Knowledge Base
Core documents and site pages that define the foundational models, taxonomy, and structure of TBM.
Article contents
- TBM Framework
- TBM Framework - Foundations
- TBM Framework - Model
- TBM Framework - Outcomes
- TBM Framework - Value Drivers
- TBM Taxonomy
- Taxonomy Extensions
- Connected Standards
- TBM Modeling
- Knowledge Base
- TBM Research
- TBM Use Cases
- TBM Adoption
- Case Studies
- TBM Council Awards
- Strategy Communities
- Software & Service Providers
- Partner Ecosystem
- History of the TBM Council
- Upcoming Events
- TBM Tuesdays
- TBM Conference
- Training & Certification
- TBM Practitioner Course
- TBM Executive Primer
- TBM Cloud Primer
- TBM Agile Primer
TBM Adoption
Materials that support the launch, education, and early adoption of TBM.
- Benchmarking TBM (page)
- Building a Path to Digital Success for the C-suite and Corporate Board (download)
- Certified TBM Executive (page)
- Developing a Use Case (page)
- Finance for Technology Professionals [training] (page)
- High Impact Use Cases (download)
- How Insurance Companies are Leveraging TBM (download)
- Hybrid Cloud Operations (page)
- Initiating Virtuous Cycles with TBM (download)(YouTube)
- Intelligent Cloud Adoption: Optimizing Cloud Decision Making with TBM (download)
- Join the TBM Council (page)
- Let’s Talk TBM: Pain Points, Progress & Practical Advice for Technology Finance Leaders (YouTube)
- Managing the Financials of Agile Teams: Solutions for Budgeting, Forecasting, and Capitalizing Agile Delivery Costs (download)
- Mastering Technology Business Management Adoption: Roles & Responsibilities (download)(YouTube)
- Navigating the Foundations of Technology Business Management (YouTube)
- Navigating Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures with TBM (download)
- Organizational Change Management for TBM (page)
- Risk & Security (page)
- Software & Service Providers (page)
- State of TBM (page)
- Strategic Business Case and Cost Benefit Analysis Template (community content)
- TBM & Agile (page)
- TBM & Artificial Intelligence (page)
- TBM & FinOps: A Guide for Connecting FinOps Teams, Data, and Insights to TBM for Comprehensive Technology Financials (download)
- TBM & ITFM (page)
- TBM Adoption (page)
- TBM Agile Primer [training] (page)
- TBM By Design (download)(YouTube)
- TBM Cloud Primer [training] (page)
- TBM Executive Primer [training] (page)
- TBM First Steps Guide: Building Strategic Alignment Between IT and Finance (download)
- TBM for Labor (page)
- TBM Foundations: The Data Behind the Decisions (YouTube)
- TBM Framework (page)
- TBM Modeling (page)
- TBM Modeling: Developing A Use Case (page)
- TBM Modeling: Data for TBM (page)
- TBM Modeling: Allocation Methods (page)
- TBM Modeling: KPIs & Metrics (page)
- TBM Modeling: Mapping Budget to Cost Pools (page)
- TBM Modeling: Mapping Financials to Cost Pools (page)
- TBM Modeling: Mapping to Resource Towers (page)
- TBM Modeling: Mapping to Solutions (page)
- TBM Modeling: Fallout & Data Quality (page)
- TBM Practitioner Course & Certification (page)
- TBM Salary Survey (page)
- TBM Taxonomy (page)
- TBM Taxonomy Extensions (page)
- TBM Taxonomy Migration Guide (page)
- Technology for Finance Professionals [training] (page)
- The Cloud Reality Check: Driving Intelligent and Sustainable Cloud Strategies (download)
- The TBM Executive Overview (download)
- Top Five Best Practices for Successful TBM Adoption (download)
Maturity
Resources to evaluate and optimize your TBM practice and reporting maturity.
