Job to be Done / Budget and allocate resources
Description
If you are wanting to develop and manage budgets, ensuring optimal allocation of resources to support strategic initiatives then the tools below could be useful. You can also look for tools to get other jobs done.
| Tool | How it gets the job done |
|---|---|
| 5 Step Process for Turnaround Management | This process helps plan and distribute money and materials effectively to meet financial goals and complete tasks efficiently. |
| 6 Market Dynamics | 6 Market Dynamics analyzes market trends to guide financial planning and resource distribution effectively. |
| 6 Steps to Developing a Unique Selling Proposition (USP) | This process helps determine what makes your product special, guiding where to invest money effectively. |
| ADL Matrix | The ADL Matrix helps organize and distribute money and materials effectively for different tasks. |
| AI Maturity Model | The AI Maturity Model helps determine how well a company uses AI, guiding decisions on where to invest money and manpower. |
| ASL Matrix | The system organizes and assigns money and materials effectively for different tasks. |
| Achieving Economics of Scale | By increasing production volume, costs decrease, allowing for better planning and distribution of funds for various needs within a project or organization. |
| Adizes' Corporate Lifecycle | Adizes helps companies decide where to spend money and how to divide up their resources as they grow and change. |
| Agile Organization Design | By structuring work processes flexibly, it helps in efficiently managing and distributing financial assets within a company. |
| Agile Portfolio Management | Agile Portfolio Management helps in planning and distributing money and people effectively for different projects. |
| Agile Transformation Model | The process helps in managing and distributing funds effectively for different tasks within a project. |
| Ansoff Matrix | The framework helps decide where to invest money for growth and how to manage available resources effectively. |
| Available Market | This system helps determine how much money and where to spend it effectively for a project or business. |
| BCG Matrix | The BCG Matrix helps decide where to invest money based on how well products are doing in the market. |
| BEANE Test for Product Adoption | The BEANE Test helps determine how much money and time a new product needs for successful adoption. |
| Backcasting | By envisioning future goals first, Backcasting helps determine what resources are needed and how to distribute them effectively for financial planning. |
| Bain Business Unit Strategy | This approach helps decide where money and resources should go to make a business unit successful. |
| Balanced Scorecard | The system helps in setting financial plans and distributing funds effectively to support the organization's goals and strategies. |
| Barriers to Adoption | Identifying obstacles helps in planning and distributing funds effectively for projects or tasks. |
| Benchmarking | By comparing performance with industry standards, we can determine where to invest money effectively. |
| Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) | Setting a challenging long-term target helps in planning and distributing funds effectively to achieve significant objectives. |
| Blitzscaling | Blitzscaling helps in efficiently managing and distributing funds for growth and expansion. |
| Blockchain Strategy Map | The system helps plan and distribute money effectively for different tasks using a secure and transparent digital network. |
| Blue Ocean Four Action Framework | This framework helps decide where to spend money wisely and how to divide resources effectively for a project or business. |
| Blueprint for Growth | This system helps plan and distribute money and materials effectively for company expansion. |
| Boston Matrix | The matrix helps decide where to invest money based on how well something is doing and how much potential it has. |
| Bowman's Strategy Clock | This framework helps companies decide where to spend money wisely based on market positioning and competitive strategy. |
| Business Ecosystem Modeling Tool | This system helps businesses plan and distribute money and materials effectively for their various needs and projects. |
| Business Model Canvas (BMC) | It helps plan where money goes and what's needed for a business to run smoothly and grow successfully. |
| Business Motivation Model | The framework helps organizations plan and distribute money effectively for their goals and needs. |
| Business Process Reengineering | By restructuring how work is done, it optimizes spending and assigns resources effectively for better financial planning and management. |
| Business model scalability | By expanding a business plan, it helps decide where to spend money effectively to grow and manage the company's finances efficiently. |
| Buy-Sell Hierarchy | The hierarchy helps decide what to spend money on and how much to spend on each item. |
| Calculated risks | By analyzing potential outcomes, it helps in making smart decisions for managing and distributing funds effectively. |
