Launching Digital Transformation Excellence Awards 2025, Malaysia
The inaugural Digital Transformation Excellence Awards 2025 commemorates the 26th year of HCLTech in Malaysia and recognizes outstanding achievements in digital transformation across various industries in Malaysia. These awards will celebrate organizations that have demonstrated exceptional innovation, strategic vision and impactful implementation of digital initiatives.
It brings together industry leaders, innovators and technology thought leaders to explore the latest trends, strategies and best practices driving digital transformation across various sectors. With a focus on innovation, disruption and collaboration, the Digital Transformation Excellence Awards provides a platform for networking, knowledge sharing and inspiration.
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Participation Criteria
The awards celebrate outstanding leaders and their achievements in data analytics, cloud transformation, customer experience, cybersecurity and emerging technologies.
The awards aim to inspire and motivate businesses to embrace digitalization, enhance their competitiveness and adapt to the rapidly evolving digital landscape by highlighting successful digital transformation projects and strategies.
These awards are free to enter, and they will be judged by an independent panel of experts drawn from the trade, academia and other thought leaders.
Nomination Process:
Organizations could self-nominate or be nominated by others through the official awards website.
Nominees are required to submit detailed information about their digital transformation initiatives, including objectives, strategies, implementation process, outcomes and impact.
Nominations are reviewed by an independent selection panel comprised of industry experts, academics and thought leaders.
The invitation to nominate is now open
The invitation to submit nominations is now open and will close on January 15, 2025.
Any technology leader, practitioner, firm or end-user can nominate themselves and their projects. However, technology firms must verify and confirm their nominations with the end-user organizations for them to be valid.
Nominees must have a physical presence in Malaysia
The nominated project should already be live, in the deployment stage or in the process of being initiated or have gone live. It must have been initiated between January 2023 and June 2024.
Depending on the quality of nominations received, the judges may award more than one project in a given category OR withdraw a category entirely.
Judging Process
The organizer will consolidate and validate all information in the nomination form. When necessary, the nominee will be contacted to ensure completeness of information before proceeding to the next step.
There will be a two-step assessment.
- Nominations will be curated and assessed by the organizers' analysts
- Judges will review the nominations and give their approval.
Transparency: Document and share the selection process
Fairness: Address conflicts of interest
Diversity: Diverse judging panel for varied perspectives
Comments from the selection panel will be gathered to support the citation of eventual winners in each category.
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Selection Criteria
Innovation
Creativity and originality
Business Impact
Measurable improvements in key performance indicators like revenue, cost savings, productivity and market share
Customer Experience
Adoption User Engagement Acceptance levels, integration into operations
Scalability
Ability to scale the initiative across the organization or sustain its impact over the long term.
Social Responsibility
Consideration of ethical, environmental and societal implications in designing and implementing the digital transformation initiative.
Organisers
The Rainmaker Marketing Group
Managing Director/Principal Publicist
Verticus Consultants
Founder and Consultant
The Rainmaker Marketing Group
Senior Publicist
The Rainmaker Marketing Group
Publicist
The Rainmaker Marketing Group
Publicist
Nominations close on January 15, 2025.
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