|
|
2006 InformationWeek 500 Video |
 |
|
|
|
|
|
Top Company:
Principal Financial Group
 Topping the 2006 InformationWeek 500 list is Principal Financial Group in Des Moines, Iowa. A leader in the business of managing retirement benefits for more than 100,000 small companies, Principal also does a healthy business in mutual funds and life insurance. We were most impressed with The Principal's launch last year of its "Worksite" products, which let employees at small companies--even those who aren't investment savvy--package up retirement funds, college funds, and insurance, in a simple sit-down session with a company sales rep. Principal's IT systems help connect workers to the Internet from factory floors and other Web-unfriendly environments, and they shuttle information about workers' goals back to the company's data. CIO Gary Scholten talks about operational excellence, important emerging technologies, and navigating the roads in India in this podcast interview.
Read more about Principal Financial Group
|
|
|
2006 InformationWeek 500 |
 |
|
|
|
Number 2 Company:
Automatic Data Processing
 Automatic Data Processing, better known as ADP, is the nation's leading provider of payroll and other employee services. What impressed us most about ADP is how it's automating the process to develop, test, and deploy IT-based commercial products using Web services. The results? A sharp reduction in the time and cost to implement new software. But if the company needs to trim time and costs even more, Bob Bongiorno, CIO of ADP Employer Services, could probably do so with his super powerful tree cutter, his favorite gadget -- well, his second favorite gadget now that football season has begun. Now he favors his HDTV.
To learn more about ADP's innovative technology practices, why this NY sports fan doesn't have an iPod, check out our video interview.
Read more about ADP
|
|
|
|
Number 3 Company:
American Power Conversion
 APC is best known for keeping datacenters powered and cooled, and for preventing consumer products, like home PCs and plasma TVs, from frying during brownouts and thunderstorms. We like the company's strategy for deploying and fine-tuning its business technologies to improve customer satisfaction. Watch our video interview with new CIO Brian Belliveau to learn more about APC's mission to gain a 360-degree view of the customer, what he thinks of IT as a career choice (he's from the business side), and how playing hockey has helped him on the job. He loves the sport, but golf is his real love!
Read more about APC
|
|
Number 4 Company:
Global Crossing
 Global Crossing is a worldwide telecommunications carrier that's coming out of a massive multi-year restructuring. We were most impressed with the company's commitment to operational agility, including: extensive use of presence-enabled collaboration tools to accelerate communication, creation of automated workflow and service delivery platforms to give the company and customers more insight into purchases. Click on the video interview to find out what CIO Dan Wagner says about IT's role in restructuring the business, what he considers the biggest tech dud, and why he loves and hates his favorite gadget. If a movie were made about his IT team, he'd want Bruce Willis to play the role of the CIO. Good fit, huh?
Read more about Global Crossing
|
|
|
|
Number 5 Company:
International Truck and Engine
 International Truck & Engine produces vehicles that range from large trucks that carry NASCAR vehicles to school buses. We saw in International's IT team an innovative strategy to use a services oriented architecture to squeeze more value out of legacy IT systems, while giving the company a more real-time warning of any problems in factory production. It also has put emerging technology to work in its trucks, creating a product called International Aware that combines vehicle electronics, GPS, and cellular telematics to send data about where a truck is and how it's performing back to the fleet owner. Says VP of IT Art Data: "I don't think we know all the doors we're going to open with this." Find out more about the company's IT plans, Data's penchant for fast cars, and why he'd want a former Secretary of State to play him in a movie.
Read more about International Truck and Engine
|
|
InformationWeek 500 Former Top Companies |
 |
|
|
2005 InformationWeek 500 Winner:
Capital One
Podcast:
Gregor Bailar
of Capital One
Photo by David Deal
|
2004 InformationWeek 500 Winner:
E.&J. Gallo Winery
Video:
Kent Kushar
of E.&J. Gallo Winery
Photo by Jeffery Newbury
Watch The Video
|
2002 InformationWeek 500 Winner:
HIP Health Plan
Podcast:
Pedro Villalba
of HIP Health Plan
Photo by Sacha Lecca
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