| Capacity Planning Tools | Capacity Planning Tools help determine how much money and resources are needed for a project to run smoothly and efficiently. |
| Cause and Effect Analysis | Identifying factors impacting resources helps plan and distribute funds effectively for desired outcomes. |
| Change Management | Change Management ensures that money and materials are used wisely and appropriately for different tasks and projects within an organization. |
| Classification of Market Entry Strategies Framework | This framework helps decide where to spend money wisely when entering new markets. |
| Co-opetition | Co-opetition involves collaborating and competing with others to effectively manage and distribute financial assets for optimal business growth and sustainability. |
| Competitive Pricing | Analyzing market prices to effectively manage and distribute funds for various needs and expenses within a set financial plan. |
| Competitive Scenario Planning | Analyzing market competition helps decide where to spend money effectively. |
| Contingency Planning | Preparing for unexpected events ensures money and materials are available when needed. |
| Continuous Improvement | By regularly making things better, we can effectively manage and distribute money and materials where they are needed most. |
| Corporate Governance | Corporate Governance ensures that money is used wisely and fairly distributed to different areas within a company. |
| Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Framework | The CSR Framework helps companies plan and distribute funds effectively for social and environmental initiatives. |
| Cost Management | Cost Management helps in planning and distributing money and materials effectively for different tasks and projects. |
| Crisis Management | In times of trouble, it helps to plan and distribute money and things where they're needed most. |
| Critical Question Analysis | By analyzing key questions, it helps determine where and how money should be spent effectively. |
| Critical Success Factors | Identifying key factors for success helps in managing and distributing funds effectively for different tasks and projects. |
| Cross-Border E-commerce Strategy | This strategy helps decide where to spend money effectively for selling things online in different countries. |
| Cross-Industry Innovation | By adapting successful ideas from different fields, it helps decide where money and time should go. |
| Customer Experience Mapping | Understanding customer needs helps decide where to spend money effectively. |
| Customer Lifetime Value | Understanding how much profit a customer brings over time helps decide where to invest money effectively. |
| Customer-Driven Innovation | By listening to customers' needs and preferences, companies can effectively plan and distribute funds for various projects and initiatives. |
| Cynefin Framework | The framework helps understand situations to decide how to spend money effectively. |
| Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) Strategy | DAOs use a system to plan spending and divide money for different needs, ensuring funds are used wisely and fairly. |
| Decision Matrix | The decision matrix helps in comparing options to make smart choices on where to spend money effectively. |
| Deloitte's Growth Framework | The system helps decide where money goes effectively and ensures resources are used wisely for growth. |
| Delta Model | The Delta Model helps in organizing and distributing money and materials effectively for a project or task. |
| Deming's 14-Point Philosophy | Deming's approach helps in wisely managing money and assigning resources effectively for business success. |
| Deming's Five Diseases of Management | Deming's principles help ensure resources are wisely distributed for effective planning and decision-making in organizations. |
| Diamond Model | The model helps in organizing and distributing funds effectively for different needs, ensuring resources are used wisely and efficiently. |
| Diffusion of Innovations Curve | The curve helps decide where to spend money wisely based on how quickly people adopt new ideas or products. |
| Digital Maturity Model | The system helps determine how much money and where to spend it effectively for digital growth and improvement. |
| Digital Transformation Roadmap | This plan guides spending decisions to ensure money is used wisely for improving technology and processes. |
| Digital Transformation Strategy | A plan for change helps decide where money goes for things a company needs to do. |
| Disaster Recovery Plan | In case of emergencies, a plan ensures money and materials are set aside for unexpected events, keeping the business running smoothly. |
| Diversification | Diversification helps spread money wisely across different options to manage risks and make the most of available funds. |
| Dynamic Capabilities Assessment | Assessing adaptability helps determine where to invest money effectively for future growth and success. |
| Dynamic Capabilities Framework | The framework helps companies decide where to spend money effectively and efficiently. |
