Despite economic challenges, this year's InformationWeek 500 companies had the vision and guts to keep trying new ideas.
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Defining The Business Value Of Technology
Our 2009 Ranking Of The Most Innovative Business Technology Organizations
No. 1 CME Group
The Market Leader
Parent of the Chicago Mercantile and other exchanges lives on technology as it drives into new markets.
No. 2 Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Medical Specialties Key To
Fetal Care Portal lets doctors and hospitals share important patient data.
No. 3 The Progressive Group of Insurance Cos.
"Name Your Price" Hits Home With Customers
Insurer uses Flash-based Web application to invert typical car insurance shopping process.
No. 4 Wells Fargo
Where IT Knows The Customer
ATM features such as envelope-free banking are typical of how it strives for a better user experience.
No. 5 Salesforce.com
SaaS Leader Practices What It Preaches
Move into the cloud has brought profound changes to IT organization.
How does a company rise to the top of the list? The CIOs of CME Group, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Progressive Insurance, Wells Fargo, and Salesforce.com tell how they did it.
The Global CIO 50
These leaders are making IT a vital component of business growth.
CIO Profiles
A look at some of the best and brightest IT executives, what they've accomplished and where they're headed.
See the regional breakout of this year's InformationWeek 500 winners, along with some regional data points.
Do You Have Boardroom Chops?
What's the business value of the technology you build or oversee? That's a key question being discussed at this year's InformationWeek 500, Rob Preston says.
InformationWeek 500 innovators reveal some of their top projects. Could something similar work at your company? Let the brainstorming begin.
- Eli Lilly Pulls Meds From The Cloud
- JCPenney Knows What's On The Truck
- Parsons Streams Desktops On Demand
- AG Interactive's Day To Innovate
- FedEx Componentizes Software Testing
- Harleysville Automates Risk Judgments
- Cigna Offers Hard Data For Care Choices
- Capital One's Single View Of Risk
- Wet Seal Lets People Design, Rate Outfits
- Baylor Health's Fresh Look At ROI
- JM Family's Auto Dealers Text, Twitter
- CenterPoint Goes National, Stays Close
- Voice Closes Deals For CUNA Mutual
- BayCare Health Uses Palm Vein ID
- Greening Of Colgate's Data Center
- Grange Insurance Speeds Up With F#
- PNC Targets Gen Y
- Entergy Customers Less In The Dark
- Coca-Cola Enterprises' Mobile Strategy
- T-Mobile's 3-D Customer Service
Cheaper, faster, better isn't just the rallying cry of the private sector. For these 10 government agencies, it's all about innovation.
- California Public Utilities Commission
- Washington, D.C.
- Defense Information Systems Agency
- Department Of Energy
- National Institutes Of Health
- California Department Of Child Support Services
- Federal Health Architecture
- Small Business Administration
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Hennepin County, Minn.
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