This year's finalists in the Industrial category of the iTnews Benchmark Awards all successfully made the case for investing in technology despite operating in a fiscally-constrained market.

The well-documented downturn in Australia's manufacturing and resource sectors has meant the CIOs of Asciano, Norse Skog and Qantas had to battle to convince stakeholders not to sweat IT investments to avoid the costs of change.
Find out how Asciano CIO Kelvin McGrath and Norse Skog IT chief Sandeep Dharni pitched the case for transformation.