Blogs

The Proof is in the Practice: Real-World TBM Success Stories

By Jasmine Ellsworth posted 10-14-2025
Ever wonder what a successful Technology Business Management (TBM) implementation looks like in the real world? It’s one thing to talk about the principles of TBM—cost transparency, strategic alignment, and business value. It's another to see how leading organizations are applying these concepts to deliver measurable, transformative results. At the TBM Council, we believe the best way to understand the power of TBM is through the stories of those who have pioneered its use. That's why we've compiled a library of real-world case studies showcasing how our members are leveraging TBM to tackle some of today's biggest challenges. Explore Our Case ...

Preparing Your Organisation for a TBM Implementation

By Ajah Hester posted 09-08-2025
Preparing Your Organisation for a TBM Implementation Please note: This conversation was based on peer-to-peer engagement and shared experiences, not formal research. The insights shared reflect personal perspectives from within the community. Brewing Up Success: Insights on Preparing for a TBM Implementation Hello everyone! The TBM Council recently hosted an engaging "Coffee Chat" focused on "Preparing Your Organization for a TBM Implementation." This session brought together members of the TBM community to share insights and discuss the evolving landscape of technology business management. Attendees from various organizations shared valuable perspectives ...

Communication & Stakeholder Engagement in TBM Adoption Coffee Chat Blog

By Ajah Hester posted 07-31-2025
Communication & Stakeholder Engagement in TBM Adoption Please note: This conversation was based on peer-to-peer engagement and shared experiences, not formal research. The insights shared reflect personal perspectives from within the community. Navigating TBM: The Art of Communication and Stakeholder Engagement In today's dynamic environment, a one-size-fits-all message simply won't cut it. How can we tailor our communication to resonate with diverse personas, organizational levels, and business segments, all while driving value and building trust, especially when leveraging Technology Business Management (TBM) insights? This was the core question ...

Beyond the Books: Navigating TBM for Budget, Actuals, and Multi-Year Planning

By Ajah Hester posted 07-22-2025
Beyond the Books: Navigating TBM for Budget, Actuals, and Multi-Year Planning Please note: This conversation was based on peer-to-peer engagement and shared experiences, not formal research. The insights shared reflect personal perspectives from within the community. Hello everyone! The TBM Council recently hosted an engaging "Coffee Chat" focused on "Past, Present and Future with TBM – What challenges do you have to deal with when trying to use TBM for Budget, Actuals and Multi Year Planning?" This session brought together members of the TBM community to share insights and discuss the evolving landscape of technology business management. Attendees ...

Brasil Chamando! Primeiro Coffee Chat TBM em Português

By Ajah Hester posted 07-22-2025
Brasil Chamando! Primeiro Coffee Chat TBM em Português: Desfrute, Aprenda e Conecte-se! Observação: Esta conversa baseou-se no engajamento entre pares e em experiências compartilhadas, não em pesquisa formal. Os insights compartilhados refletem perspectivas pessoais de dentro da comunidade. Olá a todos! O TBM Council realizou recentemente seu primeiro "Coffee Chat" em português, conectando-se diretamente com nossos membros no Brasil para discutir as tendências emergentes de TBM que impactam o mercado brasileiro. Esta sessão envolvente proporcionou uma nova perspectiva e uma oportunidade para conversas valiosas. Participantes de várias organizações, ...

Brazil Calling! First-Ever Portuguese TBM Coffee Chat!

By Ajah Hester posted 07-22-2025
Brazil Calling! First-Ever Portuguese TBM Coffee Chat: Sip, Learn, and Connect! Please note: This conversation was based on peer-to-peer engagement and shared experiences, not formal research. The insights shared reflect personal perspectives from within the community. Hello everyone! The TBM Council recently hosted its first-ever Portuguese "Coffee Chat," connecting directly with our members in Brazil to discuss emerging TBM trends impacting the Brazilian market. This engaging session provided a fresh perspective and an opportunity for valuable conversation. Attendees from various organizations, including Tivit and Petrobras, shared insights and discussed ...

