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September 09, 2026 | 22 min

What IT Spend Actually Does to a Growing Company's Operating Margin

A research report on the relationship between IT spend and operating margin in a growing company: why the macro IT-spending headline describes a market you are not buying in, why the authoritative percentage-of-revenue benchmark is paywalled, where IT cost actually lands in a P&L, what the under-investment and over-investment traps look like in practice, and a stage-by-stage framework for right-sizing IT spend.