Neighborly’s Technological Innovation in the Home Services Industry Earns Recognition as 2024 CIO 100 Award Winner

Hub for home services honored for the first time in company history by Foundry’s 30th annual CIO.

WACO, Texas (March 26, 2024) – Neighborly^®, the world’s largest home services company, announced today it has been named a recipient of Foundry’s 2024 CIO 100 Awards. The 30th annual CIO Awards honor 100 organizations worldwide that exemplify the highest level of strategic and operational excellence in IT.

"Receiving the CIO award is a testament to our commitment to driving innovation, fostering leadership, and achieving excellence in the ever-evolving landscape of technology. It's an honor to receive this award and it underscores our dedication to leveraging IT as a strategic asset in propelling Neighborly forward on our digital transformation journey," says Amer Waheed, Chief Technology Officer at Neighborly.

Neighborly's commitment to leading a digital and technological transformation, exemplified by the recent rollout of the Neighborly App 2.0 in 2023, has launched the company into a new analytics era within the home services industry. With strategic investments in IT acceleration, execution of optimizing processes, strengthening business technology leadership and cultivating customer relationships, Neighborly has elevated business value with plans to capitalize on its upward momentum. 

In order to win a CIO 100 Award, applicants must demonstrate excellence in technology innovation and share the measurable impact IT has made on their organization’s business value delivery. Applicants are evaluated and scored by two external judges chosen from a panel of more than 50 judges made up of industry experts, academics, business executives and former CIOs.

“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."

Neighborly will accept its award at the CIO 100 Symposium & Awards August 5-7, 2024, in Colorado Springs. For more information about Neighborly, visit www.neighborly.com.

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 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.

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About Neighborly®

Neighborly® is the world's largest home services company with more than 30 brands and 5,500 franchises in six countries that have collectively served 14 million+ customers by repairing, maintaining, and enhancing their homes and businesses. Through Neighborly.com and the Neighborly mobile app, we connect consumers to local service providers that meet rigorous franchisor standards across 19 service categories. More information about Neighborly, and its franchise concepts, is available at Neighborlybrands.com. To learn about franchising opportunities with Neighborly, click here.

For more information, contact:

Loren Brown, BizCom Associates

(817) 913-0194 | [email protected]