IDC’s DX Awards categories and selection criteria are aligned to reflect today’s most critical business transformation areas. Each nomination is reviewed and validated using a multi-tiered process and assessed by IDC analysts and a panel of independent judges composed of industry thought leaders, veterans, and academia. Deadline for nominations is on July 31, 2020.
DX Awards
Digital Trailblazer
Acknowledges outstanding achievement among regional winners across all categories for excellence in the execution of their nominated project, experiences, data transformation, operations, and the workforce/workplace. This category is not open for nomination and all regional winners automatically qualify for this category.
Regional Winners
Digital Transformer
Delivers digitally-enabled products and services over a sustained period. Winners in this category are generally established companies leveraging digital and disruptive technologies like Big Data/Analytics, Cloud, Mobility, IoT, and AR/VR to transform or make a significant change to process, operating models (e.g. creating new revenue streams, or customer experience.)
Regional Winners
Digital Disruptor
Aggressively disruptive in the use of digital technologies like Big Data/Analytics, Cloud, Mobility, IoT, and AR/VR. They utilize ecosystem awareness for constant business innovation and are fast-moving targets for competition.
Regional Winners
DX Leader
Plays a determining role in setting the vision and responsible for the execution of the DX initiative. Sets strategy for continuous transition from old to new tech and experimental to operational in the context of digital transformation, empowering employees, and enabling innovations that have been integrated to the organization.
Regional Winners
Omni-Experience Innovator
Transforms operations based on a customer-centric model focused on attracting and growing customer loyalty and advocacy. Organizations in this category move from reach (awareness) to relevance (preference) to reciprocity (a two-way exchange) in their customer relationships.
Regional Winners
Talent Accelerator
Leverages digital interactions and collaboration, connections, relationships, and tools in the workplace. They focus on optimizing the productivity and flexibility of internal and external employees to better perform their roles in the company’s overall digital agenda.
Regional Winners
Information Visionary
Promotes a strong focus on extracting and developing the value and utility of information relative to customers, markets, transactions, services, products, physical assets, and business experiences. Data and information are critical assets, leveraged to improve decision making, collaboration, competitive advantage, and data monetization.
Regional Winners
Operating Model Master
Possesses an exemplified ability to make business operations more responsive and effective by leveraging digitally connected products/services, assets, people, and trading partners. These organizations are generally focused on developing new products and services by integrating the business’ external digital connections to its markets and suppliers with internal digital processes.
Regional Winners
DX CEO
Recognizes the CEO who has developed a comprehensive strategy to create a digitally transformed enterprise. This CEO’s vision follows an agenda aligned with the emerging digital economy, responding to new customer requirements, capabilities, critical infrastructure, and industry ecosystems.
DX Gamechanger
Honors organizations which have made breakthroughs in digital transformation to allow their business to compete in the digital era. These organizations have leapfrogged other enterprises, which have already started their DX journeys, and are fast-growing competitors.
Special Award for Resiliency
Distinguishes organizations that have shown ability to adapt and respond to changing circumstances especially during the pandemic, while maintaining the organization’s central purpose, especially for its workforce, customers, and other stakeholders
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