| Economies of Scale | By producing more, costs per unit decrease, allowing for better planning and distribution of funds for various needs efficiently. |
| Economies of Scope | By combining different tasks together, it helps in saving money and deciding where to spend resources effectively. |
| Efficiency and sustainability tradeoff | Balancing how well things work with how long they last helps decide where money and materials should go. |
| Efficiency of Scale | By maximizing output with minimal input, it helps in managing and distributing funds effectively for various tasks and projects. |
| Efficient Mobile App Marketing Strategy | This strategy helps decide where to spend money effectively for promoting mobile apps. |
| Eight Simple Steps for New Product Development | This process helps plan and distribute money and materials effectively for creating new products. |
| Employee Empowerment | By giving employees authority, they can effectively manage and distribute funds for various needs within the organization. |
| Employer Branding | Creating a positive image for a company helps in managing and distributing funds effectively for various needs within the organization. |
| Familiarity Matrix | The matrix helps decide where to spend money effectively by showing what you know well and where you need more information. |
| Ferguson's Formula | Ferguson's Formula helps figure out how much money and where to spend it wisely. |
| Financial Modeling Software | Financial Modeling Software helps plan and distribute money effectively for different needs and activities. |
| Five Elements of Strategy | The framework helps decide where money goes and how to make sure it's used wisely for the plan. |
| Four Pillars of Long Term Value | By identifying key areas for growth and investment, it helps in deciding where to spend money wisely for long-term success. |
| Four Steps to a Conscious Business | The process helps plan and distribute money effectively for different needs within a business, ensuring resources are used wisely. |
| Future Back Thinking | By envisioning future needs first, this approach helps plan and distribute money and materials effectively for upcoming tasks and goals. |
| GAP Analysis | Identifying differences and needs to effectively manage money and assign resources where they are needed most. |
| GE-McKinsey Matrix | The GE-McKinsey Matrix helps decide where to invest money based on market attractiveness and business strength. |
| General Electric Matrix | The matrix helps decide where to spend money wisely based on factors like growth potential and competitive strength. |
| Global Talent Mobility Strategy | This strategy helps decide where money goes for moving people around the world for work. |
| Goals Grid | The system helps plan spending and assign resources effectively by organizing objectives and outlining where money and materials should go. |
| Green Management | Green Management efficiently organizes and distributes financial and material assets for effective planning and utilization in various projects and operations. |
| HP's Turnaround Strategy | HP's approach ensures money and materials are used wisely and effectively to help the company recover and grow. |
| Hambrick and Fredrickson's Strategy Diamond | This framework helps define and align key elements like goals, arenas, vehicles, differentiators, and staging to effectively manage financial assets. |
| Harvard Business School Services Model | The model helps plan and distribute money effectively for different needs in a business. |
| Hedgehog Concept | The process helps organizations make smart financial decisions by focusing on what they do best and investing resources wisely. |
| Heptalysis | Heptalysis organizes and distributes funds effectively for different tasks, ensuring money is used wisely and efficiently. |
| Hoshin Planning System | This system helps set clear goals and aligns efforts to ensure resources are used wisely and effectively for planned activities. |
| Human Resource Strategy Map | The HR strategy map helps plan where money goes for hiring and training employees effectively. |
| IIDC Strategic Tool | The IIDC Strategic Tool helps in planning and distributing money and materials effectively for different tasks and projects. |
| Industry Analysis | Understanding market trends helps determine where to invest money effectively. |
| Innovation Circle | This approach helps plan and distribute money and materials effectively for projects and tasks. |
| Innovation Pyramid | The structure helps organize and distribute money effectively for new ideas and projects. |
| Innovation Radar | The system helps in managing and distributing funds effectively for new ideas and projects. |
| Innovation prioritization | Helps decide what new ideas are most important, ensuring money and time go where they'll make the biggest impact. |
| Innovation vs. Reaction | This approach helps decide where money goes to make new things happen instead of just responding to what's already going on. |
| International Market Assessment Tools | This tool helps understand global markets to make smart decisions on where to invest money effectively. |
