Investment Funding in ITBM -
- Investment Funding helps to plan and manage the funds by allocating appropriately to Investment entities like Portfolio or a Program
- It helps Leadership to prioritize the investments based on Organizational goals and business objective
Important Personas to keep in mind and their key activities -
- Investment Planner - Creates Top level Investments, add funds to Top level Investments, reviews and allocates funds
- Investment User - Requests and manages funds for their respective Investments, add funding sources
High Level Process Flow -
Approach - Investment funding supports both funding approaches
- Top-down approach - Allocate funds to an entity to achieve business goal E.g - Portfolio Leader creates Top Level Investments >> Add funds >> Allocate funds to Programs >> Program Manager allocates funds to Projects
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Bottom-up approach - Request fund from a funding source E.g – Project Manager request funds to Program >> Program Managers receives all Project fund requests >> Program Manager request funds to Portfolio Leader >> Portfolio Leader reviews fund request and allocates funds
A simple yet a robust application to help organizations manage the Investments by giving a holistic view of all the Investments, funding and sources.
Additional workflows can be configured to send email notifications at different stages of the funding lifecycle.
