CITY OF HOUSTON RECOGNIZED BY CIO MAGAZINE AS ONE OF TOP 100 ORGANIZATIONS FOR OUTSTANDING BUSINESS ACHIEVEMENT CIO-100 Honorees Recognized at Awards Ceremony August 20th in Colorado Springs
CIO MAGAZINE - Framingham, MA - The August 15 issue of CIO Magazine honored the top 100 organizations that continually raise the bar of business achievement to improve efficiencies and create a competitive advantage. Now in its fifteenth year, the CIO-100 Awards Program annually recognizes 100 companies for achievement in a specific area of business. This year, the magazine honored those who have successfully integrated operational systems and processes across their organization. All of the 2002 CIO-100 honorees overcame internal politics, budget constraints and other hurdles to carry out integration projects crucial to the long-term success of their organization.
According to Lafe Low, CIO Features Editor and CIO-100 project leader, “Integration is a double-edged sword, a process that can make a business run much more efficiently but one that can also break the bank if not implemented strategically and wisely. The CIOs who envision how integration will improve a business, who can sell that vision to their colleagues and who can see the process through to the end are the ones positioned for success. It’s this foresight, proficiency and perseverance that we honor in this issue.”
In addition to providing 100 examples of integration success, the 2002 CIO-100 issue shares the three most important fundamentals to creating successful integration projects:
Get Buy-in from Management: Management—charged with sponsoring, funding and advocating integration to the organization—are key to success of the entire process.
Ensure the Integration Strategy Mirrors the Business Strategy: Make sure the integration initiative is driven by business value, not technology. Integration should directly support the overall goals of the business.
Get Everyone Involved: Bringing everyone in at the onset to communicate integration goals and hear out concerns will alleviate problems, hassles and setbacks down the road.
WINNERS CONVERGED IN COLORADO
The CIO-100 Awards were presented in Colorado Springs at CIO magazine’s fourth annual CIO-100 Symposium Awards Ceremony on August 18th at 7pm MT. The ceremony was attended by more than 300 of the world’s most influential chief information officers (CIOs), CEOs and senior business executives, and served as the cornerstone to a three-day executive conference.
