Annual award winners highlight best-in-class leaders across business and IT.
BEND, OR, October 17, 2023 /24-7PressRelease/ — Ventana Research today announced the winners of the 16th Annual Digital Leadership Awards. The prestigious Awards recognize individuals and companies that have embraced the use of technology to help them lead their businesses and optimize readiness across their people, processes, information, and technology to grow their impact and industry potential.
As part of the judging process and methodology, Ventana Research examined case studies and submissions to evaluate the nominated organization, the individual’s leadership and outcomes using technology, best practices utilized, and the associated business impact and value. Submissions received spanned industries and organizational sizes from across the globe.
“We would like to especially recognize the winners of the 16th Annual Ventana Research Digital Leadership Awards,” said Mark Smith, CEO and Chief Research Officer at Ventana Research. “Our annual commitment is to acknowledge organizations and leaders that utilize their leadership skills and use of technology to establish the readiness to operate and perform across business processes for appropriate impact. Congratulations to the award winners and the supporting technology vendors for their dedication and commitment to reaching their full potential across their organization.”
The winners of the 16th Annual Ventana Research Digital Leadership Awards are:
Overall - The Overall Digital Leadership Award recognizes the leadership among those submitted for consideration that most successfully maximizes the value of all the organization’s assets – its people, processes, information, and technology. All finalists in the individual award categories were considered for this prestigious award.
– Mark Luquire at EY using EY Fabric and Microsoft
Analytics Category – This award recognizes the organization and technology that best exemplifies leadership in any use or application of analytics across business and/or IT.
– Jared Noynaert at Crane Worldwide Logistics using Fivetran
Customer Experience Category – This award recognizes the organization and technology that best exemplifies leadership in applications and technologies that support engagement with customers for any purpose.
– Cyndi Daman at MoneyGram International using NICE
Data Category – This award recognizes the organization and technology that best exemplifies leadership in data and related technologies that support data and information management-related needs.
– Paul Coleman at Skidmore College using SnapLogic
Digital Business Category – This award recognizes the organization and technology that best exemplifies leadership in the technologies that support any or all of the following areas: Business Continuity, Digital Communications, Digital Security, Digital Transformation, Experience Management, Governance and Risk, Performance Management, and Sustainability Management.
– Max Chan at Avnet using HCL Software
Digital Technology Category – This award recognizes the organization and technology that best exemplifies leadership in the technologies that support any or all of the following areas: Analytics and Data, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Blockchain, Cloud Computing, Collaborative and Conversational Computing, Extended Reality, Internet of Things, Mobile Computing, Robotic Automation.
– David Hardister at Bank of America using Alteryx
Human Capital Management Category – This award recognizes the organization and technology that best exemplifies leadership in the applications and technologies that support human capital management.
– Houston Chatham-Wright at Expedia Group using ServiceNow
Office of Finance Category – This award recognizes the organization and technology that best exemplifies leadership in the applications and technologies that support the Office of Finance.
– Melanie Hermann at Polaris using OneStream
Office of Revenue Category – This award recognizes the organization and technology that best exemplifies leadership in the application or technologies that support sales and the Office of Revenue.
– Mike Little at Lumen using Anaplan
Operations & Supply Chain – This award recognizes the organization and technology that best exemplifies leadership in the technologies that support the operations or service/supply chain.
– Mario Cavallo at Granarolo using Board International
Ventana Research annually highlights and acknowledges the importance of these leaders through the Digital Leadership Awards. To learn more about the Awards, please click here.
Ventana Research is the most authoritative and respected market research and advisory services firm. We provide insight and expert guidance on mainstream and disruptive technologies through a unique set of research-based offerings including benchmark research and technology evaluation assessments, education workshops, and our research and advisory services, Ventana On-Demand. Our unparalleled understanding of the role of technology in optimizing business processes and performance and our best practices guidance are rooted in our rigorous research-based benchmarking of people, processes, information, and technology across business and IT functions in every industry. This benchmark research plus our market coverage and in-depth knowledge of hundreds of technology providers means we can deliver education and expertise to our clients to increase the value they derive from technology investments while reducing time, cost, and risk.
Ventana Research provides the most comprehensive analyst and research coverage in the industry; business and IT professionals worldwide are members of our community and benefit from Ventana Research’s insights, as do highly regarded media and association partners around the globe. Our views and analyses are distributed daily through blogs and social media channels including Facebook, LinkedIn, and X. To learn how Ventana Research advances the maturity of an organization’s use of information and technology through benchmark research, education, and advisory services, visit www.ventanaresearch.com.
—
For the original version of this press release, please visit 24-7PressRelease.com here
