Definitions:
Cloud FinOps is an evolving cloud financial management discipline and cultural practice that enables organizations to get maximum business value by helping engineering, finance and business teams to collaborate on data-driven spending decisions.

IT Financial Management (ITFM) is the oversight of expenditures that drives IT decision making required to deliver IT products and services. IT financial management helps an IT organization determine the financial value of IT services provided to its customers. The discipline is based on traditional enterprise financial and accounting best practices, such as mandating documentation of expenses and requiring regular audits and reports. However, IT financial management methods and practices are adapted to address the particular requirements of managing IT services and solutions.

Technology Business Management (TBM) is a discipline that improves business outcomes by giving organizations a consistent way to translate technology investments to business value by defining the tools, processes, data, and people needed to manage the business of technology. Based on a set of standard taxonomy and ITFM best practices that can be used by technology, finance and business leaders, TBM enables organizations to react quickly to changing market dynamics, make data-driven decisions, and align organizations around a common business objective. 
 
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* 1. What is your first and last name?

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* 2. What is your work email address?

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* 3. What is your current job title?

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* 4. Where is your department primarily based? (Select one)

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* 5. What is your company’s primary vertical industry? (Select one)

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* 6. What is your estimated total annual IT budget? (Select one)

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* 7. What is your estimated total annual cloud spend? (Select one)

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* 8. What is your company's current technology strategy? (Select one)

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* 9. Which teams does your organization have? (select all that apply)

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* 10. What is your FinOps, ITFM and TBM and maturity? 

  Pre-Crawl - haven’t started, but need to Crawl - we are getting the basics in place Walk - we have core processes running, but much maturing to do Run / Fly - we are continuously improving a built out practice Not Applicable  Don’t know or not sure
FinOps
IT Financial Management (ITFM)
Technology Business Management (TBM)

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* 11. Where do the teams report to? (matrix)

  Finance Technology Engineering Don’t know or not sure
FinOps
IT Financial Management (ITFM)
Technology Business Management (TBM)

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* 12. If you have more than one team, do the TBM or ITFM and FinOps teams partner together? If yes, please describe how.

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* 13. What are the uses cases / issues / processes you were trying to fix by collaborating between FinOps & ITFM/TBM (For example Chargeback/TCO/Budgeting/Migration/Optimization)

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* 14. If you only have a TBM Team/Practice, describe your level of satisfaction with reporting/analytics (Choose one of the following):

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* 15. Please describe the challenges between the FinOps, ITFM and TBM teams in executing company processes? (e.g. Gaining stakeholder buy-in, competing priorities, difficulty sharing data, etc.)

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* 16. Please describe any potential future changes for these teams? (e.g. Change to reporting structure for closer alignment)

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* 17. Are you willing to discuss this further with our team in a 30 minute virtual session?

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