- Benchmarking TBM (page)
- CFO of IT (page)
- Connected Standards (page)
- Ecosystem Membership (page)
- Evolving the CFO of IT Competency Model (download)
- High Impact Use Cases (Page)(download)
- History of the TBM Council (page)
- Hot Topics (page)
- Initiating Virtuous Cycles with TBM (download)(YouTube)
- Join the TBM Council (page)
- Let’s Talk TBM: Pain Points, Progress & Practical Advice for Technology Finance Leaders (YouTube)
- Mastering Technology Business Management Adoption: Roles & Responsibilities (download)(YouTube)
- Navigating Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures with TBM (download)
- Organizational Change Management for TBM (page)
- Organizational Value Drivers (page)
- Pulse Surveys (page)
- TBM Salary Survey (page)
- Standard Membership (page)
- State of TBM (page)
- Strategy Communities (page)
- TBM & Agile (page)
- TBM & Artificial Intelligence (page)
- TBM By Design (download)
- TBM & ITFM (page)
- TBM Adoption (page)
- TBM Agile Primer [training] (page)
- TBM Ambassadors Program (page)
- TBM By Design (download)(YouTube)
- TBM Cloud Primer [training] (page)
- TBM Ecosystem (page)
- TBM Foundations (page)
- TBM Model (page)
- TBM Modeling (page)
- TBM Modeling: Developing A Use Case (page)
- TBM Modeling: KPIs & Metrics (page)
- TBM Modeling: Mapping to Resource Towers (page)
- TBM Modeling: Mapping to Solutions (page)
- TBM Modeling: Allocation Methods (page)
- TBM Modeling: Fallout & Data Quality (page)
- TBM Practitioner Course & Certification (page)
- TBM Outcomes (page)
- TBM Taxonomy Extensions (page)
- TBM Taxonomy Migration Guide (page)
- TBM: Moving Beyond Costs (download)
- TBM for AI (page)
- TBM for Sustainability (page)
- The Power of TBM: Optimizing Operations for the C-Suite (YouTube)
- The TBM Maturity Assessment – Whitepaper (download)
- Transitioning From Time Cards to Agile Labor Management (page)
Research & Case Studies
Evidence and examples from the field—practitioner insights, industry implementations, and award winners.
- A Decade of TBM: The Journey of First American (YouTube)
- Case Studies (page)
- EDF Energy Delivers Defensible IT Recharging Across the Cloud and Traditional IT Services With TBM (download)
- History of TBM and the TBM Council (page)
- How Insurance Companies are Leveraging TBM (download)
- How John Deere Developed Sustainable Product Costing with TBM (page)
- How TBM & Product TCO Helped Lowe’s Modernize their Annual Investment Planning Process (page)
- How Transport for NSW Completed the Largest Merger of TBM Practices & Tools Within 6 Months (page)
- How UBS Is Using TBM and FinOps to Successfully Enable Their Cloud Journey (page)
- How the US Secret Service Uses TBM to Drive Significant Time Savings (page)
- How Wells Fargo & Lowe’s Align Infrastructure & ITSM to Organizational Value Drivers (YouTube)
- Investment Transparency with TBM Leads to Optimized Spend at National Grid (page)
- Leveraging TBM Tools & Processes to Drive Service Excellence at BNY Mellon (page)
- Liberty Mutual Transitions to Agile Delivery, Achieves IT Cost Transparency, and Accelerates Cloud Migration (download)
- MassMutual Uses Cost Transparency and Consumption-Driven Metrics to Accelerate Digital Transformation (download)
- Operationalizing Technology Business Management Cisco’s Playbook for IT Services Transformation (download)
- Re-imagining Work: Enabling Better Decision-Making for Greater Product Profitability and Increased Feature Velocity (download)
- Salary Survey (page)
- State of TBM (page)
- State of TBM 2021 (page)
- State of TBM 2022 (page) (download)
- State of TBM 2023 (page) (download)
- State of TBM 2024 (page) (download)
- State of TBM 2025 (page)
- TBM Awards (page)
- TBM Helps Commonwealth Bank of Australia with Tech Costs (download)
- Transport NSW Maximizes Cloud Costs, Performance, & Service Experience with TBM (page)
TBM Framework
Core documents and site pages that define the foundational models, taxonomy, and structure of TBM.
