CIOs wrestle with opaque run costs, project overruns, and board demands for digital ROI. VSI's TBM Practice pairs Saa
S tooling with advisory muscle to convert ledger chaos into actionable investment intelligence. Data Ingestion & Normalisation Automated adapters pull GL, cloud, asset, and timesheet feeds into a normalised data lake. AI categorises spend into towers–Compute, Network, End-User, Saa
S, and Innovation–while tagging business capabilities. Cost Allocation & Showback Rule engines apportion shared services across LOBs; cloud costs map to microservice tags; carbon coefficients attach to resource IDs, meeting CSRD disclosure. Managers view unit economics–cost-per-order, per-claims, per-API-call–daily. Portfolio Scenario Modelling What-if simulators evaluate on-prem exit, Saa
S substitution, or topology shifts. ESG sliders show carbon trade-offs; risk toggles price cyber-controls. CFOs see payback, IRR, and abated CO2 on the same chart, aligning tech bets to triple-bottom-line value. Governance & Culture Shift Quarterly value councils rank backlog by dollar-per-story-point and emissions impact; agile funding streams replace annual capex gates. Leaderboards spotlight teams beating velocity and cost targets, fuelling healthy competition. Proven Outcomes A med-tech firm cut shadow IT 26 % and freed $40 M for R&D. A government ministry migrated 60 % workloads cloud-ward, slicing carbon 35 % and achieving transparency mandated by parliament. Future Extensions Generative-budget copilots draft business cases; tokenised carbon credits offset high-compute projects; Fin
Ops-as-code APIs feed back into CI/CD for real-time spend guardrails. TBM with VSI turns IT from cost centre to strategic portfolio.
