From cutting-edge IT projects to vision, innovation and leadership, the 2008 Midmarket IT Leadership Award Winners have one thing in common: a deep understanding of how IT can drive business success, and the ability to drive the technological and organizational change to get it done. Read on for their stories.
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ability to transact business anywhere, anytime was the goal for Advancial Federal Credit Union CIO
Larry Burwell. An enhanced home banking system did the trick.
In 2007, Quincy Medical Center, once an award-winning hospital in Boston, was
floundering under the weight of mismanagement. The IT infrastructure was a mess. But then the fixer
arrived.
Joseph Edward's IT team has developed an application that lets diocese
parishes keep the flock close. VoIP and a Web portal strategy are also planned.
From an ROI sheet to complete insight into what happens at his company's
warehouses, Monster Cable CIO Oded Haner says it's all about planning and communication.
IT was regarded as a "black hole" at Hamilton Beach, says Jerry Hodge, senior
director of IS. New processes, PPM software from Innotas and a lot of hand holding turned IT into a
star.
Marquette CIO Kathy Lang built a virtual patrolling center that uses
sophisticated video surveillance and a Cisco wireless mesh to monitor student safety on and around
the university's urban campus.
David Mann, CIO at The Word & Brown Cos., and his staff wrote AgencyPro for
his customers. It is people who make software work, he says.
Don't fall in love with any one technology, and you'll always be employable
in IT, says this leadership award winner from a crafting supplies company.
CIO Ram Murthy took a mainframe migration project (which had failed once already) and
turned it into an award-winning infrastructure.
Find out how this leadership award winner's creativity and "good enough is
never enough" attitude has elevated his company's IT footprint.Methodology: CIO Decisions Media launched the third annual Midmarket IT Leadership Awards in December 2007 and promoted them by email to members of SearchCIO.com, SearchCIO-Midmarket.com and past and prospective attendees of the CIO Decisions Conference.
The nomination process began with a short, Web-based questionnaire filled out by a nominator and a longer questionnaire completed by the nominee. Each nominee was required to discuss how he or she enables innovation in IT, as well as his or her leadership style, technology vision for his or her company and current projects aligned with that vision. A panel of judges (see below) scored the entries using criteria including the effectiveness of the leader and his or her projects, the projects' value to the organization and the executive's success in meeting business goals. Additional information on the awards program is available at CIODecisionsConference.com.
2008 Judging Awards Committee
Chairman: Anne McCrory, Editorial Director, CIO Decisions Media
Judges:
| Linda Chan Senior Director, IT, Veeco Instruments Inc. 2007 IT Leadership Award Winner Alex Cullen |
Kate Evans-Correia Spencer Hamons |
This was first published in June 2008
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