Ventana Research Announces the Winners of the 15th Annual Digital Leadership Awards

    BEND, OR, November 02, 2022 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Ventana Research today announced the winners of the 15th Annual Digital Leadership Awards. The prestigious Awards recognize individuals and companies that have embraced the use of technology to help them lead their businesses and optimize readiness across their people, processes, information, and technology to grow their impact and industry potential.

As part of the judging process and methodology, Ventana Research examined case studies and submissions to evaluate the nominated organization, the individual's leadership and outcomes using technology, best practices utilized, and the associated business impact and value. Submissions received spanned industries and organizational sizes from across the globe.

"We would like to especially recognize the winners of the 15th Annual Ventana Research Digital Leadership Awards," said Mark Smith, CEO and Chief Research Officer at Ventana Research. "Our annual commitment is to acknowledge organizations and leaders that utilize their leadership skills and use of technology to establish the readiness to operate and perform across business processes for appropriate impact. Congratulations to the award winners and the supporting technology vendors for their dedication and commitment to reaching their full potential across their organization."

The Digital Leadership Awards span ten areas of expertise at Ventana Research, with one Overall Digital Leadership Award winner selected from the final judging across all categories.

The winners of the 15th Annual Ventana Research Digital Leadership Awards are: 

Overall - The Overall Digital Leadership Award recognizes the leadership among those submitted for consideration that most successfully maximizes the value of all the organization's assets – its people, processes, information, and technology. All finalists in the individual award categories were considered for this prestigious award.

- Helen Hunter at Sainsbury's using MicroStrategy

Analytics - This award recognizes the organization and technology that best exemplifies leadership in any use or application of analytics across business and/or IT. 

- Brendon Hill at BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) using ThoughtSpot 

Customer Experience - This award recognizes the organization and technology that best exemplifies leadership in applications and technologies that support engagement with customers for any purpose. 

- Chad Steighner at Clarios using PhaseZero 

Data - This award recognizes the organization and technology that best exemplifies leadership in big data and related technologies for supporting data and information management-related needs. 

- Nick Heigerick at Oldcastle Infrastructure using Fivetran 

Digital Business - This award recognizes the organization and technology that best exemplifies leadership in the technologies that support any or all of the following areas: Business Continuity, Digital Communications, Digital Security, Digital Transformation, Experience Management, Governance & Risk, Performance Management, and Sustainability Management. 

- Burzin Engineer at PhonePe Pvt Ltd using Aerospike 

Digital Technology - This award recognizes the organization and technology that best exemplifies leadership in the technologies that support any or all the following areas: Analytics & Data, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Blockchain, Cloud Computing, Collaborative & Conversational Computing, Extended Reality, Internet of Things, Mobile Computing, Robotic Automation. 

- Suresh Babu Jaganathan at Roche using Solace 

Human Capital Management - This award recognizes the organization and technology that best exemplifies leadership in the applications and technologies that support human capital management. 

- Sarah Smith at Wanzl using Ceridian 

Marketing - This award recognizes the organization and technology that best exemplifies leadership in the applications and technologies that support marketing. 

- Chris Bain at Avaya using Upland Software and Salesforce 

Office of Finance - This award recognizes the organization and technology that best exemplifies leadership in the applications and technologies that support the office of finance. 

- Paul Adams at Serco using Trintech 

Office of Revenue - This award recognizes the organization and technology that best exemplifies leadership in the application or technologies that support sales and the Office of Revenue. 

- Ralph Schatten at KPMG AG using Board 

Operations & Supply Chain - This award recognizes the organization and technology that best exemplifies leadership in the technologies that support the operations or service/supply chain. 

- Michael Prokopis at Steward Health Care using Alteryx 

Ventana Research annually highlights and acknowledges the importance of these leaders through the Digital Leadership Awards. To learn more about the Awards, please click here. 

About Ventana Research 

Ventana Research is the most authoritative and respected market research and technology advisory services firm. We provide insight and expert guidance on mainstream and disruptive technologies through a unique set of research-based offerings including benchmark research and technology evaluation assessments, education workshops, and our research and advisory services, Ventana On-Demand. Our unparalleled understanding of the role of technology in optimizing business processes and performance and our best practices guidance are rooted in our rigorous research-based benchmarking of people, processes, information, and technology across business and IT functions in every industry. This benchmark research, plus our market coverage and in-depth knowledge of hundreds of technology providers, means we can deliver education and expertise to our clients to increase the value they derive from technology investments while reducing time, cost, and risk. 

Ventana Research provides the most comprehensive analyst and market coverage in the industry; business and IT professionals worldwide are members of our community and benefit from Ventana Research's insights, as do highly regarded media and association partners around the globe. Our views and analyses are distributed daily through blogs and social media channels including Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. To learn how Ventana Research advances the maturity of organizations' use of information and technology through benchmark research, education, and advisory services, visit www.ventanaresearch.com. 

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