Came here to say this. I'm sure there are situations where this strategy may work, but where I've worked (which is primarily outside of line of business operati

Came here to say this. I'm sure there are situations where this strategy may work, but where I've worked (which is primarily outside of line of business operations) budgets can be inflexible in the short term and just as often trend downward as upward. And people move on. Just because you developed a business justification with my the person who owned a budget before me doesn't mean I'm going to identify that need as a business priority, particularly if my first interaction with understanding that piece of our operations is that it requires a ballooning cost allocation.