For 20 years, the InformationWeek 500 has tracked the technology practices of the nation's most innovative companies. This study offers a unique look at the business technology strategies, investments, and practices of some of America's best-known companies and is the most detailed source of industry-specific IT budget information around. Compare your company's initiatives with the businesses in the 21 industries examined in this study, across the full 500, or with companies in the ranked list of 250.
#1 Top Company
National Semiconductor
IT Is At The Heart Of National Semiconductor's Business
Innovation in service-oriented architecture and collaboration lands the electronics company at the top of the InformationWeek 500.
#2 Hilton
Hilton's Welcome Mat Starts On The Web
From faster online reservations to letting guests pick a specific room in advance to self-service kiosks in its lobbies, Hilton keeps customers coming back -- and paying more.
#3 Highmark
IT Team Delivers Financial And Ecological Green
Two initiatives -- one to provide better business data and one to cut electricity costs -- show how IT can deliver bottom-line business value.
#4 Fiserv
To Stay Vital, Fiserv Courts The Facebook Crowd
MyMoney is geared toward credit unions seeking to cater to younger, Internet-savvy customers who are unlikely to walk into a brick-and-mortar branch.
#5 Unum
Pleasing Customers Made Simpler At Unum, With SOA
Simply Unum will make it easier for Unum to introduce new benefits products and services.
Here's how six companies successfully used productivity, customer intimacy, wireless, supply chain, emerging technology, and security technologies to transform their businesses.
Productivity: Eli Lilly
Eli Lilly Initiative Helps R&D Make The Best Bets
Collaboration, automated data collection chores expedite delivery of new products.
Customer Intimacy: Flextronics
Flextronics' SOA Success A Hit For
Electronics manufacturer leverages service-oriented architecture into a higher level of customer service.
Wireless: Sempra
Feeling The Heat, Sempra Scrambles To
Amid last year's California wildfires, the utility company's IT team establishes communications for a dozen temporary command centers.
Information Security: Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Secure Authentication Is Key To Prescription Safety At Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Fingerprint readers and pass code generators save caregivers time while complying with state laws.
Supply Chain Innovation: PC Connection
PC Connection Invests In The Future
The tech reseller overhauls its fulfillment system using Web services and EDI.
Emerging Technology: Monsanto
Monsanto's Collaborative Growth Plan
By combining unified communications, IM, SharePoint, and blogs and wikis while protecting its IP, Monsanto is advancing teamwork.
20 Great Ideas For You To Steal
Go ahead and follow the lead of these innovative companies, which came up with ideas involving green tech, voice over IP, security, and more. Also, see what company principals have to say at our Great Ideas blog:
Glen Grosslight, senior VP
Wells Fargo Uses Market To Filter Out Innovative Ideas
Yuri Aguiar, senior partner
When Test Release Went Viral, Ogilvy Knew It Had A Hit With Web Transporter 1.0
Frank B. Modruson, CIO
Accenture Looks To Youth Culture To Work More Efficiently And Ubiquitously
Aaron Crossen, IT senior director, Cigna Pharmacy
Web Tools Help Cigna Tackle Ballooning Health Care Costs
Marc Nadeau, director, U.S. IT project management
Convergence Saves PricewaterhouseCoopers Money And Boosts Staff Mobility
Audrey Pantas, chief information risk officer
Xerox's Path To Managing Information Risk
How does a company rise to the top of the InformationWeek 500? In this gallery, the CIOs of National Semiconductor, Hilton Hotels, Highmark, Fiserv, and Unum tell how they did in their own words.
Innovation Leaders
Meet the InformationWeek 500 Innovation superstars. The CIOs of Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Eli Lilly, Flextronics, Monsanto, PC Connection, and Sempra Energy tackled complex IT challenges and completed them with distinction. Click through these slides and learn how they did it.
Extreme IT: Systems That Can Take
GM, U.S. Steel, the American Red Cross, and other members of the InformationWeek 500 put their IT systems to the test -- in factories, coal mines, laboratories, steel mills, construction sites, and even in the wake of natural disasters. See how IT gets the job done under tough conditions.
20 Years Of Innovative Ideas
Through the years, the companies on our list have delivered in two areas -- innovation and execution.
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