Cut
Remove duplicate, dormant, or unauthorized spend with no approved business job.
Shadow spend
Visibility is not the same as governance.
Personal-card purchases, team subscriptions, and unsanctioned AI can create cost, security, and continuity risk. The answer is not automatically to shut down useful work.
Primary decision: Cut / Standardize / Keep / Replace.
This is one signal inside the broader Savings Map. Evidence, capability, economics, and risk determine the final action.
This is one signal inside the broader Savings Map. Evidence, capability, economics, and risk determine the final action.
Standardize
Move useful work into an approved capability when economics, security, and user need support it.
Keep with governance
Some teams need a distinct tool. Assign an owner, policy, budget, and review path.
Replace
Use the replacement gate when a different way of delivering the job is being considered.
Keep the framework connected
One problem can have more than one responsible answer.
Do not treat a category label as an automatic cancellation order. Confirm the owner, use, contract, business job, risk, and net economics.