Special Award for Digital Innovation
This award recognizes that the modern enterprise must transform itself from a software consumer into a large-scale software innovator. A winning organization shows that a project or initiative can source, augment, develop and/or distribute software IP (intellectual property) that delivers differentiation, disrupts the market through external products or services, or has significant positive impact on internal operations.
WHAT IT TAKES
entrants must demonstrate strategic decision making as part of their project in at least two of these four areas:
- Planning. The nominated project is tied to and driven by business goals from the earliest ad-hoc stages.
- Sourcing. Rather than comprising solely top-to-bottom internally created resources, the nominated project relies also on external code, libraries, apps, algorithms, microservices, platforms, and so on.
- Development. The nominated project makes use of agile and secure, full-cycle DevOps practices and methodologies, allowing for rapid release and pivoting based on market intelligence and customer/user feedback.
- Distribution. The nominated project makes full use of third-party development delivery ecosystems (e.g., downloads or API access from the organization’s website would constitute distribution). Please note that distribution can also be internal only (i.e., first party distribution) where it is used in your own products/services and/or business processes.
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Over the last six years, IDC has received over 6,000 nominations – a glimpse of our digital-first world, where Future Enterprises are changing the face of digital transformation as we know it. Is your organization successfully navigating the digital-first world? Join IDC Future Enterprise Awards and find out.
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