| Interrelationship Digraph | This technique helps identify key factors and prioritize where to invest resources effectively for financial planning and resource distribution. |
| Jacobides' Business Strategy for a Shifting Landscape | Jacobides' approach helps businesses effectively manage and distribute funds to support their goals in a changing environment. |
| Judo Strategy | Judo Strategy helps in planning and distributing money and materials effectively for different tasks and projects. |
| Just in Time Manufacturing | By producing goods only when needed, it minimizes excess inventory, allowing efficient use of funds for various needs. |
| Kaizen | Continuous improvement approach enhances financial planning and resource distribution for efficient operations and cost-effective decision-making. |
| Kano Model | The model helps prioritize features based on customer satisfaction, guiding resource allocation for maximum impact on meeting financial constraints. |
| Kay's Distinctive Capabilities Framework | This framework helps identify what a company is really good at and guides where to invest money effectively. |
| Kernel of Strategy | The 'Kernel of Strategy' helps decide where money and resources should go. |
| Kraljic Portfolio Purchasing Model | This model helps decide where to spend money wisely based on how important and risky different things are. |
| Lafley & Martin's 5-Step Strategy Model | This model helps decide where to spend money effectively and efficiently to reach business goals. |
| Leadership team | A group of top decision-makers who plan and distribute money and materials effectively to support company goals and growth. |
| Lean Canvas Model | The Lean Canvas Model helps plan where money and time should go for a project or business. |
| Lean Manufacturing Tool | Lean Manufacturing principles streamline spending for efficient resource distribution in a cost-effective manner. |
| Lean Startup Methodology | The Lean Startup approach helps in wisely managing and distributing funds for business growth and development. |
| Lewin's Change Management Model | By planning and organizing effectively, it ensures that the necessary funds and materials are distributed appropriately for the task at hand. |
| MacMillan Matrix | The system organizes spending plans effectively for different needs, ensuring resources are distributed appropriately for each task. |
| Market Entry Strategy Framework | This framework helps decide where and how to spend money when entering new markets. |
| Market dominance | Understanding which products are most popular helps decide where to invest money effectively. |
| Market share capture | By analyzing how much of the market a company has, it helps decide where to invest money effectively. |
| McKinsey's Seven Degrees of Freedom for Growth | This approach helps decide where to spend money effectively to make a business grow. |
| McKinsey's Ten Timeless Tests of Strategy | This framework helps decide where to spend money effectively to make sure the business grows and succeeds. |
| McKinsey's Three Horizons of Growth | McKinsey's framework helps plan for short-term gains, invest in mid-term projects, and explore long-term opportunities, guiding where to allocate funds effectively. |
| Miles and Snow's Organizational Strategies | This approach helps companies decide where to spend money effectively and efficiently. |
| Mintzberg's 5P's of Strategy | Mintzberg's framework helps decide where money and time should go for a plan to work effectively. |
| Mobile App Marketing Strategy | This strategy helps decide how much money to spend and where to spend it for promoting mobile apps effectively. |
| Mobile Food Vendor Component Analysis | This system helps food trucks plan spending effectively for ingredients, equipment, and other needs, ensuring they have enough resources to operate smoothly. |
| Mullins' Seven Domains Model | The model helps organize and distribute money effectively for different needs in a structured way. |
| NIST Cybersecurity Framework | The framework helps determine where to spend money effectively to keep information safe and prevent cyber attacks. |
| New Product Development Model | This model helps plan and distribute money and materials effectively for creating new products. |
| New Service Development Model | This model helps plan and distribute money effectively for creating and launching new services. |
| Ohmae's 3C Model | Analyzing company's capabilities, customers, and competitors helps decide where to invest money effectively. |
| Open Market Innovation | This approach helps in managing and distributing funds effectively for various projects and tasks. |
| Options Matrix Tool | The Options Matrix helps decide where to spend money effectively. |
| Organization Design Principles | This approach helps decide where money goes and how much is needed for different parts of the organization. |
| Osterwalder’s Business Model Environment | It helps plan where money goes to make sure everything needed gets enough funding. |
| Outsourcing Decision Matrix | The matrix helps decide where to spend money effectively. |
| PEST and PESTEL Analysis | Analyzing external factors helps in planning and distributing funds effectively for different needs and goals within an organization. |
