“What do we invest in, maintain, or retire?”
Every record carries a portfolio status and a renewal date. Read together, the budget conversation stops being a negotiation of anecdotes and becomes a portfolio decision made in the open.
Systems marked retire that still consume budget, and invest systems whose upcoming renewal is the moment to expand.
A funded roadmap: what grows, what holds, what sunsets, and when.
A learning tool marked retire still draws a five-figure renewal next quarter. Set against a maintain-status SIS and an invest-status analytics platform, the sequence writes itself: let the first lapse, hold the second, grow the third.