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Hamilton Beach wins CIO Decisions Midmarket IT Leadership Award with Innotas PPM

When Jerry Hodge took over IT at appliance maker Hamilton Beach Brands Inc., his priority was making sense of the IT agenda and setting an IT governance strategy starting with his people and processes.

Find out how Jerry made his IT department a success using PPM technology by viewing this podcast at SearchCIO.

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Closing the Governance Gap with Project Portfolio Management (PPM)

Trying to run an IT project without knowing your resources is like trying to buy a car without knowing how much money you've got. Unfortunately a lot of companies still try to do just that, but using the right project portfolio management (PPM) solution can help.

Find out how companies are solving their IT project resource challenges at CIO.com.

Can Project Portfolio Management Become Easy?

IT organizations need to adopt the kind of automated solutions to run their departments that they have implemented for the rest of the enterprise.

Five Ways PPM Helps Organizations Do More With Less

These days, many companies are finding that an effective way to evaluate the entire portfolio and control costs is to use a Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solution, which makes it easier to look at projects as an aggregate collection of expense buckets to determine where excess fat can be trimmed.

The Project Management Paradox: Achieving More by Doing Less

Many managers indicate that their organizations are very good at starting projects, but not so good at finishing them. This article takes a close look at "effort" vs. "results-oriented" cultures.

Cost Cutting Tips: It Takes Money to Save Money

This article offers an interesting drill-down on why CIOs should spend money during the downturn, and where.

Hosted Software Solutions can Offer Big Payback in Hard Economic Times

With talk of a recession swirling, the last thing businesses want to do is to invest in a large capital expenditure. Instead, they want to reign in financial costs and solve problems with a lower upfront risk. One strategy in lowering this risk is using hosted software solutions to gain greater cost control and flexibility.

Is IT Recession-Proof?

Thanks to lessons learned from the last downturn, IT is much more resistant to economic uncertainty than it once was. This article says SaaS is a big reason why.

Credit Crunch not Hitting IT Spending

More than half of IT companies (55 percent) surveyed by Gartner said their organizations will increase their IT spending on external service providers, such as outsourcers, in 2008, while only 10 percent will decrease it.

The Internet Revolution: Software as a Service

The argument in favor of SaaS goes something like this: if employees are accessing software applications over the internet from remote locations where they are managed and maintained by third-party specialists, then in-house IT teams are relieved of the time and cost burdens traditionally associated with keeping software up and running on their own premises - along with the infrastructure that underpins them.

Opinion: The Year of Being SaaSy?

Written by Joe Brown, RightNow Technologies
We love articles that spout on about why SaaS accelerates cost savings. With mounting concerns about the economy, C-level execs worrying about skilled IT staff shortages and budgets for capital expenditure tightening. Joe makes the case for why 2008 is going to be the year for software as a service (SaaS).