Greetings from Gardner Resources,

This month we've continued to explore the ever-changing technology landscape in light of our ailing economy. To do this, we researched the marketplace and then spoke to a number of your colleagues to gather their opinions.

We came across two reoccurring themes in our research:

1. IT demand is forecasted to continue to grow in terms of allocated resources and its contribution to the business.
2. The worldwide economic situation has quashed the operational performance of countless organizations; fewer dollars for them, fewer dollars for you. 

These themes led us to the question: How are IT executives doing more with less? We presented this question to six IT executives in healthcare and financial services. From our research and interviews, we developed eight strategies your colleagues are employing to do more with less during the downturn.

Economic indicators have ushered in immediate and wholesale budgets cuts, universal retrenchments of non-essential purchases, hiring freezes, and - especially in the financial sector - substantial layoffs. There is an enormous and universal pressure to do more with less, forcing many to find low cost alternatives to "business as usual."

This article focuses on how prominent IT executives in the areas of healthcare and financial services are being affected by the ailing economy, and the strategies they are employing to do more with less during the downturn.

Read more to learn what you can do to tighten the belt and manage these challenges.

A high-profile healthcare organization needed to install an enterprise-wide project management solution. Although the company had an internal IT staff, the department was structured around separate teams that worked on different projects.

Each group had its own approach to evaluating and implementing project initiatives.

The organization lacked both the time and the ability to conceptualize what skills were necessary to establish a unified objective and execution plan, so they turned to Gardner Resources for help.

Read more to learn how Gardner united an organization under a sole project management process.