InformationWeek Names the Global CIO 50

50 CIOs Around the Globe Recognized For Leadership, Innovation, and Business
Impact

SAN FRANCISCO, June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- InformationWeek, the leading multimedia
business technology brand, announced the top 50 Global CIOs redefining the
CIO's role in driving business growth.
(http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/interviews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217600529).
The CIOs were selected based on their strategic contributions to their
companies, as well as for their market leadership, innovative IT-enabled
business practices and results, and by their overall achievement and impact.
Based on a new study from InformationWeek Analytics, CIOs around the globe are
prioritizing on finding ways to reduce spending on maintenance and operations
in order to liberate precious IT dollars for new initiatives. InformationWeek
examined the role of CIOs in a global enterprise and how these Global CIOs are
contending with the downturn -- and the eventual upturn -- in terms of
business priorities and resource allocation. The study also challenged the
stubborn perception that IT in general and CIOs and their teams in particular
are cost centers rather than creators of value and accelerators of innovation.

"The CIOs named in the InformationWeek Global CIO 50 reflect three major
themes we found in our recent research study," said Global CIO senior vice
president Bob Evans. "CIOs are focusing on working to spend less money on
internal IT issues and more on external, customer-facing projects. They are
also developing and refining new ways to capture and communicate the business
value of IT and finally, they are shifting the internal outlooks of worldwide
IT organizations to reflect global perspectives."

The CIOs named to the prestigious list include: UPS CIO Dave Barnes whose
philosophy is to build technology from the start with the world in mind; LG
Electronics CIO Kim Tae Keuk who is leading an effort to replace more than 80
different ERP systems around the world with a single, global system;
Coca-Cola's Jean-Michael Ares who with his company, recognizing China as its
third-largest and perhaps fastest-growing global market, is opening a $90
million innovation and technology center in Shanghai.

The Global CIO 50 listing debuted in the May 25 issue of InformationWeek
Magazine and the comprehensive InformationWeek Analytics Global CIO Report,
titled "Small World, Big Opportunities" is available at InformationWeek
Analytics (http://informationweek.com/globalcio50/report). The results were
compiled from 861 responses from senior IT executives in seven countries
across 28 industries.
For more information on InformationWeek Global CIO 50, please go to:
www.informationweek.com/globalcio50.
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media, is an innovative business focused on serving the needs of technology
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across TechWeb brands.
Contact: Ellen Asuncion
Sr. Marketing Manager
InformationWeek Business Technology Network
949.223.3622
easuncion@techweb.com

SOURCE InformationWeek

Ellen Asuncion, Sr. Marketing Manager, InformationWeek Business Technology
Network, +1-949-223-3622, easuncion@techweb.com