Meet the winners of TechTarget's CIO Leadership Awards, recognizing the contributions and innovations of IT executives who have made strides in various areas of engagement and experience.

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The SearchCIO 2013
Enterprise IT Leadership
Awards: The Winners
April 2014
Staff, 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. 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.

3. Cultural Innovation Award: Leonard Peters
CIO & Associate VP, Yale University
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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.

4. Technological Advancement Award: Deanna Wise
CIO & Executive VP, Dignity Health
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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.

5. Business Value Award: John Bowden
CIO, Lifetime Products Inc.
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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.

6. Green Information Technology Award: Carl Vogel
Director of IT, Iowa Select Farms
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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.

7. IT Engagement Award: Eric Hawley
CIO, Utah State University
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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.

8. Customer Experience Award: Jonathan Reichental
CIO, City of Palo Alto
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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.

9. Enterprise IT Leader of the Year Award: Eric Hawley
CIO, Utah State University
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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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