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Enterprise Excellence Awards Night
The Enterprise Excellence Awards 2018 will take place in Ireland’s xxxxxxx on the 1st of November. Primarily designed to recognise and celebrate lean management achievements in Ireland, the awards ceremony will also offer a great opportunity to bring together like minded individuals for a social evening.
Whether a large or small organisation, The Enterprise Excellence Awards is the forum that brings recognition on a National scale.
Shortlisted entrants will have their profiles listed nationally just by making the final, while winners will receive coverage in the National media. In addition, your organisation can return home confident in the recognition of excellence in enterprise delivery
There is no charge to enter the Enterprise Excellence Awards but deadlines for entries will be the 8th of September 2018. As such, don’t delay in submitting your entry!
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We wish all our entrants the best of luck and we look forward to meeting you on the 1st of November.
Itinerary/Award Schedule:
7.00pm - Drinks Reception
7.40pm - Award ceremony begins (intro)
8.00pm – Dinner
9.30pm - Award ceremony resumes
11.00pm – Entertainment
1.00am - Evening Ends
Categories For Entry
- For the most progress made toward operational efficiency
There are 3 awards in this category – sponsored by xxx for micro organisations, by xxx for small organisations and by xxx for medium organisations
- For the Team most driven toward continuous improvement (CI) in their organisation
There are 3 awards in this category – sponsored by xxx for micro organisations, by xxx for small organisations and by xxx for medium organisations
- For Lean Business of the Year Award
There are 3 awards in this category sponsored by xxx for manufacturing organisations, by xxx for services organisations and by xxx for Agri-food organisations
- Research Award for the best contribution to Lean/Operational Excellence body of work
Sponsored by xxx
- Lean Business Ireland Award for Lean organisational leadership of the year
Sponsored by Lean Business Ireland Committee
The Enterprise Excellence Awards
The Enterprise Excellence Awards recognise & celebrate best Lean practices in Ireland.
Whether you are a large or small organisation, the Enterprise Excellence Awards celebrations is the forum which will bring recognition to you on a national scale.
There is no charge to enter the Enterprise Excellence Awards so now is the time to start putting your entry together!
Award Benefits
-Recognition for your CI Team
-Engagement with your Peers
-Celebration of Lean Innovations
-Raise the profile of the SME and their impact on the Economy
Criteria and Categories
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Most Progress Made Toward
Organisational Efficiency
The award is open to companies starting on their lean journey. Those that have made enough progress to see positive results to the bottom line.
The judges will be particularly impressed by those organisations that made an effort to engage the organisation as much as possible and can show real headway towards efficient and effective practice
Entry should be made by written submission supported by visuals such as video or pictures to illustrate progress made, paying particular attention to the criteria below
- Initiatives undertaken and no of staff involved
- No of champions in place
- Culture improvement initiatives
- Improvements in work practices including the lean practices used
- Annualised cost savings made
- Future focus – future projects identified
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Team Award for the Team most Driven Toward CI in Their organisation
This award is open to Continuous Improvement Teams who have driven a programme of CI across a number of business areas in their organisation.
The judges will want to know what you did, what were the outcomes and how you engaged others in the CI programme. Additionally, describe how you worked together as a team and how that worked in practice
You must explain what you have achieved so far and what you hope to achieve in the future. And you need to show evidence of the overall outcomes and impact of your work as a team.
Entry should be made by written submission supported by visuals such as video or pictures to illustrate progress made, paying particular attention to the criteria below
- Identified improved working practices
- Team initiatives identified
- Team Engagement and commitment
- Outcomes achieved
Heading
Lean Business of The
Year Award
This award is open to any organisation that has implemented a lean strategy designed to reduce inefficiencies, eliminate waste and create a culture of doing things to continuously improve the delivery to the customer
The judges will want to know everything you do in order to achieve your objectives, clearly identifying the culture of a lean approach across all areas of the business.
You must explain what you have achieved so far and what you hope to achieve in the future. The judges will want to see evidence of an overall strategy that sets out your targets and how you plan to achieve them and hard statistics demonstrating year-on-year comparisons.
Entry should be made by written submission supported by visuals such as video or pictures to illustrate progress made, paying particular attention to the criteria below
- Holistic/organisational approach taken
- Business growth resulting
- Improved competitiveness
- Cultural improvements
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Research Award for the Best Contribution to Lean/Operational Excellence Body of Work
This award is open to all Educational Institutes that have contributed to the research and conclusion drawn about the impact of lean on
The judges will be looking for the following types of papers:
Empirical papers that report original research work with the objective of demonstrating enterprise excellence approaches in action. These can take the form of Lean, Six Sigma, Continuous Improvement initiatives, Cultural changes and Organisational alignment, etc.
Interventionist papers that report original research work with the objective of improvements of in enterprise performance
Conceptual and critical review papers that either seek to define a research issue and propose a theoretical exposition/explanation capable of empirical testing (e.g., theoretical papers), or draw upon or synthesize existing knowledge to define what is currently known about a topic or issue (e.g., literature review papers, methodological papers) .
