A sound IT budget is not a list of renewals with a contingency line at the bottom. It is a decision about which business risks to reduce, which systems to modernise and what the organisation can afford to keep running. For a finance director preparing the 2027 budget, the year-end review offers a useful opportunity to connect those choices. Start with strategic advice: establish what the business depends...
16 October 2026
Many UK SMEs judge their IT by two familiar measures: how many support tickets are open, and whether the internet is working. Both matter. Neither tells you whether the business knows who can access its systems, why they need access, or whether that access is removed when circumstances change. Joiners, movers and leavers (JML) make those questions visible. A new starter waiting days for a laptop is an...