CIO of the Year

CIO and Computerworld, with the support of NetApp, are once again searching for New Zealand’s leading CIO. If you think your organisation’s CIO has made a real difference over the past year, whether that be in leadership, delivering increased efficiency or driving transformation (or may be all three!) then you should nominate your CIO for the CIO of the Year award.

Understanding how the IT function is so often overlooked, we also accept nominations from the CIOs themselves.

 

CIO of the Year Winner

We are pleased to announce the name of winner for the CIO of the Year Award for 2009.

Julia Raue, CIO, Air New Zealand

 

Judges

Ian Rae, Chief Information Officer, Auckland City Council
Ian moved from a career in education to local government and technology in the mid-1980’s. Subsequently he has worked in roles covering many disciplines of information technology including operations, analysis and design, management and leadership. Ian was appointed to the role of CIO of Auckland City Council in November 1999 and in 2002 was named CIO of the Year in the Computerworld Excellence awards. Ian has been a judge in the awards since 2003.

Wendy Bussen, Global Procurement, Fonterra
Wendy has been a judge for the Computerworld Excellence Awards for over ten years. Her experience in the IT industry covers IT governance, IT strategy, policy development, project management and systems development. She was the Director of IT Services at AUT University for nine years, heading a team of 85 staff. After AUT, Wendy joined the Auckland Regional Council as General Manager Corporate Services. At the ARC, Wendy led a culture change programme, enhanced the functionality of the ERP system and relocated and implemented new technology into the ARC call centre. Wendy recently joined Fonterra in the Global Procurement Division and is reviewing the vendor landscape for the provision of IT services across 140 sites around the world.

Garry Collings, Director, @Large
Garry is an experienced CIO and a previous winner of the CIO of the Year Award in the Computerworld Excellence Awards. He has more than 18 years’ experience in IT management, infrastructure evaluations and upgrades, process re-engineering, software development, organisational change and mobile solutions. Garry is a former CIO of Toll NZ, TranzRail and Mainfreight.

 

Category Definition and Qualification:

The CIO of the Year category is open to individuals in an IT management position.

Entries have now closed.

The winner of this Award will be announced during the CIO Summit event on 21 July at the Hyatt Regency Auckland.

For assistance, please email Sue McIntosh, or call 09 926 9112

Category questions include;

1. How have you been effective in providing leadership of the IT contribution to the success of the business?
2. What has been your general strategy and how you have aligned the IT function with the strategic direction of the organisation?
3. How have you positioned the CIO role as strategic contributor?
4. How do you drive IT unit performance towards company goals?
5. Detail your outcome deliveries and the specific business results achieved?
6. How do theses results align with overall business goals?
7. What key metrics have you used to measure the outcomes? Please supply an overview of results against these metrics.
8. Give some examples of the innovation shown in your role
9. What is your strategy for IT people management and development?
10. Please detail any other key successes or contributions of note?
11. Please supply any other information you think may assist your submission.
12. Please supply details of two users whom our judges may contact as references:
13. Please list key technology suppliers:
14. Please list any supporting documentation that is available on request: