The 2024 Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp Practitioner of the Year was awarded to Amy Funderburk, Chief Corporate Taxonomist at SAP SE, Germany
The judges praised Amy's nomination, describing in detail going from a "Wild West" of chaos to a well ordered system, despite working with no budget. The nomination impressed the judges because of the complexity, size, and age of the organisation, and how those factors would contribute to making taxonomy work extremely challenging. The magnitude of setting up a "single, comprehensive structure" in an organisation the size of SAP is impressive. Furthermore, the cross-team work as well as the internal and external use spoke to a wide-reaching impact and scope.