| Pareto Analysis (The 80/20 Rule) | Identifying vital few factors helps prioritize where to focus resources for maximum impact in managing expenses effectively. |
| Partnership Evaluation Matrix | This matrix helps decide where to spend money effectively and efficiently for partnerships. |
| Penetration Pricing | By setting low prices initially, a company can effectively manage and distribute its funds to support various business activities and growth opportunities. |
| Pentagon and Triangle | This system effectively organizes and distributes funds for various needs, ensuring resources are allocated efficiently and within set financial limits. |
| Performance Prism | The system helps in planning and distributing money effectively for different tasks, ensuring resources are used wisely and efficiently. |
| Platform Canvas | Platform Canvas organizes spending plans and assigns resources effectively, ensuring funds are allocated efficiently for various tasks and projects. |
| Platform Ecosystem Strategy | Platform Ecosystem Strategy helps determine where money and time should go to make sure everything gets done efficiently and effectively. |
| Platformization Strategy | By organizing and optimizing systems, it ensures money and materials are used effectively for different tasks and projects. |
| Playscripting | Playscripting helps plan and distribute money and things needed for a project. |
| Porter's Diamond | Porter's Diamond framework helps decide where to invest money effectively for business growth. |
| Porter's Value Chain | Porter's Value Chain helps in organizing and distributing funds effectively for different parts of a business to run smoothly. |
| Practical Business Planning | Helps in organizing money and assigning it where needed for a business to run smoothly and effectively. |
| Privacy-by-Design Framework | The framework helps plan and distribute money effectively. |
| Product Diffusion Curve | The curve helps decide where to spend money wisely based on how many people are interested in a new product. |
| Product Life Cycle | Understanding the stages of a product from start to end helps in planning and distributing funds effectively for its development and success. |
| Product Market Expansion Grid | The grid helps decide where to spend money wisely to grow in new markets. |
| Product Opportunity Evaluation Matrix - Poem Matrix | The Poem Matrix helps decide where to spend money wisely for new products. |
| Product-Process Matrix | The matrix helps match products with the best way to make them, ensuring resources are used efficiently for cost planning. |
| Pyramid of Organisational Development | The structure helps in planning and distributing money and materials effectively for different parts of the organization. |
| Pyramid of Purpose | The structure helps organize goals and distribute money effectively. |
| Rapid growth | By increasing profits quickly, it helps decide where to spend money wisely. |
| Resilience Strategy Framework | This framework helps plan and distribute money effectively for different needs, ensuring resources are used wisely and efficiently. |
| Resource Audit | Analyzing and tracking available resources to effectively manage and distribute funds for various needs and projects. |
| Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM) | A chart showing who does what helps ensure money and resources are used wisely and fairly for different tasks. |
| Responsibility Matrices | Responsibility Matrices help identify who does what, ensuring money and people are used wisely and fairly for each task. |
| Rethinking Matrix Organization | This approach helps distribute money and materials effectively within a complex organizational structure. |
| Risk Management Framework | The process helps identify potential problems and decide where to spend money wisely. |
| SOAR Analysis | SOAR Analysis helps in planning and distributing money and materials effectively for different tasks and projects. |
| SPACE Matrix | The SPACE Matrix helps decide where to spend money effectively and efficiently. |
| SWOT Analysis | Identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats helps decide where to invest money and how much to spend on different areas. |
| Scaling Strategies | Scaling Strategies help determine how much money and where to spend it effectively for a project or business growth. |
| Simplex Process | The process helps organize and distribute money and materials effectively for different tasks and projects. |
| Six Step Profit Formula | This approach helps plan how much money and time to use for different tasks to make sure everything gets done efficiently. |
| Skimming Pricing | By setting higher initial prices, it helps in managing and distributing available funds effectively for various needs and expenses. |
| Smarter Startup | This system helps you plan and distribute money and materials effectively for your business to grow and succeed. |
| Social Media Campaigns | This tool helps plan spending for online promotions effectively, ensuring money is used wisely for advertising on platforms like Facebook and Instagram. |
