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Project Portfolio Management Helps CIOs Remain Relevant

A message from Innotas President and CEO, Keith Carlson

CIOs have been getting a bad rap lately.  A recent InformationWeek article noted “CIOs are losing their clout” and “CIOs are becoming irrelevant.”   Fortunately, this doesn’t have to be the case.  Forward thinking CIOs, like Tom Freeman, CIO of The City of Roseville, CA, are using on-demand Project Portfolio Management software to select and champion IT projects that help their organizations achieve strategic business goals.  These are the CIOs who will remain relevant.

“We now have a technology governance process in place, along with Innotas’ on-demand PPM solution, which enable us to track progress and accountability. By streamlining the process, we’ve been able to reduce the number of technology projects that have minimal impact on the city’s overall growth, and we’re now focusing our resources on projects that are aligned with the city’s strategic objectives. Plus, because Innotas is easy to implement, they helped us get our IT governance process in place six months ahead of schedule.”
Tom Freeman, CIO, The City of Roseville



Becoming More Business Focused, Business Relevant

Gartner’s 2006 CIO Agenda says that a top priority for CIOs is growing IT's contribution by being more business focused and business relevant, which is just what The City of Roseville has done using Innotas. Project Portfolio Management helps CIOs do what’s necessary to stay relevant:

  • Have comprehensive control over IT resources, assets and projects
  • Work to make sure the activities IT undertakes support the business’ goals
  • Report on the business value of those activities

To get there, some CIOs have tried to impose complex, cumbersome, and costly top-down EPM solutions.  These traditional, installed PPM solutions simply don’t provide CIOs with much needed visibility into the entire IT project portfolio, and are often over-loaded with features that are never used.

There’s a new kind of PPM - on-demand PPM.

Innotas’ on-demand PPM solution is not only affordable, but it is also useful for both top-down and bottom-up management and reporting, making it easy for CIOs to demonstrate the business value of each IT project underway.  Additional benefits:

  • No long consultant engagements to get up and running
  • No infrastructure build-out required
  • New functionality every few weeks without any extra requirements or costs

Most importantly, Innotas’ PPM solution succeeds where other solutions fail; it allows CIOs to effectively select projects that align with their organization’s business goals, and quickly eliminate non-strategic projects. 

At Innotas, we believe that PPM has become a leadership imperative that will not only enable CIOs to stay relevant, but will help them drive their organizations forward.