Orbis’
Bottom-Up Budgeting™

~~Motivating a Fiscal System~~

It’s an age-old belief about budgeting: either we increase revenues or we cut services. There is no other option.

But there is.

It’s another age-old (and very tired) statement: there’s too much waste in the budget to have confidence in “throwing more money at the problem”.

Age-old, and indeed tired too, but correct nonetheless.

The solution is efficiency—efficiency in the deployment of budgeted resources to solve the right problems.

But how?

By empowering the right people with the right roles in the budgeting process.

Why is it that government agencies, local governing bodies, school boards, and non-profits rely on appointed volunteers to make tactical budgeting decisions, and totally ignore the strategic budgeting consequences?

How is it that we expect the lay citizen to know the specific budgetary requirements of the travel and training line in the Treasurer’s Office? Who really knows that need? The Treasurer, of course!

Shouldn’t the budget process be benefited by smart appointees from the citizenry to shape the long-term strategic concerns of the budget?

Orbis Group utilizes a tried-and-true process called Bottom Up Budgeting™ that recognizes these truths, and provides additional benefits as well:

• Morale skyrockets as employees’ opinions become valued
• Employees drive budget savings to build their own contingency
• The public gains confidence that resources are deployed efficiently

Bottom Up Budgeting creates one more age-old saying: “why isn’t everyone doing this?”