Selection, Criteria and Jury

1. Corporate organizations

• A list of 30 companies (5 per award category) -ranging from large to small organizations and spanning a variety of industries- is established upon deep research and insights gathered from members of the IT Executive Circle Network, Common, and Corporate IT Awards partners. The selection is based upon renowned inspiring IT projects and initiatives, and validated by the Jury. Those 30 nominated companies are the initial Honorees of the Corporate IT Awards. Each one must introduce a detailed dossier to the Jury for entering the final Award Winner Prize process.
• Any other organization may apply for joining this Honorees list by sending an application to the Jury. To be considered, entrants must justify clear, quantifiable and measurable achievements in selected categories.
• An organization may apply for different award categories. However, a specific dossier must be completed for each category chosen and highlighted by another case.
• From the final list of Nominees, and after careful analysis and benchmarking of all dossiers, one winner is defined for each category.

2. Solutions & technology providers

A list of 10 initial honorees is established upon a neutral and objective survey undertaken towards Belgium’s CIO and digital leaders community. Additionally, any technology vendor or service provider may apply and introduce a dossier to enter the process.

3. Criteria

The Jury examines, analyzes and compares the dossiers upon the following criteria:

• Overall quality of the dossier
• Well defined objectives and measurement methods
• Innovative use of technology
• Tangible achievements and measurable business benefits (qualitative and/or quantitative)
• Business context
• Sustainability of the project over time
• Inspirational case – waow effect

4. Jury

Jury members are selected upon drastic criteria. They must be either former CIOs, seasoned technology experts, or renowned business practitioners.

Ranga Deshpande
President of Common Europe. Former CIO at Bordet Hospital

Stéphanie Porteman
Director at KPMG. Former CIO at Touring and ICT Director at LCM/MC.

Ioan Gartner
Former Network Operations Manager, Worldline. Senior CIO advisor

Tine Vandenbreeden
Chief Operating Officer, SAP France

René Aebischer
Former Director Transversal IT, BNP Paribas Fortis. Senior IT Advisor

Valérie Taerwe
Innovation Lead, AE; Young ICT Lafy of the Year 2017

Thierry Janssen
Chief Executive Officer, Switch; former Managing Partner, JITM Group. Independent Board director

Jean-Pierre Bernaerts
Managing Partner, DPOffice. Former CIO, Indaver, G4S, Sofim

Edwin D’Hondt
Former SVP Information Systems, Umicore. Management Consultant & IT Advisor