  Cost management solutions should help organizations understand what to spend money on and when they should do it. Pcubed's Byron Garbutt and Ian Radcliff have undertaken a study of available solutions and developed the following functionality guidelines that can help weight the relevancy and applicability of a given solution for your organization. Read article ›
Creating a complete financial profile of any project requires data from both project management and accounting systems. Pcubed's Michael Bolton has been involved in data integration projects for a long time in a number of industries and for a variety of clients. This article shares his guidance about designing - or enhancing - a solution to get the financial information required to effectively manage your projects, while keeping both project managers and accountants happy. Read article ›
 Project management teams suffer when they lack financial smarts. That's the judgment of Paul Sausville, who spent his career first at NCR and AT&T as a consultant for the banking and financial services industries and then at Microsoft as finance director for the Microsoft Office business. He currently serves on the board of Pcubed. In this interview, Sausville explains three approaches to revenue growth initiatives, shares the metric he most favors in determining the feasibility of a project, and lays out how to tie money to a project or program. Read article ›
 Given the smart application of the digital oilfield with its requisite streams of data, upstream oil companies still face the age-old challenge : determining just what projects to pursue. This is nothing new to the oil industry, of course. Upstream companies have some of the best asset managers in the world. They've spent careers learning how to invest their firms' money. But there's always room for improvement - and it's that edge that increasingly defines leadership positions. Pcubed advisor Calvin Cobb explains the new business case for allocating an oil company's resources optimally to select the best projects that meet its objectives. Read article ›
 For buyers, the cost savings and agility offered by elastic computing platforms and "pay as you go" software services are creating an exciting option for both small innovators and big company CIOs. But how are companies on the supplier side making the transformation to meet this opportunity and how can they ensure continuous improvement of their services? In this article, Pcubed's Richard Evans looks at how lessons from business transformation can help the computing industry reduce the risks of investing in a new operating model. Read article ›
Pcubed's Byron Garbutt has worked on a number of dashboard initiatives, and some of those efforts have been more effective than others. In this article he shares the lessons learned from a dashboard project in a large national organization that wasn't entirely effective. Even though the project posed multiple obstacles, it still managed to succeed in introducing a dashboard that has gained traction, provided a high-level view of projects in the IT organization, and saved time and money. Read article ›
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