Adam Warby of Avanade

http://www.dynamicsworld.co.uk/top-100/

The Microsoft Dynamics Most Influential People 2012 List is the fourth annual list that we have published. This year we have hot new highs in terms of the people that we have been able to network with to establish the best list that we can possibly have.

The list comes from what can be considered to mean influence. We have to make the distinction between the direct influence of a manager on an employee and the indirect influence of a blogger on the reader. The challenge is to be able to create a way in which we are able to assess all areas on influence and more importantly the impact that this impact has on those in the Microsoft Dynamics Community.

To this end we have established a firm 8 criteria that we feel we are able to monitor as well as able to distinguish between the different nominees. The starting point in the criteria is that of peer review, without the respect of your peers there is very little hope that you will have any influence and so we ensure that one quarter of the final score is from peer review, this is split between the nominations and the voting. With more than 1000 nominations including some odd nominations for Steve Jobs we are able to start to bring the listing down to the final 400 nominees who can be voted on. Here it is not the number the votes that people get but rather we rank those in order of vote’s casts and give each nominee a score commensurate with their position in regard to the votes cast. We still do find that there are some people that try and slew the voting in their favour with the use of bots to automate votes, this is fairly easy for us to spot, and this does nullify their final voting score element.

The voting does show a very positive message for Microsoft within the results, we received votes from more than 120 countries; the community is growing in some unusual places.

We have also this year started to use existing influence tools such as Klout and PeerIndex. This has enabled us to be able to assess scores for nominees in terms of their social media influence. The social media scores are then balanced against criteria which are based upon revenue generated in the Microsoft Dynamics Channel. For this element we do have to thank those within VARs and ISVs that have been very open with us.

We have then looked at the criteria that is possibly the most quantifiable of all, that of Microsoft experience, without placing all those who are working for Microsoft on the list, we assess scores for the years that people have been in the community, the years in which they have held technical certifications including MVP status, we also assess the number of projects that nominees have been involved in.

This may not make for your ideal way to create the list, and as ever we are always looking to work with our network to create the best list we can. But this year we have seen more than 1000 tweets, 200 Facebook messages and I am sure you have all been made aware of those in your Linkedin network canvassing for your votes. As well as a truly global list with the most number of countries represented on the list. The main list has representatives from 21 countries.

As ever we are amazed by the response, the time those of you have taken, to nominate, vote and send us your biographies. On behalf of all of us at DynamicsWorld thank you very much for your support.

The full list can be seen at

www.dynamicsworld.co.uk/top-100/

1 Kirill Tatarinov

2 Adam Warby

3 Mike Gillis

4 Doug Kennedy

5 Poul Kjaer

6 Preben Damgaard

7 Jesper Balser

8 Jon Roskill

9 Klaus Holse Andersen

10 Claus Hansen

11 Doug Burgum

12 Allison Watson

13 Erik Ernst

14 Leen Zevenbergen

15 Torben Wind

16 Mark Polino

17 Andy Hafer

18 Andy Snook

19 Eric Wauters

20 Mark Corley  

21 Brad Wilson

22 Luc Van Dyck

23 Brandon George

24 Russell Smith

25 Michael Blatherwick

26 Mogens Elsberg

27 Andy Vabulas

28 Nico Tissink

29 Carsten Olholm

30 Mariano Gomez

31 Ben Grech

32 Dhan Raj Bansal

33 Shane Hall

34 Dilip Nair

35 Felipe Girado

36 Alex Vandereycken

37 Alper Tekin

38 Mohammad Daoud

39 Erik Van Hoof

40 uMar Khan  

41 Steve Ballmer

42 Mark Rhodes

43 Garth Laird

44 Jurgen Beck

45 Richard Hines

46 Jorg Stryk

47 Mohammed Rasheed

48 Girish Raja

49 John Kleb

50 Sandeep Walia

51 Vjekoslav Babic

52 Andre dos Reis Santos

53 Darryl Henderson

54 Jeff Edwards

55 Torben Brammer

56 Dick Wenning

57 Frank Lee

58 Rene Gayer

59 Brian Ocheltree

60 Jim Glass  

61 Jimmi Jakobsen

62 Timo Lasser

63 Carsten Howitz

64 Jens Bach Larsen

65 Steven Weaver

66 Stian Stabell

67 Kees Hertogh

68 Leslie Vail

69 Guobjartur Pall Guobjartsson

70 Satya Narayana

71 Matthew Wittemann

72 Hal Howard

73 Simon Bright

74 Mark Brummel

75 Dwight Specht

76 Tom Galambos

77 Mariano Arias

78 Frank Ziccarelli

79 Steve Endow

80 David Singleton  

81 Steve Farr

82 Brandon Kirby

83 Arijit Basu

84 Fiona Nolan

85 Victoria Yudin

86 Ilya Feigin

87 Paul White

88 Axel Kuhn

89 Christina Philips

90 Clinton Weldon

91 Heine Krog Iversen

92 Soren Alexandersen

93 Harish Mohanbabu

94 Lisa Frank

95 Toni Savage

96 Hynek Mulhbacher

97 Leon Tribe

98 Frank Maier

99 Per Mogensen

100 Luc Van Vugt ]]> http://www.dynamicsworld.co.uk/microsoft-dynamics-top-100-most-influential-people-the-2011-list/feed/ 0 http://www.dynamicsworld.co.uk/one-week-to-go/ http://www.dynamicsworld.co.uk/one-week-to-go/#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:32:06 +0000 chris@dynamicsworld.co.uk http://www.dynamicsworld.co.uk/?p=6146 The Most Influential People in Microsoft Dynamics for 2012 Voting has a week to go.

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