The Strategic Value of Portfolio and Program Management

Regardless of its size, one of the keys components of strategic investment management in any organization is portfolio and program management (PPM). PPM provides enterprise-wide focus on defining, gathering, categorizing, analyzing, and monitoring information on corporate assets and activity as they relate to technology implementation and management. PPM offers top managers a centralized and balanced…

How to Manage Technology Investments Strategically

Corporate leaders commit enormous sums to technology investment and often, despite reams of “business cases”, on a hope and a prayer that this money will actually buy solutions to their problems. Investments in information technology are particularly mysterious, because it is so new and constantly changing. Nevertheless, it now accounts for half of all capital…

Use PPM to Manage IT Investment Risk

I wouldn’t be alone in telling you that investment in IT is still a good bet in 2009. Many are even saying that technology will play a strong role in the economic recovery. In my opinion, this could very well be the case. Research data collected by EMA as recently as October, 2008 shows no…