​SEATTLE December 7, 2011 – Chris Miller, Chief Information Officer at Avanade, a global business technology solutions and managed services provider, has been named a Premier 100 IT Leader for 2012 by IDG’s Computerworld. Miller was honored with the lifetime recognition for consistently building strong teams that push technology boundaries to better support today’s complex business demands.

 

Miller has been at the forefront of Avanade’s priority initiatives in the areas of datacenter virtualization and enterprise collaboration. He was further acknowledged for leading his team to effectively execute key IT strategies that address some of today’s toughest business challenges.

 

As Avanade’s Chief Information Officer, Miller is responsible for the leadership, management, and implementation of the technology capabilities that power the company’s 13,000 professionals across more than 20 countries. He champions IT as the fabric that connects Avanade’s business thinkers, technical subject matter experts, and transformative technology solutions. This fabric of people, tools and ideas allows the company to deliver large-scale solutions to customers in every major industry.

 

“Top technologists want to be part of an organization that encourages development at the front edge of innovation,” said Avanade CEO Adam Warby. “Chris consistently sets challenges and empowers his IT team to surpass them. The result is that Avanade has a history of pioneering technologies in house that we can then also adapt to the benefit of our customers. Chris’s recognition as a Premier 100 IT Leader acknowledges his leadership in driving innovative systems that help Avanade improve our performance and enable our global workforce to collaborate and work in ways that deliver the best results for our customers.”

 

Miller joined Avanade after 16 years at Accenture, where he served as a senior business leader for Accenture’s Collaboration 2.0 program. In this role, he oversaw a multi-year initiative to empower 180,000 global employees with next-generation collaboration capabilities. His earlier experience spans a wide range of technology and consulting functions, focused on leveraging Microsoft technology on a true enterprise scale at Accenture.

 

About the Award
The 13th annual Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders award honors individuals who manage internal IT organizations, mentor and motive their business colleagues, create a positive work environment, envision innovative solutions to business challenges, and effectively manage and execute IT strategies. Honorees are selected based on factors including their background, experience, approach towards risk and innovation, and more. A total of 100 honorees are selected each year to receive the lifetime award.

 

The official ranking will be announced in the February 27, 2012 edition of Computerworld. For more information, visit: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9065479/Premier_100_IT_Leaders.

 

Avanade provides business technology solutions and managed services that connect insight, innovation and expertise in Microsoft® technologies to help customers realize results. Our people have helped thousands of organizations in all industries improve business agility, employee productivity, and customer loyalty. Avanade combines the collective business, technical and industry expertise of its worldwide network of experts with the rigor of an industrialized delivery model to provide high quality solutions using proven and emerging technologies with flexible deployment models–on premises, cloud-based or outsourced. Avanade, which is majority owned by Accenture LLP, was founded in 2000 by Accenture and Microsoft Corporation and has 13,000 professionals in more than 20 countries. Additional information can be found at www.avanade.com.

 

Computerworld is the leading source of technology news and information for IT influencers worldwide, providing peer perspective, IT leadership and business results. Computerworld's award-winning web site (www.computerworld.com), bi-weekly publication, focused conference series and custom research forms the hub of the world's largest (40+ edition) global IT media network. In the past five years alone, Computerworld has won more than 100 awards, including Magazine of the Year by American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE) awards in 2010, the 2009 Best Blog from the Neal awards, and 2006 Best Overall Web Publication from ASBPE. Computerworld leads the industry with an online audience of over 3.5 million unique, monthly visitors (Omniture, September 2011). Computerworld is published by IDG Enterprise, a subsidiary of International Data Group (IDG), the world's leading media, events and research company. Company information is available at www.idgenterprise.com.

 

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