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This year’s crop of CIO 100 winners demonstrate how IT can excel despite the multitude of challenges that face it and the businesses it supports. We live in tough times. No argument there. But in the midst of tighter
Featuring 100 winners, 20 Super Achievers
and 100 finalists of CIO 100 2012.
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budgets, more frequent business requests, projects that need to be turned around faster and with 3x the return on investment, some CIOs are still finding ways to carry their businesses to the next level. These CIOs prove everyday that IT can make a real difference despite the challenges they face and for that they are this year’s CIO 100. For the uninitiated, the CIO 100 Awards, a 24-year-old tradition of honoring exceptional work that began in the US, has now become the most coveted recognition among CIOs worldwide. In its seventh year in India, the award has evoked the same aspiration, going by the huge number of entries we received this year. Four hundred and ninety one organizations filled out the nomination form for the CIO100 Award as well as the seven special awards, totaling an amazing 672 projects. It goes unsaid that the competition was severe.
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