IDC Opens Nominations for the 4th Digital Transformation Awards (DXa) for Asia/ Pacific with 2 New Categories

IDC Opens Nominations for the 4th Digital Transformation Awards (DXa) for Asia/
Pacific with 2 New Categories

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           SINGAPORE, March 03 , 2020 – In the last three years, IDC
           has been tracking the emergence of digital transformation
           (DX) initiatives of enterprises and startups in the Asia/Pacific
           region through its Digital Transformation Awards (DXa)
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           program. On its 4 year, IDC is looking for digital initiatives by
           leading-edge Asia/Pacific organizations that excel in Future of
           Work, Customer Engagement, Intelligence, Operations, and
           Leadership. In the advent of the digital economy, IDC DXa
           welcomes this year’s emerging DX gamechangers together
           with DX trailblazers as the new champions of the digital
           arena.

           The 2020 IDC DXa categories will focus on the CEO’s new
           agenda on meeting new customer requirements, developing
           new capabilities, ensuring new critical infrastructure, and
           participating in new industry ecosystems. IDC is introducing
           two new categories in response to these new CEO priorities,
           namely the DX CEO and DX Gamechanger categories.

           DX CEO recognizes the CEO who has developed a
           comprehensive strategy to create a digitally transformed
           enterprise. This CEO’s vision follows an agenda aligned
           with the emerging digital economy, responding to new
           customer requirements, capabilities, critical infrastructure,
           and industry ecosystems. Unlike the DX Leader category,
           which recognizes an individual who has successfully led
           a specific DX initiative to support an organization’s overall
           DX strategy, the DX CEO category focuses on the role of
           the CEO as storyteller who stresses the need for a digital
           enterprise as part of the organization’s overall brand and
           strategy.

           Meanwhile, the DX Gamechanger category recognizes
           organizations that have leapfrogged competitors on their

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DX journeys. These organizations
have developed an overarching
strategy that has allowed
them to lead their respective
markets, keeping in mind
the emergence of the digital
economy's new customer
requirements, capabilities, critical
infrastructure, and industry
ecosystems. Compared to the
Digital Transformer category,
DX Gamechanger is open to
established organizations that
have leapfrogged competitors
through the execution of its new
DX strategy but have yet to display
sustained mastery of digital
transformation pillars.

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Figure 1: IDC DX Awards 2020
categories.

"Since we launched the IDC DX
Awards, we have seen how digital
transformation has evolved in the
Asia/Pacific – last year, receiving
over 1,100 nominations is proof
that DX takes precedence in the
overall strategy of organizations
in the region. We have now
reached a critical tipping point

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where organizations must shift
their agendas and harness the full
potential of digital technologies
to define their role in the digital
economy on the horizon. Based on
IDC’s latest CEO Priorities Survey
2020, the biggest challenges
in digitally transforming their
enterprises are implementing
new technologies, creating a new
business model, and changing
culture. In this arena where only
the digitally transformed can truly
win, IDC Asia/Pacific once more
calls for nominations in the DX
Awards program. Now on our
fourth year, we seek the region's
contenders and determine the
champions of the digital arena in
2020," says Sandra Ng, Group
Vice President for ICT Practice,
IDC Asia/Pacific.

Nominate your project now by
visiting www.idcdxawards.com.
Deadline for submission of entries
is 30 June 2020.

Nominations are open to tech
buyer companies or organizations
in both private and public
sectors. Nominations made
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by 3 parties must include
relevant contact details of the
nominated organization so that the
assessment can be completed.
Visit the site HERE for more
information on the nomination
criteria.

IDC’s DX Awards follows a two-
phased approach to determine
country and regional winners.

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Each nomination is evaluated
by a team of local and regional
IDC analysts against a standard
assessment framework based on
IDC’s DX taxonomy. All country
winners will qualify for the regional
competition to be decided by a
panel of judges comprising IDC
analysts, industry practitioners,
thought leaders, and academia
around the globe.

Winners from all around Asia/
Pacific will join the Singapore
winners at the IDC DX Summit
and Awards Gala Night, where the
regional winners will be announced
for the categories of Digital
Trailblazer of the Year (given
at regional level only), Digital
Transformer of the Year, Digital
Disruptor of the Year, DX Leader,
Operating Model Master, Talent
Accelerator, Information Visionary,
Operating Model Master, DX CEO,
and DX Gamechanger. All regional
winners will get a three-month
complimentary subscription to
IDC’s IT Executive Program.

Last year, IDC DXa attracted a
record-high 1170 nominations,
a two-fold jump from 2018 and
a five-time increase since it first
started in 2017. A total of 12
countries participated in IDC’s DX
Awards program (Australia, China,
Hong Kong, India, Indonesia,
Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand,
Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan,
and Thailand). IDC’s 201 9
DXa winners include SATS,
AirAsia, Coda Payments, GOJEK

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Indonesia, Kyobo Life Insurance
Co. Ltd, P&G Asia/Pacific Middle
East & Africa, Shinhan Bank,
Zuellig Pharma, L&T Hydrocarbon
Engineering Ltd, Citi, Hong Kong
Disneyland, China Construction
Bank, Domino’s Pizza, and Prof.
Dr. Suchatvee Suwansawat
of King Mongkut’s Institute of
Technology Ladkrabang.

The IDC DX Awards will happen
at the fourth IDC DX Summit
2020, one of the ICT industry’s
largest gatherings of digital
transformation leaders and
emerging digital players taking
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place on 22 of October 2020 in
Singapore. For more information,
visit www.idcdxawards.com .

For more inquiries about IDC DX
Awards, contact Celeste Narvaez
cnarvaez@idc.com or Paula
Jalosjos pjalosjos@idc.com. For
media inquiries, contact Tessa
Rago trago@idc.com or Alvin
Afuang aafuang@idc.com.

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For more information contact:
Sandra Ng (sng)
sng@idc.com
(+65) 6829 7708
Celeste Narvaez (cnarvaez)
cnarvaez@idc.com
(+63) 917 6277 676
Theresa Rago (trago)
trago@idc.com
(+65) 9159 3053
Paula Jalosjos (pjalosjos)
pjalosjos@idc.com
(+63) 917 7940 770
Alvin Afuang (aafuang)
aafuang@idc.com
(+63) 917 7974 586
Charles Cedric Joshua V. Tamayo (cjtamayo)
cjtamayo@idc.com
(+63) 918 9269 072

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