This award recognizes high performing teams that have done an outstanding job of improving the success of their companies’ business. Teams will be selected for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. Relative performance will be used to adjust for company size. This is a serious award. Judging will be done by a panel of CIOs, Directors and Senior IT Executives.
The Awards presentation is one of the most highly attended technology leadership events each year. Join us at the Awards Dinner at the Metropolitan Club of Chicago on March 8th to recognize the Winners!
The Keynote Panel:
The Keynote for this year’s event will be a panel which consists of the leads of the 3 Award Winning Teams. The 3 representatives of the teams identified at the event will each share information about what their teams accomplished to win their award. The following panel discussion will be moderated by John Fisher and will cover topics such as leading business transformation and building and maintaining high performing teams.
AITP Member Cost: $75 Includes plated dinner, dessert and cash bar
Guest Cost: $90 Includes plated dinner, dessert and cash bar
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Agenda:
5:30 pm – 6:15 pm Social Hour
6:15 pm – 7:00 pm Dinner
7:00 pm – 7:20 pm Awards
7:20 pm – 8:15 pm Award Winner Panel and Q&A
8:15 pm – Adjourn
Eligibility:
- Nominees need not be a member of CompTIA AITP.
- Nominees can be a team consisting of direct reports to the CIO or any IT Team within an organization that has demonstrated high performance.
- Nominees can be via self-nominations or from nominations by Executive Leaders (sponsors). An AITP representative will follow up with the Executive Leader of a self-nominating team.
- The effort covered by their submission must be technology driven.
- The effort must have generated an “output or outcome”.
- At least part of the effort must have taken place in 2017.
- The organization must be with the greater Chicagoland area.
- The nomination must be approved by the Executive Leader (sponsor) of the Team.
Most Effective Team Award Criteria:
Nominated teams will be judged and awarded points on these effectiveness categories:
- Innovation and Team Collaboration (30)
- Organizational Change management (20)
- Business Value creation (40)
- Community service (10)
Click Here to Download the IT Team Award Detail Scoring Criteria
Click Here to Download the IT Team Award Brochure (pfd)
Timeline:
Nominations will close on January 5, 2018. Nominees will be sent Applications that need to be submitted by February 2, 2018. Judging will take place between February 5th and February 28th. Selections and notifications will take place on March 1st.
Questions may be sent to silvia.prickel@aitpchicago.com or paul.dittmann@aitpchicago.com .
Sponsors:
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2016 Most Effective IT Team Award (See Full Press Release)
SIM Chicago and AITP Chicago wish to congratulate the teams of Connect Hearing (pictured left above), Mesirow Financial (pictured center above) and the City of Chicago (pictured right above), winners of the 2016 CIO’s Most Effective IT Team Awards. All nominations, judging, and elections were done by peers in the information technology community. The awards were presented at the Awards Program dinner on November 17th, 2016.
The Chicago chapters of the Society for Information Management (SIM) and the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) are proud to announce the winners of the 2016 CIO’s Most Effective IT Team Awards. Thee year’s team winners are The City of Chicago – Large Company, Mesirow Financial – Mid Company, and Connect Hearing – Small Company.
The awards are designed to recognize the achievements of the teams as well as the significant role that teams play in the overall success of an organization and contributions to the IT community as a whole. Nominated teams were judged in award classes based on company size with points awarded in the following categories: cost effectiveness, innovation, change leadership, value creation, service quality, and community.
The awards evaluation process occurs over a 90-day period including a nomination, qualifying, and peer panel evaluation, culminating with an Awards Dinner at the Metropolitan Club of Chicago in November.