Almost Winner:

"You may be right Myles, technology selection is like a box a chocolates."

Tim Collins
Antioch, Illinois

Other Great Entries:

"We started this approach after finding it almost always worked better than detailed analysis."

Molly Kramer

Mentor, OH

"I stuffed the bowl with many "Switch from technology investments to investing in employee compensation" entries - we'll see what happens."

Roger Jones
St. Louis

"Before, our success rate was less than 50%; it's improved since then."

James Gerhardt

"Since we never get the funding, we found the decision process doesn't really matter much."

Jeff Gilbert
Hallmark

"I seeded all of our preferred technologies with small stones, so dig deep."

Barry Brewer

"Do you think there's a rabbit in there?"

John Hill
St. Onge Company

"I saw him fill most of slips with 'Don't spend on anything'."

Jorge E. Barnett Lawton

"We assign project management for the selected initiative the same way."

Carole Weimer

"I submitted 'drones' about 12 times."

Kevin Harris

Compliance Networks

"We do it this way just to tick the analytic types off."

Simon Howard