Entry should be made by paper submission, paying particular attention to the following:
- Research & theoretical/practical framing
- Research context, methodology and analysis
- Discussion & conclusion
- Organisational & social Impact
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Lean Business Ireland Award for Lean Organisational Leadership of the year
This award is open to companies that can demonstrate leadership in the application of lean practices across their organisation.
The judges will want to see overall leadership taken where areas of the business need to be challenged and efficiencies made.
You must explain what you have achieved so far and what you hope to achieve in the future. And we need to see evidence of an overall strategy that sets out your targets and how you plan to achieve them. Evidence should be presented of results and effort and how the overall team was engaged to achieve the strategy.
Entry should be made by written submission supported by visuals such as video or pictures to illustrate progress made, paying particular attention to the criteria below
- Shows energy and drive
- Is results orientated
- Can demonstrate Organisation culture change towards CI
- Shows Influence
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Lean Business of The
Year Award
This award is open to any organisation that has implemented a lean strategy designed to reduce inefficiencies, eliminate waste and create a culture of doing things to continuously improve the delivery to the customer
The judges will want to know everything you do in order to achieve your objectives, clearly identifying the culture of a lean approach across all areas of the business.
You must explain what you have achieved so far and what you hope to achieve in the future. The judges will want to see evidence of an overall strategy that sets out your targets and how you plan to achieve them and hard statistics demonstrating year-on-year comparisons.
Entry should be made by written submission supported by visuals such as video or pictures to illustrate progress made, paying particular attention to the criteria below
- Holistic/organisational approach taken
- Business growth resulting
- Improved competitiveness
- Cultural improvements
How to Enter
It is free to enter the Enterprise Excellence Awards.
When completing your entry, please follow these rules:
- All activities cited in support of your entries must have been ongoing within the past 24 months from the closing date of these awards.
- Please ensure your submission fits onto no more than 5 A4 pages in portrait PDF format including supporting materials such as pictures, graphs, tables etc.
- Please answer each of the key criteria points allocated to the category that you are entering. This is what the judges base their scores on. Back up your key points with other information such as tables, graphics, figures, pictures etc.
- The entering party does not have to be resident in the ROI or NI, but the projects that support their entry must have taken place in these geographies.
You will need the following to complete your entry:
Your PDF entry document.
- A 100 word summary of your entry. This may be used in full in our Awards booklet or in our script. It must be relevant to the category you are entering: so, if you are entering a project, the summary must be about the project.
- 2 high resolution landscape photos (300 dpi) relevant to your entry and the category you are entering: so, if you are entering a project, the photos must be about the project; if you are entering a Team, it must be of that Team. These will be used as part of the AV presentation on the night, so choose photos that you are proud to display.
- A jpeg version of your organisation ‘s logo
- The name of the person who will accept the award on your behalf in the event you should win. This may be used in post Awards media coverage.
Please note: All of the above items will be required in order to submit your entry, and you will not be able to modify your entry once uploaded.
Judges & Judging Processes
A large multinational company will be allocated to shortlist an award and will the pass those shortlisted to a panel of judges. This panel will be made up of judges based in Ireland as well as judges from further afield, bringing their international expertise and experience to the judging process.
To view who will be judging this year’s Awards, visit www.eeireland.com/awards.
Shortlisting:
- Once the entry deadline is reached all entries will be carefully examined and scored using the criteria by the multinational company
- The highest scoring submissions will be selected to go forward to the shortlist for each category.
- You will receive an email from the Event Team informing you if your entry was successful or not.
- The shortlist of finalists will be published in a National newspaper and also on the Awards’ website and other relevant industry publications.
Judging:
- The panel may visit the shortlisted organisations for each category to verify the content of the entry
- All judges score finalists based on the relevant
category criteria.
- Scores are then collected by the event team and collated.
Our focus is to deliver a balanced judging assessment from industry leaders who will bring their extensive knowledge, enthusiasm and expertise to the judging process ensuring that the winning entries are truly outstanding and worthy of receiving a Lean Award.
The panel is carefully selected to ensure the Awards judging process is fair and objective. The Judges are bound by a strict confidentiality agreement and are required to declare any conflict of interest in entries over which they deliberate, in which case that entry will be reallocated. The integrity of this process lies at the very heart of all that we do.
We recognise and respect the sensitive nature of the information submitted in the entries. Submissions are not disclosed or discussed outside the judging process. We do not publish the names of companies, organisations or individuals that have not been shortlisted for an Award, nor will we reproduce any information from your entry unless prior permission is given.
A comprehensive judging process has been put together to decide the worthy winners of The Enterprise Excellence Awards:
Judging Process
- After the closing date for receiving submissions, all entries will be sent to the multinational company for shortlisting
- Entries will be carefully selected to go forward to the shortlist for each category to the judging panel
- The shortlist of finalists will be published on the Awards website.
- The judges will score each of the entries allocated to them against a predetermined set of scores.
- Scores are then collected and collated, with the entrant receiving the highest overall score being declared the winner of that category.
- The winners will be announced at the 2018 awards ceremony. The judge's decision is final and no correspondence, telephone, email or communication of any kind will be entered into in relation to decisions reached.
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