OsirisInc

Operations · Illustrative scenario

Moving $420K from vendor spend to evidence gaps

The budget grouped spend by vendor and cost centre, which made it impossible to test whether resources actually followed strategic priorities. Remapping it exposed the answer.

The problem

Budget was tracked by vendor and cost centre. That answered "who are we paying" but never "which strategic objective is this buying", so it was impossible to test whether spend followed the priorities leadership had just approved.

What we did

Mapped forecast and actuals to objectives, initiative type, evidence gap, geography and quarter, then split every line into committed versus flexible so the genuinely movable money was visible separately from the contractually fixed.

What changed

$420K moved from low-impact events and duplicated vendors into real-world evidence, content remediation and field capability. Forecast variance fell below 5%.

$420K

Reallocated

<5%

Forecast variance

5

Mapping dimensions

2

Duplicate vendors retired

WHERE THE $420K MOVED $260K Low-impact events $160K Duplicated vendors $210K Real-world evidence $130K Content remediation $80K Field capability $420K reallocated
Modelled figures from a synthetic dataset — not client results.

How it was measured

The $420K is flexible spend only — committed contractual spend was excluded from the movable pool. Forecast variance is measured quarter-end actual against quarter-start forecast.

Artifacts

Budget model · capacity view · initiative portfolio · investment memo