Selection, Criteria and Jury
1. Corporate organizations
Nominees of the Corporate IT Awards are selected in 2 different ways:
- A list of 30 companies ranging from large to small organizations and spanning a variety of industries- is established upon insights gathered from members of the IT Executive Circle Network, Common, and Corporate IT Awards partners. Those 30 nominated companies are the initial Honorees of the Corporate IT Awards. Each one must introduce a dossier of 5 pages maximum to the Jury for entering the Awards 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 initiatives an achievements.
- An organization may apply with max. 2 projects and in different award categories. However, a specific dossier must be completed for each project or initiative.
- From the final list of Nominees, and after careful analysis and benchmarking of all dossiers, 5 winners will emerge.
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:
- Relevancy of the dossier
- Well defined objectives and priorities Innovative use of technology
- Tangible achievements (qualitative and/or quantitative)
- Business & company 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.
Marc Decorte
President, Beci. Founding Partner, Innowings. Former Global SVP Digital Transformation, Shell.
Ranga Deshpande
President of Common Europe. Former CIO at Bordet Hospital
Stéphanie Porteman
Former CIO at Touring and ICT Director at LCM/MC.
Ioan Gartner
Former Network Operations Manager, Worldline. Senior CIO advisor
Tine Vandenbreeden
Chief Executive Officer, MobileXspense, former COO at SAP France
Valérie Zapico
Managing Partner, Valkuren; former MD at Valuis
René Aebischer
Former Director Transversal IT, BNP Paribas Fortis. Senior IT Advisor
Valérie Taerwe
Innovation Lead, AE; Young ICT Lady 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