Every year, most business owners approve an I.T. budget without being entirely sure whether the number is right. Too low and something breaks that could have been prevented. Too high and you are paying for capacity and services you do not need. The problem is not the math. It is the picture.
Most small and mid-sized businesses do not have a clear view of what they are actually spending on technology. Costs are scattered across a dozen invoices, subscriptions, and contracts. Some of them are capitalized. Some are expensed. Some are buried in department budgets. The result is a pattern of reactive spending: you buy things when they break, renew things when they expire, and upgrade things when someone complains loudly enough.
I.T. Budgets gives you a framework to change that. This book walks through how to build a complete picture of your current technology spend, how to organize it into categories that make planning possible, and how to set a budget that reflects what your business actually needs rather than what you happened to spend last year.
It covers the full range of I.T. spending: hardware lifecycles, software and licensing costs, managed service fees, cloud infrastructure, security tools, support and labor, and project-based investments. It explains how to benchmark your spending against businesses of similar size, how to identify where you are underinvesting and where you are paying for things that no longer serve you, and how to build a three-year technology roadmap that connects to your business plan.
The final chapters address the human side of I.T. budgeting: how to present technology spending to a CFO or board, how to evaluate competing priorities, and how to make the case for investments that do not have an obvious short-term return.
IT Support 101 Inc. is an independent advisory firm working exclusively with business owners and executive teams on the technology decisions they cannot afford to get wrong. No commissions. No vendor relationships. Just clear, honest advisory work on your side of the table.
