TBM Council Awards
Celebrating Over 10 Years of TBM Success Across the Globe
Recognition & Validation for Your Team
Over the last ten years, we have received hundreds of nominations, selected over 275 finalists, and awarded over 90 winners.
The TBM Council Awards provide a front-row seat to the rapidly changing technology landscape. Among past nominees, we’ve seen mass migration to the cloud, adoption of agile-at-scale approaches, and increased investment in digital platforms. These awards show us the formidable impact of TBM on businesses, their people, and their customers.
NatWest
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Tech, Ops & Firm Resilience Business Management
Morgan Stanley
2023 Awards Categories
Our judges evaluate nominees for tangible results such as cost savings, shifting money from run-the-business to change-the business, funding innovation programs, optimizing public cloud spending, and driving return on investment from project and product portfolios.
They also give weight to the increased confidence teams gain in their data as a result of TBM, and they consider how executives use TBM to change conversations with their business partners.
Cloud
Transformation
Transform the way your organization develops and supports business capabilities by using public cloud infrastructure, platforms, and/or software.
Cloud Transformation
The winner in this category has made significant strides in transforming the way they develop and support business capabilities by using public cloud infrastructure, platforms, and/or software. The winner uses the facts, tools and processes of TBM (and FinOps) to make (and track) the business case for cloud adoption, enable and govern cloud consumption, ensure cost efficiency (unit economics), and plan for growth.
Past Winners Include:
- Humana
- Pearson
- 3M
- Asurion
- Nationwide Building Society
- Standard Chartered
- UBS
IT Financial
Leadership
Satisfy corporate financial requirements for budgeting, forecasting, and reporting, while enabling business innovation, service delivery, cloud transformation or agile evolution.
IT Financial Leadership
The winner in this category uses TBM to both satisfy corporate financial requirements for budgeting, forecasting, and reporting, while enabling an array of other business outcomes such as business innovation, service delivery, cloud transformation or agile evolution. The winner uses the facts, tools, and processes of TBM to streamline, accelerate and/or improve financial planning processes, reduce or mitigate variances, and otherwise improve financial outcomes for the business.
Past Winners Include:
- Standard Chartered
- PepsiCo
- Micron
- American Express
- KeyBank
- CME Group
- The Clorox Company
- First Citizens Bank
- State of Washington
- John Deere
TBM
Pacesetter
Drive organizational changes of mindset and accountability for outcomes while implementing or enhancing TBM tools, data, and processes in a short period of time.
TBM Pacesetter
The winner in this category has demonstrated significant progress and value with TBM in a relatively short period of time. The winner demonstrates the ability to drive organizational changes of mindset and accountability for outcomes while implementing or enhancing TBM tools, data and processes. Value may be expressed in terms of reducing technology and/or business costs, accelerating or investing more in innovation, enabling the adoption of agile methodologies or public cloud services, or other goals that are important to the business.
Past Winners Include:
- R+V
- Micron
- eBay
- Transport for NSW
Service
Excellence
Support efficient delivery of shared technology services to line-of-business partners and consumers and continuously optimize cost to serve customers.
Service Excellence
The winner in this category uses TBM to support the efficient delivery of shared technology services to line-of-business partners and consumers and to continuously optimize the cost to serve internal and/or external customers. The winner uses the facts, tools and processes of TBM to provide a bill of IT for services consumed, communicate the cost and value of those services, and to support continued enhancements, modernization efforts, and other improvements to those services.
Past Winners Include:
- University of Pennsylvania (via Overall Performance award)
- HERE Technologies
- Great-West LifeCo (via Business Alignment award)
- Cisco
- FedEx
- Fannie Mae
- Nationwide Building Society
- BNY Mellon
Business
Optimization
Drive meaningful efficiencies in delivering technology to the business and/or in helping the business be more efficient through use of technology.
Business Optimization
The winner in this category has driven meaningful efficiencies in delivering technology to the business and/or in helping the business be more efficient through the use of technology. The winner uses the facts, tools, and processes of TBM to improve unit costs, find, and reduce waste, consolidate or rationalize technologies, automate labor-intensive processes, or drive other meaningful improvements in value for the money spent.
Past Winners Include:
- HP Enterprise
- Exelon
- UPMC
- Fidelity International
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
- Macquarie Group
- National Grid plc
Agile
Evolution
Incorporate TBM principles to scale Agile work and principles and shift from project- to product-centric operating models in partnership with financial teams.
Agile Evolution
The winner in this category has made a shift from project- to product-centric investment models and empowered agile teams to innovate within an overall financial investment framework supported by Finance and the TBM and/or Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) program. The winner uses the facts, tools, and processes of TBM (and LPM) to make investment decisions, track all resources (labor and non-labor) spent against their investment plans, and measure the results of investments over time (i.e., via OKRs or other KPIs and reports).
Past Winners Include:
- Chevron
- Lowe’s Companies, Inc.
Public Sector
Excellence
Use the transparency of TBM to plan investments, optimize costs, govern working capital funds, and make major decisions regarding modernization and other priorities.
Public Sector Excellence
The TBM Council established this new category to recognize the unique challenges that government agencies face. Many government agencies have adopted TBM practices that were born in the private sector. Although government agencies are funded differently, they too grapple with delivering digital capabilities, modernizing their portfolios, migrating to the public cloud, and moving to agile development models.
Past Winners Include:
- State of Washington
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
- United States Secret Service
Business
Innovation
Use facts, tools, and processes of TBM to invest more in innovation and accelerate or amplify business benefits from innovation investments.
Business Innovation
The winner in this category has been instrumental in driving one or more significant business innovations. The winner uses the facts, tools, and processes of TBM to invest more in innovation and accelerate or amplify the business benefits from the investments made in innovation.
Past Winners Include:
- R+V
- Credit Suisse
- Mastercard
- Royal Bank of Scotland (NatWest)
- AOL
- DIRECTV
- Stanley Black & Decker
2023 Judges
Our judges evaluate how nominees make strategic business decisions in real time using TBM. They seek examples of improved organizational alignment and accelerated, data-driven decision-making. We are honored to have TBM luminaries preside over the judging process.
Matthew Erickson
Sr. Manager, IT Governance and Controls
Olga Timofeyeva-Vogt
AVP & Head of TBM
Fumbi Chima
Former Chief Technology & Transformation Officer
Keith Barthelmeus
Global VP & CFO
Manik Patil
Head of Cloud Enablement
J.R. Storment
Executive Director
Frances Humphrey
Chief of IT Governance & Accountability
Amy Byalick
Vice President, IT Finance
Jim Gfrerer
CIO (Retired)
Chrys Warren
IT Director, Technology Business Management
Carollyn Gherke
Product Manager, Technology Business Management
Sunil Anand
Strategy & Technology Business Management Office
2023 TBM Council Awards Timeline
Winners and finalists will be recognized at the 2023 TBM Conference in Austin, TX where TBM and FinOps practitioners and executives will share experiences, collaborate, and master skills to steer tech investments with data-powered decisions. Additionally, winners and finalists will be recognized in press releases and social media posts.
We typically announce up to three (3) finalists per category, and one (1) winner per category. In 2022 we had our first instance of six (6) finalists for a single category. This has only happened once in 10 years.
Yes. If you know of an organization that deserves recognition for their TBM journey, please do. Be sure to include their contact details so we can reach out to secure their application.
Absolutely. Apply for as many 2023 TBM Council Awards categories as desired. Depending on your submission, the judging panel might move your nomination to another category if they feel it’s a better fit.