SPM & Agile Coffee Chat-Beyond the Buzzwords – What SPM Really Means

By Ajah Hester posted 07-22-2025
SPM & Agile Coffee Chat-Beyond the Buzzwords – What SPM Really Means Please note: This conversation was based on peer-to-peer engagement and shared experiences, not formal research. The insights shared reflect per sonal perspectives from within the community. Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) might sound like another corporate buzzword, but as we explored in our recent TBM Council Coffee Chat, it's a vital, low-investment, high-reward discipline. SPM empowers organizations to effectively plan, prioritize, and build towards enduring success, fostering a future-focused strategy that fuels productivity, performance, and prosperity. Our hosts, ...

What’s Brewing in Insurance: A Coffee Chat with the Insurance Workgroup

By Ajah Hester posted 07-22-2025
What’s Brewing in Insurance: A Coffee Chat with the Insurance Workgroup Please note: This conversation was based on peer-to-peer engagement and shared experiences, not formal research. The insights shared reflect personal perspectives from within the community. Hello everyone! The TBM Council hosted an engaging "Coffee Chat" with the Insurance Workgroup, bringing together members of the TBM community to share insights and discuss the evolving landscape of technology business management in the insurance industry. Be sure to connect with speakers Nathan Batchelder (Community Chair) and John Schlegelmilch from the Insurance Community workgroup! What ...

Starting TBM from Zero: A Coffee Chat with the Adoption Workgroup

By Ajah Hester posted 07-22-2025
Starting TBM from Zero: A Coffee Chat with the Adoption Workgroup Please note: This conversation was based on peer-to-peer engagement and shared experiences, not formal research. The insights shared reflect personal perspectives from within the community. Hello everyone! The TBM Council recently hosted an engaging "Coffee Chat" focused on "Starting TBM from Zero," bringing together members of the TBM community to share insights and discuss the evolving landscape of technology business management. Attendees from various organizations, including Juniper Networks and Stanley Black and Decker, shared valuable perspectives on initiating and building TBM ...

How to Turn TBM into a Process for Everyday Business Practices

By Ajah Hester posted 07-22-2025
How to Turn TBM into a Process for Everyday Business Practices Please note: This conversation was based on peer-to-peer engagement and shared experiences, not formal research. The insights shared reflect personal perspectives from within the community. Hello everyone! The TBM Council recently hosted an engaging "Coffee Chat" focused on "How to Turn TBM into a Process for Everyday Business Practices," bringing together members of the TBM community to share insights and discuss integrating TBM deeply into organizational culture. Attendees from various organizations, including UPS, Juniper Networks, and M&G, shared valuable perspectives on this topic. ...

The 2024 State of Technology Business Management

By Matthew Guarini posted 01-31-2025
I am excited to announce the results of our 2024 State of Technology Business Management (TBM) survey, providing you with a fresh look of the growing influence of TBM. We surveyed over 300 technology and finance leaders spanning 29 industries from 34 countries to get a true global perspective on TBM’s impact. This year’s research is a must-read for organizations either just considering TBM, just getting started with TBM, or for those that are trying to accelerate or innovate their TBM practice. It’s just one of the many resources provided by the TBM Council. TBM is how you unleash the business value of your technology TBM is the global standard that ...

5 Reasons Why TBM Practices Fail—and How to Fix Them

By Jeff Bartelli posted 12-20-2024
So, you’ve set up a Technology Business Management (TBM) practice, expecting to transform how your organization manages IT investments and aligns them to business goals. But somewhere along the way, things just… stall. Sound familiar? You’re not alone. Many organizations struggle to make TBM work, and the reasons often come down to a few common mistakes. Here are the 5 most common reasons TBM practices fail—and what you can do to turn things around. 1. No Executive Buy-In Why It’s a Problem: If leadership isn’t on board, TBM doesn’t stand a chance. Without executive sponsorship, it’s nearly impossible to get the attention, resources, and ...

Happy Holidays 2024

By Jasmine Ellsworth posted 12-13-2024
A Year of Growth, Innovation, and Impact As 2024 draws to a close, we reflect on a year of significant achievements and milestones. The TBM Council has been instrumental in shaping the future of Technology Business Management (TBM), driving innovation and thought leadership. We're proud of the accomplishments we've achieved together. Key Highlights of 2024: Community : Our global community thrived, growing to over 18,000 members across 70+ countries. We welcomed new leadership, including @Matthew Guarini as Executive Director, @Zahid Arain as General Manager ...

