As new-age IT projects continue to proliferate, CIOs, CTOs, and their teams are embracing a variety of cutting-edge strategies to add intelligence to the ever-growing volume of data, build a culture of innovation, and accelerate their digital infrastructure road maps. The innovation train is moving fast. As such, organizations must ramp up their skill sets and address a variety of pressing challenges to ensure they are well positioned to take full advantage of technology models like AI and zero trust.

In the 2024 ‘Role and Influence of the Technology Decision Maker’ study, a majority of enterprise IT decision makers believe that the tech buying process is becoming increasingly complex. The major technology disruptions seen since 2023 have led many companies to pivot toward monetizing their biggest innovations. Today, the world’s best leaders are building distributed systems designed for growth and making cloud-native tech ready for any future – powered by the likes of AI and GenAI.

To compete and thrive in the new digital economy, progressive CIOs across the region are increasingly transforming their customer engagements, business operations, and operating models by leveraging digital technologies. They are rapidly adopting advanced technologies such as AI and leveraging cloud and cybersecurity to accelerate transformation. They are also supported by line-of-business leaders in delivering business transformation.

Through the IDC CIO Excellence Awards 2025, IDC intends to honor those organizations and IT leaders that have conceptualized and successfully delivered digital transformation initiatives that brought about tangible results.

At IDC, we pride ourselves on enforcing the very highest levels of transparency and impartiality. As such, each nomination will be reviewed and validated using a multi-tiered process.

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