11/24/2006
Making IT Portfolio Management A Reality
Posted by Al Schultz
The CIO Executive Council shares strategies, tips and insights on making IT portfolio management a reality.
Story by: Sari Kalin
Among IT buzzwords, portfolio management is used so commonly that it hardly needs definition. This magazine has been writing about it since 1998. Analysts preach that managing technology investments as one would a financial portfolio is the surest way to maximize value, ensure alignment with the business and minimize risk. Consequently, software vendors are forever pushing products that promise holistic, color-coded views of the IT portfolio that they say will enable CIOs to prioritize projects; simplify and automate the processes for project approval, planning, resource allocation and project tracking; and standardize metrics for measuring ROI.
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