CIOL, Dataquest to honour Indian CIOs

BANGALORE, INDIA: India’s leading technology portal for the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) community, CIOL, in association with Dataquest, India’s most respected IT journal, has announced ‘Enterprise Awards 2010’ to recognize pioneering work by Indian chief information officers (CIOs) from medium and large enterprises in the BFSI, Manufacturing, Retail and Services space.

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Instituted in 2004, these awards, considered to be the Oscars for the CIOs, carry forward the CIOL vision to empower the ICT community as also to acknowledge their leadership qualities, pioneering and innovative efforts to bring benefits to their organizations by interplay of business and technology.

Announcing this, CIOL senior vice president R Anil Kumar said, “Today’s CIOs are business technologists who make the difference by enabling their organizations to adopt cutting-edge technologies, thus making them competitive in the market place. Enterprise Awards 2010 will honor nearly a dozen CIOs.”

The Top 3 CIOs from companies with turnover of both over and under Rs. 1000 crore will be awarded the Champion CIO, Gold CIO and Silver CIO honour. 

Apart from these, CIOs can nominate themselves for individual awards for demonstrating innovative spirit, showing commitment to Green IT, Delivery Execution and Project Excellence.

Leading consulting firm KPMG is the knowledge partner for 2010 awards, especially for the judging process, and will be represented by their director IT, Ashwin Vellody.

CIOL Enterprise Awards are the only awards dedicated to industry CIOs that focus on close alignment of technology with business.

The nominations will be judged by a 7-member jury headed by eminent bureaucrat with extensive hands on experience in deployment of IT in Government, M N Vidyashankar. He is the Principal Secretary, e-Governance Department of Government of Karnataka. Other members include K.B Singh, CIO, BSES Power Limited and G.S Ravi Kumar, CIO, GATI Limited — Champion CIOs award winners of 2009 — and Dr. Sandhya Shekhar, CEO, IIT-Madras Research Park.

From CyberMedia its chairman Pradeep Gupta and editor-in-chief Shyam Malhotra will be part of the jury.

The awards that reckon the excellence of CIOs in enabling their organizations become efficient and competitive are decided on the basis of the following framework: Leadership, Vision and Mission (including risk-taking ability), Strategic Deployment of IT, Internal and External Customer Orientation (understanding business needs), Business Benefits and Value, Innovative Use of Technology, Process Improvements, Eco-friendly Initiatives.

New Award Categories

While Enterprise Connect Awards 2008 saw a new category of Eco Smart CIO award, the awards this year have been changed and evolved further.

Thus, the individual awards are now changed to: Best Innovator Award, Best Delivery Execution Award, Best Operational Excellence Award.

The winners of 2009 also include: Sekar. S (The Karur Vysya Bank Limited), Pertisth Mankotia (Sheela Group), Sunil Kunders (Arvind Limited), Sumit Chowdhury (Reliance ADA Group), S.C. Mittal (IFFCO), R. Rajagopal (REPCO Bank), Nishi Vasudeva (Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited) and Ramasamy (Indian Oil Corporation Limited).

The awards will be presented on September 9, 2010 at Mumbai. The last date for nominations is August 1, 2010.

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