Digital Transformation Leader of the Year Award 2021

KTU, IEEE TEMS and Kaunas CCIC instituted the prestigious award of “Digital Transformation Leader of the Year” for excellence in initiating and deploying digital transformation project in any private company or public institution during the years of 2020/2021.

The winner will be awarded with an exclusive souvenir and an IEEE TEMS certificate and will be announced at the Industry Forum event scheduled during the conference 2021 IEEE ICTE Leading digital transformation in business and society on 27th of August, 2021.

Objectives

The Award seeks to highlight the incredible achievements of the individual, team or organization as a leader, that create a sense of inspiration through their role modelling to the wider community of engineers and managers in the industry. The objective of this award is to recognize leadership excellence with benefit to society in the field of digital transformation management and allied fields of technology management.

The aim of the award is to:

Encourage leaders to work towards the digital transformation of their organization as well as the science & technology community.

Recognise leaders as role models who demonstrate significant contributions.

Acknowledge the valuable contributions of the leaders through their hard work & passion put together work on cutting edge technologies.

Reward the valuable contributions of the leaders that help to drive a community ahead of them.

Promote sponsors and presenters as responsible corporate citizens helping to build communities in Lithuania.

Eligibility

| An individual, a team or an organization can apply for a nomination or can be nominated by others;

| The performance being cited for the award should have been performed in Lithuania.

| The specific contributions of the nominees have to be supported by evidence.

Evaluation based on but not limited to:

1. Be responsible for operationalizing the strategy for the company/clients’ agreed digital transformation.
2. Translate business/customer requirements into digital transformation requirements.
3. Establish scientific and technical goals of digital transformation working with technical experts, upper management and customers (internal or external).
4. Direct, analyze and approve digital transformation design and changes.
5. Develop trusted relationships with all engaged parts in digital transformation.
6. Assign, direct and evaluate technical work & Monitor performance of individual contributors and help manage their professional development.
7. Train and develop digital transformation competence, building teams with the right skills and competencies to meet current and future demands in order to deliver excellent results to customers
8. Lead the development of an effective environment that facilitates collaborative teams aligned with organizational behaviors and values.
9. Responsible for knowledge sharing and socializing best practices in high-performance digital transformation.
10. Be recognized as an expert in digital transformation internally with colleagues and clients.

Important Deadlines:

Nomination Due: 17/08/2021

Award Announcement: 27/08/2021

Nomination form