Six Tips To Help IT Managers Prepare Financial Budgets Easily.

At the beginning of the year, it was time to compile the financial budget for the coming year.

For IT managers, budgeting is usually a pain.

How can we adjust the cost of continuous growth to make the best use of the IT equipment that has been put into use, and provide more valuable choices to our managers through the budget?

James Champy, a master of process reengineering, has proposed six ways to help IT managers make financial budgets more easily. James Champi,

As much as possible to do budgetary enterprise development, IT input also need to increase, outdated ERP system may not meet the needs of the development of enterprises, as much as possible to make the budget a little more, to avoid new IT investment when it is stretched.

Divide the budget into two parts, separate the daily maintenance budget from the old equipment upgrade budget, and mark the proportion of each part.

This is done in order to cope with some unexpected expenses, for example, enterprises need to increase the equipment expenditure in order to improve the supply chain or customer relationship management system.

Leaders usually pay more attention to the results of investment return, so we should simplify the process as far as possible in the budget.

Let the leaders know what benefits they can bring to the investment.

It can be more specific when describing, for example, how to improve work efficiency, how to improve customer service system and so on.

To understand the actual needs, there is a hidden waste which is often neglected by us. That is, the IT equipment resources actually used by employees are not directly proportional to their real needs, a large number of storage space is idle, or even wasted by some unused junk files, which will make unnecessary expenditures for the IT budget.

Looking at the problem from a different perspective, "do not know the true colors of Mount Lu, just stay in the mountains", do not think that you will know more about the situation than the cooperative companies. In another way, we may rediscover the problems with their standards and viewpoints.

In the process of standardization, we should not think that standardization is an old word. In fact, standardized IT equipment can save much trouble.

For example, to avoid incompatibility between new and old software versions, and to achieve the goal of improving work efficiency and accelerating the operation of the enterprise.