This global benchmarking study from ESI international identifies the key challenges and successes experienced by project and programme management offices (PMO) and draws recommendations for the future. 

Despite the travails of the UK economy over the last year, most ICT businesses have continued to perform robustly, responding swiftly to any need to downsize their teams or evolving their business models in order to deal with a changing environment. 

Many IT project management initiatives often miss goals, exceed budgets and fail to deliver benefits. Read this paper to learn how optimizing project management can help organizations transition from managing IT projects to managing business outcomes. 

In the pursuit of improving IT project delivery, many companies tend to focus primarily on the process but might overlook a crucial step: benchmarking effectiveness. 

Demand Management (DM) is a component of a full-featured Project Portfolio Management (PPM) practice. Demand comes from many sources and all phases of the project lifecycle. Capacity management must consider all of these. 

Cloud-based IT project and portfolio management (PPM) software is gaining popularity, but with all the vendor hype and so many options, choosing the right one can be difficult. In this in-depth Gartner report, explore why so many organizations are turning to cloud-based PPM, and compare the strengths and weaknesses of popular software vendors. 

Read this paper to learn how Service Portfolio Management can be implemented to achieve and show evidence of improved business satisfaction, reduced waste, reduced cost, and enhanced service quality. IT can better select strategic investments and maximize business value. 

<p>Application portfolio management (APM) can help your organization in its quest to trim unwanted applications and modernize its portfolio. Read this paper now and learn about the need for an APM solution, including examples on how it can help your business optimize its IT investments.</p> 

This white paper provides new insights into the root causes of IT project failures and misalignment with business unit expectations, illustrates the path to optimized project and portfolio management from four different starting points, and provides step‑by‑step advice to help you reach new milestones quickly. 

Read this Forrester Consulting study to examine the total economic impact of application portfolio management (APM), a comprehensive, context-driven, strategic approach to ensuring that your IT investments support your current and future business plans. 

Once you realize how inextricable enterprise architecture (EA) and project portfolio management (PPM) are from each other, it becomes obvious that an approach that integrates the two under one umbrella can provide you with more efficient stratgic outcomes. View this webcast to learn how to marry these two complementary disciplines. 

This e-guide demonstrates how companies are reaping the benefits Project and Portfolio Management software and succeeding during the economic downturn.