Mykolas Rambus had been on the job as the chief information officer for Forbes Media for just a few weeks before his tasks threatened to overwhelm him. Dozens of initiatives that encompassed everything from content publishing to advertising campaigns sat in disparate opaque folders, each with their own budgets, allocations and timelines. Rambus needed a better way to manage the project load, but enterprise project portfolio management software can run upwards of half a million dollars and take six months to install. Rambus had 35 IT experts on staff, but their hands were far too full to take on integration of a major software system. That would require several new fulltime staff and …
Feb. 15-16-2012 | Chicago
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