MIDLAND, Mich. – March 24, 2025 – Dowopens in a new tab (NYSE: DOW) received a prestigious 2025 CIO 100 Awardopens in a new tab from Foundry’s CIO for its innovative Market Intelligence Hub (MIH), marking its fifth consecutive win in these annual awards. This recognition highlights Dow's use of advanced AI capabilities, data and intelligence to enhance business insights and to drive efficiency.
Debra Bauleropens in a new tab, chief information and digital officer of Dow, expressed her gratitude for the recognition: “Winning a CIO 100 Award for the fifth straight year is a testament to the remarkable talent of our team, and their commitment to embracing new technology, strategic foresight and solving complex business challenges.”
The Market Intelligence Hub, equipped with OpenAI-assisted chat functionality, offers users access to comprehensive market data, user-driven analysis, customizable smart subscriptions, and generative AI capabilities. These features empower Dow teams to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving market landscape, shape business strategies, identify new opportunities, and foster collaboration across departments.
“MIH represents a fundamental shift in how we approach data management and market intelligence, and positions Dow for enhanced agility in a rapidly changing, competitive landscape,” said Chris Bruman, chief data and analytics officer.
MIH provides users with extensive industry trends, customer behaviors, and competitive landscapes, enabling informed decision-making. The platform allows users to transform raw data into strategic intelligence through customizable analysis tools. Users can configure personalized search criteria and generate targeted email subscriptions with AI capabilities, ensuring they receive the most relevant information. MIH leverages AI to create news and report summaries, and users can interact with both business-curated intelligence and external web data through the OpenAI-assisted chatbot.
Elizabeth Cutler, Content Director of the CIO 100 Symposium & Awards, stated, “The CIO 100 Awards recognize IT leaders and teams who drive innovation, transformation, and business success through technology. 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 more information about the CIO 100 Awards, visit www.cio.comopens in a new tab.
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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 (NYSE: 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.
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For further information, please contact:
Christy English
1 989.615.4619
christy.english@dow.com