Project 10 to the 100 Polls Open for Voting

What projects, if implemented, will have the greatest impact on helping the most people? Google's project idea generation process has been organized into themes and voting its being used to prioritize the projects. Vote now through October 8. ...

... "Project 10^100, a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible. Your response was overwhelming. Thousands of people from more than 170 countries submitted more than 150,000 (or around 10^5.2) ideas, from general investment suggestions to specific implementation proposals. " ...

Via Google, Project 10 to the 100: Vote Here

Platinum Projects Stay Funded

Credit Suisse CIO Karl Landert was recently appointed to the company's executive board and reports to the CEO. He shares insights into steering the IT ship using flexibility and agility in staffing, while ensuring that the highest priority / value projects in the portfolio remain properly funded. ...

... "By and large projects that are on our radar screen as prioritized -- or platinum projects, as we name them -- have not been affected. We have gone through the same process we go through every year, which is that the demand and appetite for new things is much higher than we are prepared to fund ... " ...

Via Wall Street & Technology: Credit Suisse CIO

Strategy Execution

Executing on your IT vision requires making investment decisions and allocating your human and financial resources to the disciplined pursuit of your key strategies and enabling projects. ...

... "This requires clear decisions with priorities and clear IT resource allocation based on priorities—adjusted to relevant changes as they arise. " ...

Via CIO Insight: Executing IT Strategy

Project with Short Term Benefits

Advice on information technology is mixed, as we head into this economic storm. For some enterprises, shifting to short term payback may be necessary to emerge from trough of this economic cycle. However, the some companies will use this environment to implement transformations and shift their position in the marketplace. Whichever path you take, now is the time to revisit your project portfolio and pipeline and readjust priorities. ...

... "Hackett recommends that companies reevaluate any IT projects currently underway and consider eliminating those that are unlikely to generate short-term performance improvements ... " ...

Via Smart Pros: Strategies to Weather the Storm

Idea Greenhouse with Community Prioritization

Here's interesting model for incorporating customer input into product development and allowing the community to drive priorities. ...

... "Daptiv is now making the Greenhouse available to its entire customer base of more than 100,000 users. The beta allowed Daptiv to fine-tune the forum and gauge initial customer reactions, which have been overwhelmingly positive. As the rest of the Daptiv community contributes to the Greenhouse forum, Daptiv anticipates that time-to-innovation will decrease as product innovation is prioritized by customer need and features are expediently introduced through seasonal product updates. " ...

Via Daptiv: Customer Participation in Product Innovation

Take Business Risk During Downturn

Cisco leaders discuss their financial performance and the strategy going forward. They will align on key strategies, shift resources, and take on some business risk. The company uses governing councils to prioritize accordingly. ...

... "Aggressive in strategy. Prioritize and Execute. Fourth, we will also be bold in taking good business risk during this downturn to build on market transitions, opportunities, and put our many assets to use in existing and new markets as the recovery occurs. We will prioritize the top five objectives of both the company and each of our councils and boards. We will then align resources to these top objectives. " ...

Via Cisco: CEO John Chambers on 2009 Performance

Project Portfolio Management

High performing IT organizations cancel their fishing trips and put their gym sessions on-hold to ensure that the kids get home on time. Balance your priorities with project portfolio management. ...

... "PPM is something we do every day when we decide to go to work rather than fishing or pick up our children from daycare rather than heading to the gym first. " ...

Via Network Computing: Project Management