Who’s Next? CIO100 Awards Open For Entries

dx⁵ has officially opened applications for the 18^th edition of the CIO100 Awards, welcoming companies from across Africa to submit their IT projects for consideration.

The application period has been set until 31^st July, after which a shortlist of successful applicants will be released. The shortlisted candidates will battle it out for the awards which are set to be announced and given at the CIO100 Symposium and Awards at the Diamonds Leisure Beach and Golf Resort in Diani, Kwale.

The theme for this year’s awards is Innovation at Scale · Driving Business Growth Through IT Leadership.

The annual CIO100 Awards programme celebrates 100 organisations, and the people within them, using IT in innovative ways to deliver business value, whether by creating competitive advantage, optimizing business processes, enabling growth, improving relationships with customers, or digitally transforming the business.

Hosted by dx⁵, a CIO100 Award is an acknowledged mark of enterprise excellence in business technology, enhancing your organisation’s reputation as a leader in its sector. It generates positive PR and provides tangible, company wide recognition of the IT organisation’s hard work and accomplishments.

Applications that focus on the business goals and results of the project or use of technology have a better chance of winning. Applicants must provide data and examples that support their claims of innovation and show exactly how the business value was delivered.

Winning applications should include narrative examples or anecdotes that illustrate the results of the project, such as descriptions of how employees work differently, how customers interact with the company in new ways or the impact the project has had on the market. Nominations are now open. There is no nomination fee, and a potential awardee can nominate themselves, their organisation, a customer, or a partner. To be selected, applications must demonstrate measurable business value, not just IT benefits.

The previous edition of the awards saw applications from across the continent, with notable participation from East African countries Rwanda, Tanzania and, of course, Kenya; Nigeria, South Africa, Mauritius, and several other countries. The biggest award of the year, the CIO of the Year award, went to Deborah Mutungi, the Group IT Director at Sarova Hotels.

If you are looking to be the next winner at the 18^th CIO100 Awards, you can submit your project via this link.