Call for Nominations: The 2013 MIT Sloan CIO Leadership Award

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. --(Business Wire)--

The MIT (News - Alert) Sloan CIO Symposium (www.mitcio.com) seeks nominations for this year's MIT Sloan CIO Leadership Award, which recognizes CIOs who lead their organizations to pursue innovative use of Information Technology to deliver business value. The 2013 Award recipients will be honored during a VIP dinner at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium on May 21, 2013.

Nominees must hold the title of CIO or Chief Medical Information Officer in for-profit corporations. Past award winners include:

Chris Perretta, EVP and CIO, State Street - 2012
Catherine Bruno, CIO, Eastern Maine Healthcare - 2012
Marco Orellana, CIO, Codelco - 2011
Thomas Nealon, EVP and CIO, JCPenney - 2010
Casey Coleman, CIO, US General Services Administration - 2010

Judging Criteria:

Key characteristics of CIO leadership include:

Strong Communicator - Articulates a vision for strategic business value from IT and works across the organization to build partnership around this vision. Focuses communications on value and innovation, not technology. Helps all IT staff to understand the business and speak the language of business leaders.
Proven Manager ("Ceap Information Officer") - Clearly demonstrates value-for-money in the management of core IT services - providing the right services at the right price and the right level of quality. Recognized among peers as an effective leader of the IT unit.
Value Driver ("Chief Improvement Officer") - Understands the business and needs of the CEO, CFO, Line-of-Business heads and other senior executives. Ensures clear focus on potential and realized value in all IT initiatives. Incorporates IT into business decision-making by participating in key strategic conversations, suggesting innovative uses of IT, and managing risk.
Trusted Partner ("CIO-Plus") - Exercises authority beyond IT itself. Considered a trusted member of the senior executive team, not just a technology leader. Suggests innovative uses of IT to transform the business - and successfully executes the changes. May receive additional non-IT responsibilities such as Chief Operating Officer or VP of Strategy, or strategic temporary roles such as Head of M&A integration.

These criteria are adapted from the award-winning book The Real Business of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value, which draws extensively upon research conducted at MIT Sloan.

Deadline:

The deadline for submissions is March 31st, 2013. The Online Application Form can be found at http://www.mitcio.com/award. Please contact award@mitcio.com with any questions about the application process.

About the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium

The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium is the premier global event for CIOs and senior IT executives to become better business leaders. In one day, CIOs and senior IT executives receive actionable information that enables them to meet the challenges of today's changing global economy. The annual event offers a day of interactive learning and thought-provoking discourse on the future of technology, best practices, and business that is not available anywhere else. The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium is organized and developed by a team from the MIT Sloan Alumni Club of Boston, the MIT Center for Digital Business and the Boston Chapter of the Society for Information Management. The 2013 Symposium will take place on Wednesday, May 22, 2013, from 7:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Eastern time at Kresge Auditorium on the MIT campus (77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA). Visit www.mitcio.com for more information and registration.