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The SearchCIO 2013 Enterprise IT Leadership Awards: The Winners

April 2014Staff, SearchCIO

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Our SearchCIO 2013 IT Leadership Awards recognize the contributions and innovations of IT executives who have made strides in the areas of cultural innovation, technological advancement, business value, green IT, IT engagement and customer experience. Our finalists were announced in June.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of our 2013 SearchCIO-Enterprise IT Leadership Awards, whom we consider the very definition of leadership in large-scale IT operations. Click through the slides to learn more about each category winner, leading up to a brand-new feature spotlighting our Enterprise IT Leader of the Year. And check back regularly as we continue to feature our winners' projects on SearchCIO.

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Cultural Innovation Award: Leonard PetersCIO & Associate VP, Yale University

The Cultural Innovation Award recognizes a leader who has made a positive impact on the company and/or industry's culture. Our Cultural Innovation Award winner, Leonard Peters, CIO and associate vice president at Yale University, understood that reinventing the delivery of IT services wouldn't be easy. Peters turned to the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), a globally recognized collection of best practices for information technology (IT) service management, and mandated that all Information Technology Service (ITS)-Yale University employees take basic ITIL training. And the new culture of accountability didn't stop there: Peters' staff developed a tool for reporting performance that's so unique that they're filing a patent for it.

To learn more about Peters and his work, read our Q&A.

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Technological Advancement Award: Deanna WiseCIO & Executive VP, Dignity Health

The Technological Advancement Award recognizes a leader whose focus on emerging technologies has had a significant positive impact on the organization. Our Technological Advancement Award winner, Deanna Wise, CIO and executive vice president at Dignity Health, has guided her organization through a period of rapid change. Among her many accomplishments, Wise insourced email support, data security, storage management and field support and led a $2 billion electronic health record (EHR) software implementation. As a result, Dignity Health has achieved an industry-leading physician adoption rate of over 80% in the first eight hospitals to go live.

To learn more about Wise and her work, read our Q&A.

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Business Value Award: John BowdenCIO, Lifetime Products Inc.

The Business Value Award is given to a leader whose initiative promoted business goals and increased revenue. Our Business Value Award winner, John Bowden, CIO at Lifetime Products Inc., and his IT team deployed a new ERP solution worldwide, resulting in increased employee productivity, a low total cost of ownership and a 30% increase in order throughput for Walmart, to whom it supplies recreational consumer goods. Bowden also spearheaded a company-wide VDI deployment that cut IT infrastructure operating costs by 40% and increased security.

To learn more about Bowden and his work, read our Q&A.

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Green Information Technology Award: Carl VogelDirector of IT, Iowa Select Farms

The Green Information Technology Award is given to a leader whose initiative promoted ecological and sustainable IT. Our Green Information Technology Award winner, Carl Vogel, director of IT at Iowa Select Farms, set out to revolutionize the farming industry from his first week on the job in 2011. He developed a plan to give 600 member farms access to centralized data and resources, and updated the organization's disaster recovery infrastructure as well, reducing the likelihood of data loss in the event of a natural disaster or other unexpected challenges.

To learn more about Vogel and his work, read our Q&A.

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IT Engagement Award: Eric HawleyCIO, Utah State University

The IT Engagement Award is given to a leader who has encouraged optimal relationships between IT and a majority of the organization. Our IT Engagement Award winner Eric Hawley, CIO at Utah State University, found that centralizing IT services can be a tough sell in an academic environment, and sought to create a unified, consolidated IT space. By first concentrating on building an atmosphere of trust between IT and the various departments using IT services, Hawley engendered a culture of voluntary participation and alignment with IT.

To learn more about Hawley and his work, read our Q&A.

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Customer Experience Award: Jonathan ReichentalCIO, City of Palo Alto

The Customer Experience Award is given to a leader who has made strides in building customer relationships and enhancing the experience of the external customer. Our Customer Experience Award winner, Jonathan Reichental, CIO of the city of Palo Alto, Calif., pledged to undertake an open-government initiative when he took up the post in 2011. In a simple but effective move, he used Twitter to allow community members to ask questions of the mayor, city manager and other city leaders. He also headed up the launch of an open data platform, then championed the release of an open budget book that makes five years of city financial data available to everybody.

To learn more about Reichental and his work, read our Q&A.

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Enterprise IT Leader of the Year Award: Eric HawleyCIO, Utah State University

The Enterprise IT Leader of the Year Award is given to a leader whose efforts signified an achievement on many levels, including several other categories, and has made a substantial impact to a business or industry. Our Enterprise IT Leader of the Year Award winner, Eric Hawley, CIO at Utah State University, observed that his organization's IT departments were plagued with inefficiencies and siloed from one another, and decided that centralized IT was in order.

Hawley's good-natured approach to the CIO job? "I think the most important thing anyone in the CIO position can do is figure out if people hate your organization," he says with a laugh.

Want to know more? Read our brand-new feature on our 2013 Enterprise IT Leader of the Year Eric Hawley.

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