly TBM Tuesdays webinars cultivate interactive conversations, discussions, and best practice sharing amongst the community.
Strategy Communities
Join one of our collaborative groups to discuss TBM-related challenges, share TBM best practices and strategies, and grow your professional networks by connecting with industry peers.
Ambassador Program
TBM Council Ambassadors are recognized leaders in the TBM community—experienced practitioners who share their expertise to help shape the future of TBM through mentorship, thought leadership, and peer engagement.
TBM Council Awards
The TBM Council Awards is our exclusive recognition program for organizations and individuals to share their TBM success stories and demonstrate how they’ve embraced the rapidly changing technology landscape while leveraging TBM methodologies and processes.
TBM Council Ecosystem
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The TBM Council connects you with a global community of executives and practitioners, research, standards, best practices, and education to propel your career and your organization.
The Council provides opportunities for regional and global service providers, software vendors, and other partners in the TBM ecosystem to sponsor, engage, and participate in the Council’s activities, events, training, and standards.
Discover
Explore the ideas, evidence, and insights driving the future of TBM.
Research
Uncover the trends, benchmarks, and practitioner data shaping TBM today.
Access our flagship State of TBM Report, explore compensation benchmarks in the TBM Salary Survey, or contribute to our focused Pulse Surveys on emerging priorities.
Hot Topics
Get the Council’s perspective on the issues shaping modern technology management.
Explore our latest positions and curated resources on topics like FinOps, ITFM, AI, Risk, OCM, Use Cases, TBM Adoption and more.
Knowledge Base
Your organized portal to TBM Council publications, templates, tools, and training.
Explore the resources the Council has to offer, from foundational guidance to advanced modeling tools.
Case Studies
Learn from peers who’ve advanced their TBM maturity, optimized spend, and delivered business value.
Dive into detailed case studies and TBM Awards stories from organizations that have put TBM principles into action.
