Honor your organization's CIO or innovative business leader by nominating them for a SuperNova Award. The SuperNova Awards honor leaders that demonstrate excellence in the application and adoption of new and emerging technologies. 

The application deadline is August 7, 2015. 

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SuperNova Award Winner: William Cooper, Chief Procurement Officer, University of California

Tasked with saving the University of California $200m annually by 2017, Chief Procurement Officer William Cooper implemented a procurement platform and revised procurment strategy that enabled greater collaboration, spend visibility, and more informed negotiations across the University system. Aggressive procurement efforts designed by Cooper, which leverage the UC system’s size and buying power successfully delivered $128 million in savings in 2013.

The program successfully pooled resources across the University system, implemented new systemwide sourcing agreements, leveraged the latest technologies to source high quality products at the lowest cost and improved its data reporting and analytics.

William Cooper won the 2014 SuperNova Award for Technology Optimization & Innovation.


 

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