Budget and allocate resources
Tools that help you budget and allocate resources.
12 tools
- Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB) — Forces every line to justify itself instead of inheriting last year's.
- BCG Matrix — Decides which units get investment, which get held or exited.
- GE-McKinsey Matrix — Weighs market attractiveness against strength to size each investment.
- ASL Matrix — Sorts initiatives by impact and feasibility to fund the right ones.
- Pareto Analysis (The 80/20 Rule) — Finds the small few drivers that deserve most of the budget.
- Resource Audit — Lists what you actually have before deciding where to allocate it.
- Capacity Planning Tools — Matches resource allocation to what you can realistically deliver.
- Kraljic Portfolio Purchasing Model — Allocates buying spend and effort by risk and profit impact.
- MacMillan Matrix — Places each programme on a grid to decide funding priority.
- Cost Management — Tracks and cuts cost deliberately without touching what earns revenue.
- Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) — Ties resource allocation to a small set of measurable results.
- Options Matrix Tool — Lays funding options against shared criteria so trade-offs are visible.