Dow Wins 2025 CIO 100 Award for Market Intelligence Hub
Dow has once again secured a prestigious accolade, winning the 2025 CIO 100 Award from Foundry’s CIO. This recognition highlights the company’s commitment to technological innovation, particularly through its Market Intelligence Hub (MIH). Notably, this marks Dow’s fifth consecutive year being honored in the annual CIO 100 Awards, underscoring the company’s consistent excellence in integrating advanced technologies to enhance business processes.
A Testament to Team Excellence
Debra Bauler, Chief Information and Digital Officer at Dow, shared her thoughts on this remarkable achievement. “Winning a CIO 100 Award for the fifth straight year is a testament to the remarkable talent of our team,” Bauler said. “Their commitment to embracing new technology, strategic foresight, and solving complex business challenges is what drives our success.”
This ongoing recognition emphasizes Dow’s ongoing commitment to pushing the boundaries of what is possible in business technology, using innovation to drive efficiency and business growth.
Market Intelligence Hub: The Power of AI and Data
At the heart of Dow’s success is its Market Intelligence Hub (MIH), which has earned praise for its innovative use of artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics. Equipped with OpenAI-assisted chat functionality, the MIH platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools that empower Dow teams with critical business insights. By combining vast market data, user-driven analysis, and customizable smart subscriptions, MIH is designed to help Dow maintain a competitive edge in a fast-changing market.
“MIH represents a fundamental shift in how we approach data management and market intelligence,” said Chris Bruman, Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Dow. “It positions Dow for enhanced agility in a rapidly changing, competitive landscape.”
Dow Wins 2025 CIO 100 Award for Market Intelligence Hub
Transforming Raw Data into Strategic Insights
One of the standout features of MIH is its ability to transform raw data into actionable intelligence. The platform provides Dow employees with access to extensive market trends, customer behaviors, and competitor landscapes. This data can be analyzed in a variety of ways, allowing users to make informed decisions that drive business success.
MIH includes customizable analysis tools that enable users to configure personalized search criteria, ensuring they receive the most relevant information tailored to their specific needs. Additionally, the platform’s AI capabilities offer users the ability to generate targeted email subscriptions, further enhancing the platform’s ability to deliver strategic insights.
Generative AI and Customizable Analysis Tools
The integration of generative AI takes MIH to the next level. The platform can automatically create summaries of news and reports, allowing users to quickly digest the most important information. The AI-driven tools also allow users to interact with both business-curated intelligence and external web data, providing a comprehensive view of the market landscape.
Furthermore, the OpenAI-assisted chatbot offers users a more interactive experience, allowing them to engage with both internal data and external information with ease. This functionality makes MIH a powerful tool for Dow’s teams, helping them stay ahead of the curve in a fast-moving market environment.
Recognition from Industry Leaders
Elizabeth Cutler, Content Director of the CIO 100 Symposium & Awards, highlighted the significance of the CIO 100 Awards. “The CIO 100 Awards recognize IT leaders and teams who drive innovation, transformation, and business success through technology,” she said. “With an exceptionally high caliber of submissions each year, winning a CIO 100 Award is a true honor, highlighting the bold vision, strategic excellence, and groundbreaking impact of the most influential CIOs shaping the future of digital enterprise.”
For Dow, winning the CIO 100 Award for the fifth consecutive year further solidifies its position as a leader in digital transformation. The company’s commitment to leveraging cutting-edge technologies like AI and data analytics continues to drive success, positioning Dow for continued growth and innovation in the years to come.
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About the US CIO 100 Awards: The annual US CIO 100 Awards celebrate 100 organizations and the teams within them that use IT in innovative ways to deliver business value, whether by creating competitive advantage, optimizing business processes, enabling growth, or improving relationships with customers. The award is an acknowledged mark of enterprise excellence. Coverage of the 2025 US CIO 100 award-winning projects will be available online at www.cio.com in the weeks and months leading up to the event.
About the US CIO Hall of Fame Awards: The US CIO Hall of Fame was created in 1997 to spotlight 12 outstanding IT leaders who had significantly contributed to and profoundly influenced the IT Discipline, the use of technology in business, and the advancement of the CIO role. Ten years later, in 2007, CIO inducted its second class of honorees into the CIO Hall of Fame during CIO magazine’s 20th anniversary celebration. The CIO Hall of Fame induction ceremony continues to showcase this elite group of CIOs – now numbering over 200.
About Dow
Dow is one of the world’s leading materials science companies, serving customers in high-growth markets such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility and consumer applications. Our global breadth, asset integration and scale, focused innovation, leading business positions and commitment to sustainability enable us to achieve profitable growth and help deliver a sustainable future. We operate manufacturing sites in 30 countries and employ approximately 36,000 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $43 billion in 2024. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. Learn more about us and our ambition to be the most innovative, customer-centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company in the world by visiting www.dow.comopens in a new tab.
