Zero-based budgeting builds the budget from zero each cycle, justifying every cost rather than incrementing last year's. This is the Zero-Based Budgeting from the Stratenity Library, a governed consulting deliverable that is already built for you. It gives your team the full working method for zero-based budgeting, and it walks through everything from decision units: carving the organisation into fundable blocks to category ownership and dual accountability. Every asset ships with a worked client example, a clear RACI, defined KPIs, and governance you can defend, so your team adapts it to a live client engagement instead of starting from a blank page.
What this asset covers
This is a preview of the full deliverable. Inside the Stratenity Library, this asset walks a consultant through the complete method, section by section, with a worked client example threaded throughout.
- Why Incremental Budgets Accrete Waste
- The Zero-Base Principle: Every Dollar Re-Earns Its Place
- Decision Units: Carving the Organisation into Fundable Blocks
- Decision Packages: The Unit of Justification
- The Spend Cube: Visibility Before Judgement
- Ranking and Funding to Strategy, Not to History
- Category Ownership and Dual Accountability
- The Governance Cadence: From Annual Event to Operating Rhythm
- Culture and the Austerity Trap
- Reinvestment: The Other Half of the Business Case
- Year Two and Beyond: Preventing Slash-and-Regrow
- Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
- The Deliverable: The Zero-Base Budget Book
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