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GEO Award


THE AWARD

NEW! GEO Award for Innovative Practices in Creating Value from Collaborative Relationships


IAOP’s GEO Award recognizes buy-side teams at customer organizations that are leading the effort to make their companies more successful through outsourcing and collaborative relationships. The award recognizes the leadership teams as pioneers and through their stories, which helps to advance the professional and industry.

The GEO Award for Innovative Practices in Creating Value from Collaborative Relationships recognizes a customer company’s team for using innovation to create value for the business through design and implementation of a collaborative relationship that (1) is responsible for measurable, strategic business outcomes such as growth, sustainability, competitive advantage, market insights, addressing new or unfulfilled needs; (2) represents true innovation, originality or creativity; and (3) is worthy of special attention from the industry due to the ability for others to learn from it, or for its repeatability. Applicants will be asked to clearly explain value created, the innovation, and how the collaboration enabled the value creation.

 The application process for the 2019 GEO Award is now closed. The winning team will be announced in January 2019.

PANEL OF JUDGES


ACADEMIC JUDGES

  • Kate Vitasek, University of Tennessee
  • Mary Lacity, Walton Professor of Information Systems and Director of the Blockchain Center of Excellence at the University of Arkansas
  • Beena George, Ph. D., Dean, Cameron School of Business, University of St. Thomas
  • Dr. Olayele A. Adelakun, Associate Professor of IS, DePaul University
  • Jeanne Kling, Research Associate/Certified Deal Architect, University of Tennessee



MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE JUDGES

  • Bill Hall, Partner, Pretium Partners and Chair of the Judges Panel
  • Mauricio Velasquez, COP-BD, Partner, Outsourcing Advisor
  • Bobby Varanasi, COP-GOV, CEO, Matryzel Consulting Inc
  • Darshan P. Kaur, COP, Senior Director - Global Sourcing, Equifax
  • Audrey Cushing, Director, Cigna
  • Girish S. Havildar, Analyst, Merck & Co
  • Israel Rodriguez, Vendor Relationship Mgr, Allianz Life Ins Co
  • Brad Bishop, Director of Customer and Enterprise Supply Chain, Duke Energy

 

 




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2018 AWARD WINNER

Team Name:  IT Strategic Sourcing & Vendor Management
Team Members:  Lawrence Kane, COP-GOV, Senior Leader, Strategic Sourcing Functional Excellence; Kelly Kujawa, IT Sourcing Strategy Lead; Nancy Sivitilli, IT Vendor Management Lead, IT Strategic Sourcing & Vendor Management; Beau Williams, Manager, IT Strategic Sourcing & Vendor Management; and Greg Hinkle, Storage & Backup Service Owner

 


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