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In-depth resources that cover service economics topics from end to end. Each guide is designed to be a complete reference you can return to.
The Complete Reference for Service Leaders
A comprehensive 10-part guide covering everything from financial management to operations excellence. The definitive resource for understanding and optimizing service economics.
From Margin Visibility to AI Cost Allocation
A comprehensive guide covering the foundation of service economics, the AI cost attribution challenge, blended delivery economics, and how to implement service economics intelligence in your organization.
The Complete Definition
The discipline of understanding what services actually cost to deliver. Learn the five dimensions, core questions, and why it matters in the AI era.
Where AI Costs Belong on the P&L
Is AI spend COGS or R&D? Learn how to classify AI costs correctly, understand gross margin impact, and build proper AI cost accounting for finance teams.
What's Different About AI Costs
Traditional FinOps breaks with AI. Learn why LLM costs behave differently from cloud costs and how to adapt your FinOps practice for the AI era.
Beyond the Billable Hour
AI does in 10 minutes what took 10 hours. Learn three pricing models for AI-augmented services and how to calculate your cost floor.
Choose the Right Approach
Compare headcount-based, usage-based, and project-based AI cost allocation methods. Includes pros/cons, decision framework, and implementation guidance.
The Complete Picture
Learn how to calculate and track the true cost of service delivery, including human labor, AI usage, and tool costs. The essential guide for service economics.
Track Engagement Margin Without the Spreadsheet Marathon
Learn how to calculate engagement-level P&L automatically, set up monthly margin check-ins, and move from reactive reporting to real-time visibility.
Present 3 Options to Leadership in Minutes
Why what-if scenario planning separates fast-moving service firms from the rest. Escape the one-option trap and model staffing, timeline, and financial trade-offs side by side.
Which Clients Are Actually Making You Money?
Find hidden losses, detect scope creep, track variance, and use the Whale Curve to see which clients generate profit and which destroy it.
9 Tools Compared Side by Side
Find the right tool to track margins, improve pricing, and understand which clients actually make you money. Side-by-side comparison matrix with decision framework.
The Strategic Layer Above ITSM
Strategic Service Management is the practice of managing IT and service organizations not just by responding to incidents—but by aligning delivery, performance, and financials with long-term goals. It...
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