Project of The Year 2024

About competition

The international annual contest, Project of the Year, was established by the professional IT community Global CIO. Its mission is to discover, consolidate, and promote the best IT practices implemented by CIOs in different countries

The Project of the Year contest provides a great opportunity for CIOs to share their experiences and gain recognition from colleagues worldwide.

The unique aspect of the contest is its project evaluation methodology, which was developed by the Global CIO experts. It includes both online voting by professional community members and a comprehensive assessment of the project's scope and significance. With no jury involved and a balanced evaluation process, the selection of winners remains as objective as possible. Comments from professional community members are especially valuable, as they provide a more objective analysis of the project details.

Participation is free. The projects can be submitted by either the IT manager on the customer's side or the IT supplier. Participants are allowed to submit multiple projects; however, each project may only be entered in a single nomination.

The organizing committee reserves the right to make minor text amendments to project descriptions, as well as to adjust the number of final nominations after the closure of submissions to ensure reasonable competition.

The organizing committee has the right not to accept comments on projects that are not relevant to the essence of the project or are duplicated. Such comments will be deleted at the end of voting with automatic adjustment of the rating.

The organizing committee has the right not to accept underestimated votes (one or two points) for projects if the comments with their explanation are not sufficiently substantiated. A check of such ratings is carried out after the end of voting, with the corresponding removal of underestimated points that were given unreasonably.

The purpose of Project of the Year is to find and share the best practices used by IT directors around the world, and to create a knowledge base that will help CIO find new effective approaches to solving their professional tasks.

CONTACT THE ORGANIZERS: project@globalcio.com

Competition rules

The project for the competition may be nominated by:

CIO or other leaders of digital transformation in company.
IT service providers can also participate in the competition if the project is confirmed by the customer. For example: In case of implementation of A solution in company BBB, you should enter email IT-manager in BBB and we will sent him (or her) a letter with asking to approve the project. Otherwise, the application shall not be accepted.
Software products and solutions that are not implemented by a customer are not allowed to participate in the competition.
You can submit multiple projects for various nominations; however, one project is to be only submitted to one nomination.

Criteria for selecting projects for the competition:

a project or a part of a project must have specific goals and objectives;
the stated goals of a project or a part of a larger project must be achieved between October 1^st, 2023 and November 1^st, 2024 (the project duration is not limited to this period);
a project must have a specific implementation outcome. Projects that have not been implemented at the customer organization shall not be admitted to the competition (e.g., non-implemented software products).
the editorial committee of the competition may move projects from one category to another before the end of the voting to better present the topics of the projects.

Competition deadlines

Application submission: September 16^th – October 31^st, 2024

Project verification: November 1^st – 10^th, 2024

Voting: November 11^th, 2024 – January 8^th, 2025

Competition results announcement and awarding the winners (preliminarily): January 23^rd, 2025.
Due to numerous requests, we will hold the Award Ceremony online, with the winners connected and broadcast on LinkedIn.

Project Evaluation Criteria

1. The scope of the project.

2. Project importance for the company.

3. Project complexity. It is estimated by the IT community. Each voter awards 0-5 points.

4. The optimization of solving project’s tasks. It is estimated by the IT community. Each voter awards 0-5 points.

5. Additional points:

for comments on projects. Each thematic comment of the project (the comment should be 200+ characters) adds 0.2 points to the project. Comments from IT professionals only are taken into consideration (comments from IT services providers and IT journalists are not considered). Project author's responses to comments (200+ characters) also add 0.2 points to the project for each comment.
for contribution in CIO Compass as active community member. If the CIO or IT vendor representative submitting the project has a CIO Compass subscription, the project receives an additional 1 point.
for members of Top 100 IT Leaders. Projects submitted by Top 100 IT Leaders ranking held by the Global CIO community receives an additional 0,5 point.

Voting methodology

The voting framework was developed by the Global CIO professional community expert council and is based on the methodology, can be found here.

FAQ

Can a project participate in the competition, if it has not been implemented yet?

No, it can’t.

Will a project submitted by an IT service provider be admitted to the competition without written approval (per e-mail) of the CIO on the part of the customer?

No, it won’t.

Can I make changes to the project submitted for the competition?

All changes to the project must be sent to the moderator of the competition committee. They will be considered after additional verification.

Can a project participate in the competition, if its specifications cannot be disclosed?

No, it can’t

Why is there no definite number of categories?

The final number of categories will be revealed after all projects are submitted to the competition. One category should include at least three projects, so if this number is smaller for any category, it will be removed. The projects from this category will be transferred to other categories. At the same time, if there are too many projects in the category, it may be broken into two separate categories.

Who is the Professional who can vote for projects?

You are a Professional if you are a CIO/IT responsible at the organization which is not an IT service provider. Your registration on the Global CIO Portal is confirmed through a valid corporate email.

What can Professionals vote for?

Project complexity – by giving -0-5 points.
Project optimization - by giving 0-5 points.
Comment of a Professional* (200+ characters).
Projects’ authors responses to comments (200+ characters).