What is the difference between ITFM and TBM?

IT Financial Management (ITFM) is the discipline of managing and analyzing IT spend. Technology Business Management (TBM) is a standardized framework for practicing that discipline.

It's usually the other way around: TBM is best understood as a framework within IT financial management. The reverse framing, ITFM as a subset of TBM, largely reflects how TBM has been marketer since its creation.

Do you need ITFM before implementing TBM?

In substance, yes. TBM presupposes the ITFM fundamentals: aggregated spend data, a service catalog, allocation logic, and clear consumption volumes. Without those, the TBM taxonomy produces a well-structured model that nobody trusts.

Who uses ITFM vs TBM in an organization?

IT owns and runs the practice, but different stakeholders see different views of the same cost model: technologists see costs by technology, business stakeholders see costs by service, and CIOs/CFOs see costs by business unit. TBM standardizes the vocabulary across those views.

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