Foundry's CIO 100 Award recognizes enterprise
excellence and innovation in IT
COLUMBUS, Ga., Aug. 7, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Aflac has been selected as a 2024 CIO 100 award
winner by Foundry's CIO. For more than 25 years, the CIO 100
Awards have recognized innovative organizations around the world
that exemplify the highest level of strategic and operational
excellence in IT.
At Aflac, we don't just sell a product, we
sell a promise: to be there for our customers in their time of
need.
Aflac is recognized for its ongoing commitment to improving the
ease of doing business by simplifying customer service, empowering
agents and optimizing employee workflows to ensure the company
consistently delivers on its promise: to be there when customers
need it the most.
"At Aflac, we don't just sell a product, we sell a promise,"
said Aflac Chief Information Officer Shelia
Anderson. "We promise to be there for our customers in their
time of need, which has made us the No. 1 provider of supplemental
health insurance products in the U.S.1 and helps us make
a difference in the lives of our customers every day."
To better fulfill Aflac's promise, the insurer focused on claims
automation and digital processing of life events through its
award-winning MyAflac system. By enhancing claims automation and
delivering digital capabilities for policyholders, the company has
significantly improved the customer experience while also driving
efficiency and cost optimization.
"We are proud to be selected as a CIO 100 honoree for 2024,"
said Anderson. "The Aflac Digital Services team was instrumental in
enhancing our customer experience while automating and
significantly increasing claim accuracy and speed. This ensures
seamless operations and drives a cohesive digital experience across
all interactions with our customers. It is imperative that CIOs
remain focused on providing business solutions that help the
company achieve its overall goals."
The CIO 100 Awards program celebrates and recognizes visionary
and collaborative IT leaders. It is designed to celebrate team
contributions that make a company elite within the IT space.
"The CIO 100 Symposium & Awards continues a tradition of
over 25 years of the highest quality content for IT leaders and
their teams. In addition to celebrating 100 organizations during
the dinner and awards ceremony, I am thrilled to feature many of
these IT leaders as speakers," stated Elizabeth Cutler, content director, CIO 100
Symposium & Awards. "The award-winning teams share a passion
for excellence, a customer-centric mindset, and a drive to invest
in technologies that elevate business value."
Executives from the winning companies will be recognized at the
CIO 100 Symposium & Awards on Aug.
7 in Colorado Springs,
Colorado. Click here to view the 2024 CIO 100 honorees.
About Aflac Incorporated
Aflac Incorporated (NYSE: AFL), a Fortune 500 company, has
helped provide financial protection and peace of mind for more than
68 years to millions of policyholders and customers through its
subsidiaries in the U.S. and Japan. In the U.S., Aflac is the No. 1
provider of supplemental health insurance products.1 In
Japan, Aflac Life Insurance Japan
is the leading provider of cancer and medical insurance in terms of
policies in force. The company takes pride in being there for its
policyholders when they need us most, as well as being included in
the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere for 18 consecutive
years (2024), Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies for 23 years
(2024) and Bloomberg's Gender-Equality Index for the fourth
consecutive year (2023). In addition, the company became a
signatory of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) in
2021 and has been included in the Dow Jones Sustainability North
America Index (2023) for 10 years. To find out how to get help with
expenses health insurance doesn't cover, get to know us at
aflac.com or aflac.com/espanol. Investors may learn more about
Aflac Incorporated and its commitment to corporate social
responsibility and sustainability at investors.aflac.com under
"Sustainability."
1LIMRA 2023 U.S. Supplemental Health Insurance Total
Market Report
About the U.S. 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 2024 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 U.S. 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 190.
About CIO
CIO focuses on attracting the highest concentration of
enterprise CIOs and business technology executives with
unparalleled peer insight and expertise on business strategy,
innovation, and trends and a keen understanding of IT's role in
achieving business goals. CIO is published by Foundry, an IDG Inc.
Company. Company information is available at www.foundryco.com
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Media contact: Jon
Sullivan, 706-763-4813 or jsullivan@aflac.com
Analyst and investor contact: David A. Young, 706-596-3264, 800-235-2667
or dyoung@aflac.com
CIO media contact: Rachael
Ferranti, Corporate Marketing,
FoundryRachael.Ferranti@foundryco.com
CIO awards contact: Allie Billington
Allie_Billington@foundryco.com CIO 100 and CIO HoF Awards
Manager, Foundry
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