Month: May 2005

Who We Surveyed

Three-fourths of the respondents to Baseline’s 2005 survey on project spending are technology executives, and the rest are their counterparts on the business side. Nearly

CEO & CIO: A Two-Way Technology Lens

A company’s chief executive and its head of technology have different roles but a common goal: innovations to help their business grow. Albertson’s CEO Larry

The Buddy System

David Astar, the chief operating officer of Uniprise, the unit of UnitedHealth Group responsible for most of the health-care giant’s information-technology operations, likes to have

Top 20 Projects

Project Average planned spending in 2005* Median planned spending in 2005* No. of companies % of respondents 1 Application Integration $12,130,000 $600,000 195 15.4% 2

Choice Hotels: Supplies and Demand

When Choice Hotels International began using the Web in 1999 to steer its hotel owners toward preferred vendors of hotel supplies, it almost immediately eliminated

Managing Projects

Most initiatives are judged by a basic standard: Do they save money? Using more sophisticated metrics, like internal rate of return, is less common—and 24%