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"The 2012 CIO 100 Awards honor 100 companies that exemplify the strategic partnership of IT and business. How to Use This Chart Learn about the 2012 CIO 100 Award winners and their winning projects, and find the companies that interest you the most, with this interactive chart. Click on the tabs to sort the data according to location, industry or revenue as well as project type (the main technology used for the project), the primary business function it benefits and its impact. Click on the company name to get more details, including a description of the winning project and more about the technologies used."

This year, the Stratford Institute has prepared a  detailed evaluation of provincial and territorial  eGovernment initiatives (provision of online  services, online information and online citizen  engagement). The methodology was developed  in collaboration with Brainmaven Research from  other recent assessments internationally, tested  with a trial run last year and then reviewed and  modified with input from the provincial CIOs. The  intent is not to stress the relative ratings of the  jurisdictions but to identify and feature the best  practices emerging across our governments. This  is only a portrait of what our researchers saw at  one point in time this year. Websites constantly  evolve and some jurisdictions are embarking on  significant changes. Our intent is to encourage and  inspire advances, not so much amongst the CIOs,  who are well aware of the potential, but amongst  the departments and ministries which must adjust  their processes to accommodate escalating online  demand 

How digital is your business?  The quick answer is probably very much when you consider your web sites, Facebook pages, IT systems, email and the like as evidence of being digital.  Viewed from the perspective of digital transactions, most of us are digital experts.  We feel that we are digital.  But are we really being a digital business? The idea of 'being digital' has been around since Nicholas Negroponte's book of the same title back in 1996.  His thesis then, and the operative definition of digital to this day has been the use of technology to replace physical atoms with digital bits.  That notion has driven billions of dollars of investment as companies took analog business processes and turned them into digital information based services.    This creates digital transactions, digital operations, but does that constitute a digital business? We 'feel digital', according to a 2011 survey where more than 2,000 CIOs rated the level of digital technology applied to 12 major business processes.  On average, the CIOs rated 58% of their processes as dependent on digital technology, see the figure below.

"A recent set of studies published by McKinsey Quarterly provides further evidence that the bigger they are the harder they fall.  Given that the McKinsey Quarterly's audience is predominantly business executives rather than IT professionals, it's important that CIOs are aware of the findings and have a reasonable response. Large projects not only fail more often they deliver less.  According to the McKinsey/Oxford study half of IT projects with budgets of over $15 million dollars run 45% over budget, are 7% behind schedule and deliver 56% less functionality than predicted.  That means that:"

he government of the province of Quebec today released the Gautrin Report, which covers Web 2.0 and government transformation related to technology.  It includes ideas such as a provincial open data site and improved internal collaboration for government employees.  In the press conference I also heard mention of a dashboard for government IT projects (with reference to the dashboard created by the US CIO).

An informal group of CIOs from seven of the largest cities are launching their first project: a website that will house standardized data from each city, making it easier for them to share applications.

The UK Cabinet Office recently released Social Media Guidance for civil servants. The guidance goes far beyond the level and sophistication of material I've seen from many other jurisdictions, offering support and useful advice, not just rules and warnings. It also provides advice to CTOs and CIOs on how to oversome some of the technical barriers to accessing and using the internet and social media that still plague many agencies, stating that, Social media is likely to become as ubiquitous as email with many more, if not all, staff eventually needing to use it in some form as part of their work.

(New York, New York, 8 June 2012) - The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) today named Riverside, California, USA as the world's Intelligent Community of the Year 2012 during its annual awards ceremony at Steiner Film Studios in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Riverside, which has appeared among the Top Seven Intelligent Communities for two years in a row, was represented by a delegation led by Mayor Ron Loveridge, as well as the city's CIO Steve Reneker and Assistant City Manager Deanna Lorson. The co-founders of ICF - Louis A. Zacharilla, John G. Jung and Robert A. Bell - presented the award to Riverside, which succeeds Eindhoven, Netherlands, the 2011 recipient. 

"Communications regulators, drawing on recommendations from a recent mobile health task force report, look to launch initiatives that will facilitate broadband-enabled healthcare technologies, particularly for mobile apps."

Todd Park explains how he has partnered technology with open-data initiatives to tap into the many talented innovators and entrepreneurs across the government.