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AEGITz IT Budget Model
Percentage-of-revenue benchmarks are close to useless. A category-by-category model for building an IT budget you can defend, plus the costs that are always missing.
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Build an IT budget from six categories rather than a percentage of revenue: run the business, secure the business, improve the business, hardware refresh accrual, insurance and risk transfer, and a contingency reserve of ten to fifteen percent. A defensible shape is roughly 55 to 65 percent run, 15 to 25 percent secure, and 10 to 20 percent improve.
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