IDC Future Enterprise Awards: Future of Connectedness

Tuesday Dec. 12  |  2:00-4:00 PM ET

The IDC Future Enterprise Awards is proud to present the IDC Future Enterprise North America Best in Future of Connectedness North America Award winner. Our overall winner, from the Town of Morrisville, North Carolina, featuring their project, Connected Parks & Morrisville Central building a Smart Morrisville is creating a culture of connectedness by focusing on being data-driven, community focused, and future-forward.

This award recognizes the organization that has transformed and digitalized processes to ensure employees (people), things (systems, devices), applications, and processes connect to enable the seamless flow of data and drive business outcomes. This transformation should highlight performance and efficiency improvements from seamless human-machine interactions, collaborative work environments, and experiences, and demonstrate an intelligent and dynamic environment unbounded by time or physical space.
 

Speakers: 

• Paul Hughes, Research Director, Future of Connectedness
• Billy Whitehead, Smart City Program Manager, Town of Morrisville, NC
• Rick Ralph, CIO, Town of Morrisville, NC

The Future Enterprise: Being Digital First

IDC’s vision of the future Enterprise is and organization that must operate and invest to participate in increasingly digital-first markets. It is a framework for fostering a digital-first culture, one that leverages trusted industry ecosystems, generates profitable revenue growth from empathetic customer experiences, and demonstrates an ability to adapt operating models to complex customer requirements. All of this is built on a digital infrastructure and enabled by an intelligent, empowered and well-connected workforce. 

The IDC Future enterprise Awards continue to redefine being digital first, aligning its categories and selection criteria to reflect how organizations can successfully bring their businesses in the Future. Featuring the eight digital-first building blocks, the new benchmarks needed for organizations to close the digital gap – and become the Future Enterprises in our digital-first world.