Case Study: Cardinal Innovations achieves improved project governance and portfolio transparency with Innotas

Cardinal Innovations Teams Up with Innotas for Project Management Success

Cardinal Innovations Healthcare is the largest specialty health plan in the U.S., covering about 2.4 million North Carolinians through a network of over 1,100 providers. Its enterprise PMO, created in 2013, faced difficulty managing high‑priority, cross‑functional projects because there was no central project inventory, resources were often double‑booked, and spreadsheet-based tracking made portfolio planning and reporting slow and error-prone.

Cardinal implemented Innotas’ cloud-based portfolio management platform using a phased “crawl, walk, run” approach, gaining dashboards, standardized governance and easier end-user adoption. The result was better alignment of projects with executive priorities, improved transparency and streamlined status reporting, more accurate resource allocation, and a centralized, data-driven process for prioritization and planning.

Cardinal Innovations

James Drescher

Director of Corporate Project Management