Managing a growth culture: How Sun manages its project portfolio

Author: Davidson A.

Source: Strategy and Leadership, Volume 32, Number 1, 2004 , pp. 43-46(4)

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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Abstract:

Sun Microsystems is a high technology firm that depends upon innovation for survival. This interview of Sun's Chief Information Officer, Bill Howard, gives insight into how this fast moving company balances the need for new development of innovations against limited resources. His goal: do more with less, but always try to produce the right quality and with good usability. With an extended enterprise that can go anywhere in the world in a virtualized connected supply chain, the demands on IT are three times greater than the resources available to do them. The solution for making the hard choices: a multidimensional matrix and governance process to evaluate the projects.

Keywords: Innovation; Project Management; Project Planning

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10878570410511417

Publication date: 2004-01-01

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