The TBM Community is full of smart and creative folks and so I want to pick your brains!  #notazombie

Do you have pics you've created to explain TBM to a non-TBM person?  Looking for something in one or two pages.

I've seen the Happy Meal (attached) and the Spaghetti Bolognaise versions, but looking for something specific to the actual model.

Here's some I've created in the past...

This one is kinda close...  It's really cool, but not sure I could use it with our model - way more puts/takes.  (I didn't create this one, just supplied info.)

Maybe I need to revisit this one I drew a long time ago and just update it with the new model (different company) - since it shows the data sources and the towers/sub-towers... ?

But still looking for a new and different way to explain things.  Something that showcases the fact that we use IT data to stand the whole thing up (well, the guts in between the cost source and apps/services).  Something that would really resonate with a CIO type. 

I swear I remember seeing some pics like that on here a while back, but cannot find them to save my life.

If you have a pic like that, would you mind sharing?  THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

Hi Jenny – I’m attaching a page from a deck that we use to explain what the TBM model is and the value it provides.  We’ve found from experience to try to keep it simple for non-TBM people.

(we borrowed some icons from Apptio materials to create this, so it’s only fair I provide it back to you   ).

But seriously, hope it helps!

@Carol St. Claire YOU ROCK - thank you so much!!  Yes, this definitely helps!!!

Awesome!  I'm so glad I could finally help you with something, after all the help you've provided to me over the years!

@Carol St. Claire, this is awesome.

@Jenny Franklin, you rock as always.

@Jenny Franklin, any idea which tool was used to built the TBM Map? I really liked the idea. it is very good for a quick reference.Would love to build one for myself.

First off, you're entirely too kind  So the first two that I posted were PowerPoint, the second was done in Visio, and the third was done on a grease board.  I may try redrawing the grease board version using Flowchart Maker & Online Diagram Software (it's free!).

Haven't gone through the entire post in full detail, but I definitely like the one-pager views you've posted here, @Jenny Franklin !

I've had to create a one-pager summary slide for the model specific to our organization, but it's more of a sankey diagram view (i.e. flow of ideas = left to right). The idea is to prime users for viewing the Visual R12 Model Reports.

The one published in the Technology Business Management book (seen below) is definitely very useful, and I always include a version of that in my slides as a reference. Similar to the 3rd diagram in your post, I added a color code scheme for the different layers of the model:

• Finance Layer = Green

• IT Layer = Orange

• Business Layer = Blue/Purple

This color scheme pervades through our different reports and slicers to convey which part of the model the data is coming from.

Thank you, @Kyle Castro!

@Kyle Castro I remember this from the early days.  I recall one manager referring to them as 'cake layers'

All these great pics remind me of the stages you go through when you try to explain the obvious to someone else!

No 4 is my absolute favourite! Great work!!!

Here one of my intents which worked out quite well. Not directly spaghetti-type but somewhat in that direction...  

@Bettina Dase - this looks great - another unique view!  Thank you so much!!

See if this helps. Got it this from an Apptio resource – Jason Lam, who got it from another resource.

Thanks

Dhivya Shyam

@Dhivya Shyam Cool beans!  Very nice!  Thank you so much!

@Jenny Franklin - welcome

You can thank - Jason @Jason Lam

Thank you both!!

@Jenny Franklin We used many in the pas and still do, including the Services described using Spaghetti Bolognaise version.  Our latest has taken on a simpler form, one recognisable by budget holders which is working well.

This is excellent, @Sasha Dunford - thank you!!

I have been using the following for years:

• It allows me to explain the flow of money from the bottom to the top, towards the Business Units.
• It classifies the cost drivers in a way that a TBM layman can easily understand.
• Gives an overview of the data sources.
• It has enough detail in the diagram for me to explain the various paths (labor, hardware, software, Cloud, etc.), without getting bogged down with the IT infrastructure more than absolutely necessary.

Very nice, @Guillermo Cuadrado! 

So many brilliant and creative folks on Community - y'all are awesome!!

May be late to the party but we have a few versions that we use in customer training based on their level of experience

We use a relatable example such as a food delivery service - this is the Level 1 view

For those that are more aware of cost allocations (Level 2) we provide the below view - second to that we show the data sources in the same format:

For our more experience users based on direct/in-direct costs (Level 3) we provide the below:

Very neat set of diagrams you have here, @Julie Batty - very soothing for my slight OCD and soul hehe

Evidenced again by the presentation yesterday, I spend way too many hours aligning boxes although I can't take credit for all of these as very much a team effort

Very nice!!  Thank you so much, @Julie Batty!  And you have a kindred OCD spirit over here, @Kyle Castro

Hi Jenny, I can't share anything specific, but I have resorted (a few times) to what's recently been called the "spaghetti diagram". It's a simplified view of the Cost Model, from Cost Source to Business Units, which runs left to right on the page (rather than the Apptio bottom to top model view) ... so that I can fit more in.

Colour coding of the Cost Model is one things that I try to establish as a standard in any organisation I work with. I usually start (for no particular reason) with

• Cost Source and Cost Pools (fairly pure Finance layer) - Orange
• IT Resource Towers - Red
• Inventory to Applications - Blue
• Services - Green
• Business Users - Grey

The one view of TBM which I'm hoping to one day find the graphical skill to draw is of the TBMO at the centre of a spiders web, with silk strands into Finance, Technology Infrastructure, App Dev, Enterprise Architecture, Business Process Management, Project Management, etc. That's an idea which has legs :-)

Can't seem to figure out how to attach a file.  Darn.....  Love the feedback on this one though everyone!

Answer the who, what, when, where and why...  I use the below 3 slides for the allocation bit!

This seems to be the issue that most users are confused about so I spell it out...

Thank you @Michelle McGuire!!