We spoke with Shana Berger, Senior Director of Technology Business Management at Children's Health, to learn more about IT financial management within the healthcare space.

Check out the Q&A to uncover answers to the following questions:

• Are there any specific IT financial management challenges you find the healthcare space to encounter more than other industries?
• Tentatively, what are your key objectives/priorities for the next few years?
• How can we best communicate the value of IT in business and finance terms?
• What practical advice would you give to those looking to build trust on a foundation of cost transparency?

We took a look at how businesses are anticipated to spend their technology budgets in 2020, along with the latest IT trends and how these impact IT financial management. According to a recent report from Spiceworks on “The 2020 State of IT,” as the business technology market reaches roughly $4 trillion in annual spend, there will be increased opportunities for solution providers to grow their businesses and for technology buyers to innovate and upgrade their services, software, and infrastructure.

Download this infographic to uncover:

• Key Findings from the 2020 Report
• Top Factors Leading to IT Budget Increases in 2020
• Future Technology in the Workplace
• How These Trends Impact IT Financial Management
• And more!

According to a recent report from Spiceworks on "The 2019 State of IT," business revenue is on the rise and IT budgets are expected to grow or remain level in 2019. We created a breakdown of IT spending trends in 2019 and analyzed how these trends impact IT financial management.

In preparation for IT Financial Management 2020, we wanted to share these exclusive past presentations with you. Inside you will find expert content on:

• CASE STUDY: HOW MACHINE LEARNING AND AI WILL INCREASE YOUR ITFM VALUE: WHY NOW MORE THAN EVER? Josué Batista, Information Technology Strategy Manager, HM Health Solutions
• BUILDING HOMEGROWN SYSTEMS, USING EXISTING ERP SYSTEMS WHILE LEVERAGING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE TOOLS Paul Matthews, Director of Finance, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
• MOVING BEYOND COSTS AND INTO VALUE Steven Morley, Technology Business Manager, Intermountain Healthcare
• CASE STUDY: CONSERVE YOUR TIME; DITCH YOUR SPREADSHEET Ekiti Lowe, Director of Finance, Duke Health System
• CASE STUDY: LEARNING HOW TO SPEAK THE ITFM LANGUAGE WHILE CREATING A SOLID FRAMEWORK FOR STRATEGIC GOALS Olga Timofeyeva-Vogt, TBM Lead, Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.

Creating an ITFM/TBM Roadmap for Strategic Business Alignment 

Traveling the journey to a mature IT Finance or Business Management Office can sometimes be a rough ride.  You can save costly rework, time, and headaches by pro-actively assessing your data, systems, people, and processes in ways that help align them with your goals.

Building a good roadmap can help you navigate your way logically, as well as provide you with an avenue to measure success.  Staying on target with your alignment of the goals and visions of the organization overall will ensure continual production of ROI.

Download this whitepaper, courtesy of Thavron Solutions, to learn the important considerations for road mapping and aligning your data and systems for strategic program development, and for insights across typical ITFM projects.

We spoke with a few members of our 2019 speaking faculty to address the following questions:

• What are the most frequent challenges that arise between IT and finance departments?
• How can we best tackle these challenges?
• What advice would you offer to professionals looking to build a strategic partnership between their IT and finance departments?

What does it take to be a CFO of IT in the digital age? To find out, we partnered with our past speakers to develop the “DNA of CFOs of IT” to showcase the top 10 skills and capabilities current and aspiring CFOs need to possess in order to thrive in the digital age.