| Social Return on Investment (SROI) | SROI helps organizations decide where to spend money wisely by measuring the impact of their investments on society. |
| Strategic Agility | By adapting quickly to changes, it effectively manages and distributes funds for various needs. |
| Strategic Alliances | By forming partnerships with other companies, you can effectively manage and distribute funds and materials for your project or business needs. |
| Strategic Consistency Triangle | The framework ensures that money and materials are used wisely and fairly for planned activities. |
| Strategic Horizons | This approach helps in planning and distributing money and materials effectively for different areas of a project or organization. |
| Strategic Resilience PlanningStrategic Scenario Planning | By envisioning different future situations, it helps decide where to spend money wisely. |
| Sustainability and Circular Economy Model | This model helps plan spending wisely for eco-friendly practices, ensuring resources are used efficiently and sustainably. |
| Sweet Spot | Sweet Spot helps manage money and assign tasks efficiently. |
| Systematic Analysis | By carefully examining and organizing data, it helps in planning and distributing money and materials effectively for different tasks. |
| Systematic Approach to Management | The structured process ensures efficient distribution of funds and materials for various tasks and projects. |
| TOWS Matrix | The TOWS Matrix helps in planning how to wisely spend money and distribute resources effectively for a particular purpose. |
| Tactical Business Planning | Tactical Business Planning helps decide where money and resources should go for the business to run smoothly and achieve its goals. |
| Technology Adoption Life Cycle | The process helps decide when to spend money on new tech based on how popular it is. |
| Technology Life Cycle | The process of tracking stages of technology helps in planning and distributing funds effectively for various projects and needs. |
| Technology Roadmap | A plan outlining costs and priorities helps decide where money and time should go for projects and tasks. |
| Theory of Constraints (TOC) | Identifying and focusing on critical bottlenecks helps efficiently manage and distribute available resources for optimal results in a given project or task. |
| Three Horizons of Growth | It helps in planning for future growth and deciding where to invest money wisely for different projects or areas. |
| Three Levels of Business Models | This framework helps businesses plan where to spend money effectively to grow and succeed. |
| Three Tiers of Non-Customers | Identifying untapped customer segments helps focus spending effectively. |
| Top-Down Strategy | By starting from the highest level and assigning money and materials accordingly, this approach effectively manages and distributes resources for various needs. |
| Total Quality Management (TQM) | Total Quality Management ensures efficient use of funds for different needs within an organization, helping to manage and distribute resources effectively. |
| Triple Bottom Line | By considering social, environmental, and financial impacts, this approach guides decision-making to wisely distribute funds for various needs. |
| Turnaround Management | By carefully planning and distributing funds, it helps ensure that money is used efficiently and effectively to support a project's needs. |
| Using the Greiner Curve | The Greiner Curve helps in managing money and deciding where to spend it effectively as a company grows and faces new challenges. |
| VMOST Analysis | By analyzing vision, mission, objectives, strategies, and tactics, it helps determine where and how to spend money effectively. |
| VRIO Analysis | Assessing internal strengths helps decide where to invest resources effectively for better business outcomes. |
| Value Chain Analysis | Value Chain Analysis helps identify where money is spent and where it's needed, aiding in smart resource distribution for effective business operations. |
| Value Curve Analysis | Value Curve Analysis helps in understanding where to invest money effectively for business growth and efficiency. |
| Value Net Model | The Value Net Model helps in organizing and distributing money and materials effectively for different parts of a project or business. |
| Value-Based Management | By focusing on maximizing profits and efficiency, it helps decide where to spend money wisely and distribute resources effectively. |
| Value-Based Pricing | By setting prices based on the perceived worth of a product or service, it helps in determining where to spend money effectively. |
| Wardley Maps | Wardley Maps help in planning where money and resources should go to make sure everything gets done efficiently and effectively. |
| X-Matrix | The X-Matrix helps organize and distribute money and materials effectively for different tasks and projects. |
| Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB) | Zero-Based Budgeting ensures every expense is justified from scratch, leading to efficient resource allocation based on current needs and priorities. |