Awards Overview and Judging Criteria

• Submissions are open to entrants worldwide and a vendor /consultant may nominate a customer and any company may nominate and submit their own case study. There is no limit to the number of entries you can submit. Each entry requires a separate entry form.

• The awards are given to user organizations demonstrating excellence in Business Process Management (BPM) and Workflow. Particular attention is paid to implementations that support processes extending beyond the corporate boundaries to support customers, suppliers, trading partners etc.

• The Awards are spread across five geographical regions. At the judges’ discretion one engraved Gold and one Silver Award trophy is presented in each of the following regions to the winning user organization (nominee) with a commemorative engraved platter presented to the nominating company. At the judges’ discretion, one Global Award may be presented additionally for particular merit to one overall, outstanding nominee.
   

  • Europe (includes Eastern Europe & Russia)

  • North America (includes USA and Canada)

  • Middle East and Africa

  • Pacific Rim (includes Asia, Australia and Far East)

  • South & Central America (includes Mexico and Caribbean)

Winners and finalists receive additional recognition by having their case studies published in the annual volume of Excellence in Practice by Future Strategies Inc.

Judging Criteria

Nominations will be judged on excellence demonstrated in the following areas:

Innovation

• Innovative use of BPM technology to solve unique problems

• Creative and successful implementation of advanced BPM concepts

• Level of integration with other technologies and legacy systems

• Degree of complexity in the business process and underlying IT architecture

Implementation

• Successful BPM and/or workflow implementation methodology (BPM CoE, Project Team, etc)

• Size, scope and quality of change management process

• Scope and scale of the implementation (e.g. size, geography, inter-company processes)

Impact

• Extent and quantifiable impact of productivity improvements

• Significance of cost savings

• Level of increased revenues, product enhancements, customer service or quality improvements

• Impact of the system on competitive positioning in the marketplace

• Proven strategic importance to the organization's mission

• Degree to which the system enabled a culture change within the organization and methodology for achieving that change.

Winners and finalists receive additional recognition by having their case studies published in the annual volume of Excellence in Practice by Future Strategies Inc.

How to submit an Entry (4-page print-ready PDF) details what you need to prepare.
Please use the template here (zipped Word doc), then send your completed case study by email to awards@futstrat.com.

Awards Sponsors and Management

The Awards Program is managed by Future Strategies Inc., the Awards Director is Layna Fischer in collaboration with Nathaniel Palmer of WfMC with sponsorship from the following organizations:

Media Sponsors

• BPM.com is the leading destination site for industry news and opinions on Business Process Management.

• Future Strategies Inc. Publishers of unique books on BPM and Workflow

Standards Associations

• OMG - The OMG is an international standards body. The Business Modeling and Integration Domain Taskforce is actively involved in developing Business Process related standards such as BPMN, BPDM and BPRI.

• WfMC - The Workflow Management Coalition has been the long term supporter of the Excellence Awards in BPM and Workflow. Along with developing the Workflow Reference Framework, the WfMC is the home of process standards such as XPDL and Wf-XML.

• XPDL.org - XPDL is the Serialization Format for BPMN
  BPMN is a visual process notation standard from the OMG, endorsed by WfMC, and broadly adopted across the industry. But the BPMN standard defines only the look of how the process definition is displayed on the screen. How you store and interchange those process definitions is outside the scope of the standard, and this is where XPDL comes in.

Any questions about your submission should be directed to awards@futstrat.com 
 

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