Modernizing Technology Business Management

By Matthew Guarini posted 10-24-2024
Modernizing Technology Business Management Framework 2.0 and Taxonomy 5.0 drive the next generation of tech value management As we approach the TBM Conference 2024 , it’s an exciting time for our community. Technology is more important – and more complex – than ever. Technology leaders are winning when they move beyond cost and show how tech delivers value for the company’s customers and employees. This is not a trivial shift, it is a critical one. CXOs require a proven approach for making data-driven decisions that encourage superior technology investments that deliver value for business customers, citizens, and employees. TBM is the global ...

TBM4Cloud Strategy Community _ Call for Cohort Members

By Niketa Purandare posted 04-04-2022
CALL FOR COHORT MEMBERS The TBM4Cloud Strategy Community welcomes cloud professionals whose organizations are adopting public cloud infrastructure (IaaS), platforms (PaaS), and software (SaaS) and are using or adopting TBM and related practices such as Cloud FinOps to manage and accelerate cloud adoption and outcomes. The TBM4Cloud Strategy community aspires to provide answers to all business-related questions on these topics . Overview of 2022 Agenda – Key Focus Areas: Cloud business management is an important topic of interest for Boards of Directors and Executives. The TBM4Cloud Strategy community aspires to provide answers to all business-related ...

Insurance Strategy Community _ Call for Cohort Members

By Niketa Purandare posted 04-03-2022
CALL FOR COHORT MEMBERS The Insurance Strategy Community welcomes TBM professionals from Property & Casualty, Life, specialty and other insurers as well as related risk management firms to discuss TBM-related challenges, share TBM best practices and strategies for addressing those challenges, and grow their professional networks. Recordings of prior events can be found here . Overview of 2022 Agenda: The COVID-19 pandemic has forced insurers to leave the status quo behind. Industry's pace for digital transformation has accelerated to survive and thrive. Leading insurers are taking bold steps to capitalize on structural changes in the ...

TBMC20 Key Moments: Keynotes, Roundtables, Awards, and More

By Jarod Greene posted 12-01-2020
As with so many conferences held in 2020 , this year’s annual TBM Conference was held online. Also … TBMC20 was among our best ! While we always look forward to being together face-to-face , b ringing TBMC 20 directly to you r home office meant we were able to provide more content than ever before : The flexibility to attend any TBMC20 session you want ed , in any order you want ed , mea nt TBMC20 attendees were able to avoid scheduling conflicts – t he whole conference was yours to enjoy. In fact , even though the live conference is over, you can still enjoy ...

Definition of Metrics for TBM Awards 2020 Nomination

By Todd Tucker posted 10-27-2020
The metrics in our TBM Awards nomination form (see question #8) are designed to help you perform an exhaustive analysis of the results you’ve achieved with TBM. It is not necessary that your answers are precise. Instead, use these to examine your TBM program and capture the results in which you are confident. You should be comfortable in talking about the benefits you claim, even if you cannot be certain about their precise values and you have instead provided reasonable, informed estimates. We will not use your raw answers as the sole basis of evaluating your program; instead, they will help us view your program holistically. Reduction of time to ...

Congratulations to the 2017 TBM Council Award Winners!

By TBM Council posted 11-20-2017
The 5 th annual TBM Council Awards ceremony this year in Las Vegas honored six outstanding companies and teams for their work with TBM. Over 1,300 IT leaders came together to celebrate 12 finalists, and hear their TBM stories ( see the videos here ). The twelve TBM Council Award finalists represented a wide range of TBM practitioners. Some finalists are at the beginning stages of building their TBM practice, but are already seeing impactful results. Others have a more mature TBM program, which is influencing decision-making at the highest levels of their organization. They are all change agents at their companies, and shaping the ...

2017: A Monumental Year for TBM Council

By TBM Council posted 11-09-2017
2017 has been a year of record growth for TBM Council. We’re excited to announce Mike Brown, VP of IT at ExxonMobil, has decided to sign on for a second term as the Chairman of the Board. Other highlights include the appointment of five new board members, advancements in the education mandate and record growth of the TBM Council’s membership base. “This has been a monumental year for the TBM Council,” said Chris Pick, President of the TBM Council. “Between the commitments from our growing board to our momentum in the public sector and the exponential adoption of our executive certification, this year’s accomplishments have really cemented the power ...