- Connected Standards (page)
- TBM & FinOps (page)
- History of TBM and the TBM Council (page)
- Organization Value Drivers (page)
- TBM & FinOps: A Guide for Connecting FinOps Teams, Data, and Insights to TBM for Comprehensive Technology Financials (download)
- TBM Foundations – Change (page)
- TBM Foundations – Data (page)
- TBM Foundations – Methods (page)
- TBM Foundations – Roles (page)
- TBM Foundations – Tools (page)
- TBM Foundations (page)
- TBM Integration with ServiceNow® CSDM (page)
- TBM Model (page)
- TBM Outcomes (page)
- TBM Taxonomy and NIST (page)
- TBM Taxonomy (page)
- Taxonomy Extensions (page)
- Technology Business Management – The Four Value Conversations CIOs Must Have With Their Businesses (download)
- The Original TBM Framework (v1) (page)
Executive Briefings & Strategic Summaries
High-level resources designed to build executive understanding and support decision-making.
- 2024 State of TBM (download)
- Building a Path to Digital Success for the C-Suite and Corporate Board White Paper (download)
- CFO of IT (page)
- TBM Executive Foundation [certification] (page)
- Corporate Partnerships (page)
- Executive Membership (page)
- High Impact Use Cases (download)
- Initiating Virtuous Cycles with TBM (download)
- Navigating Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures with TBM (download)
- TBM & AI (page)
- TBM & FinOps (page)(download)
- TBM & ITFM (page)
- TBM & Sustainability (page)
- TBM By Design (download)
- TBM Executive Overview (download)
- TBM: Unleash Technology’s Business Value (download)
- The Capacity Conundrum- Why AI Innovation Hinges on TBM Discipline (download)
- The Cloud Reality Check: Driving Intelligent and Sustainable Cloud Strategies (download)
- The TBM Ecosystem (page)
- The TBM Framework (page)
- Top Five Best Practices for Successful TBM Adoption: Recommendations from the TBM Council Adoption & Maturity Strategy Community (download)
- What is TBM? (page)
Hot Topics
Explore TBM across specific focus areas, aligned to current strategic and operational domains.
Agile
Artificial Intelligence
- State of TBM 2024 (page) (download)
- State of TBM 2025 (page)
- TBM & Artificial Intelligence (page)
- TBM Awards (page)
- TBM for AI Value Realization: A Guide to Optimizing AI Investments by Aligning Business Fundamentals for Maximum Value and ROI (download)
- TBM Taxonomy (page)
- Your Enterprise Isn’t Broken – It’s Disconnected (download)
Cloud
- Combining TBM and NIST Cybersecurity to Profile Risk and Justify Investment (download)
- EDF Energy Delivers Defensible IT Recharging Across the Cloud and Traditional IT Services With TBM (download)
- How UBS Is Using TBM and FinOps to Successfully Enable Their Cloud Journey (download)
- Hybrid Cloud Operations (page)
- Intelligent Cloud Adoption: Optimizing Cloud Decision Making with TBM (download)
- Intersection of TBM & FinOps: Perspectives from Finance and Business Practitioners (download)
- State of TBM (page)
- The Cloud Reality Check: Driving Intelligent and Sustainable Cloud Strategies (download)
- TBM & FinOps (page)
- TBM & FinOps: A Guide for Connecting FinOps Teams, Data, and Insights to TBM for Comprehensive Technology Financials (download)
- TBM Cloud Primer [training] (page)
FinOps
- FinOps (page)
- TBM & FinOps: A Guide for Connecting FinOps Teams, Data, and Insights to TBM for Comprehensive Technology Financials (download)
- Intersection of TBM & FinOps: Perspectives from Finance and Business Practitioners (download)
- Combining TBM and NIST Cybersecurity to Profile Risk and Justify Investment (download)
- State of TBM (page)
- TBM Cloud Primer [training] (page)
- TBM Taxonomy & NIST (download)