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ASAP Alliance Excellence Awards
Call for Award Nominations
The Global Board of Directors of the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP) is pleased to open the nomination process for this year's Alliance Excellence Awards. These awards recognize and celebrate companies that have achieved significant success in their results through excellent alliance management.
Some of our more recent winners of the Alliance Excellence Awards include: The Coca-Cola Company, Citrix, Autodesk, EDS, Cisco Systems, Inc., Fujitsu, Eli Lilly and Company, Roche, P&G, Royal Philips Electronics, KLM, Northwest Airlines, HP, BT, Siebel Systems, IBM, Harley Davidson Motor Company, Starbucks Coffee Company, Federal Express Corporation, Unisys Corporation, Texas Instruments Educational and Productivity Solutions and ILOG.
The Awards Committee encourages submissions from mid-sized and smaller companies as well as from major corporations. The committee will actively consider long-established alliances whose impact is only starting to be felt. Alliances and alliance program submissions will be considered from across industries and across the corporate value chain from R&D and Joint Product Development Alliances and Alliance Programs to Strategic Sourcing and Services to Marketing and Channel Alliances. The Committee also encourages the submission of nominees whose alliances or alliance programs have created significant benefit through their activity.
Award Categories
The Committee seeks submissions on both Alliance Programs and Individual Alliances whether with one or multiple partners. Awards will be presented in the following categories:
- Growth Company Alliance-Management Excellence
- Mid-Sized and Small Company Alliance
- Emerging Alliance
- Long-Established Alliance
- Alliance Program Excellence Award
- Alliance for Social Responsibility
Criteria for Nominations
To help you consider companies to recommend or for your own company's guidelines, the Awards Committee has prepared a list of criteria. These criteria can be used to frame your submission:
Exemplary: The alliance or alliance program service as a model of effective management. The alliance management program is tightly linked to the company's strategy and spread across the organization. The program is built on best practices and is well integrated with regular business processes. The company has built up sensitivity to the importance of alliances across the organization - from top management down.
Innovative: The individual alliance or alliance program has advanced the state of the art of alliance management. It could be perceived as cutting-edge in tis approach and has contributed to learning.
High-Impact: The company has achieved business success through its alliances and alliance management approach. Its alliances have created significant real value. Other companies look to it as a model. The company's partners find that their performance is improved by working with it.
Open: The company has been active in sharing the learnings from their alliances and alliance programs
All nominations will be reviewed by our awards committee. Please review the following suggestions to assist you in your nomination submission(s):
- Provide clear examples reflecting the award category to explain why your nominated company deserves to win the award.
- If the award is specific to one alliance, explain the benefits received by all partners in the alliance (e.g., successes in achieving or surpassing goals).
- Consider providing metrics used to validate the successful results of the alliance.
- Consider sharing best practices used to meet your accomplishments.
- If your nominated alliance has been acknowledged in the trade or business press, please include copies of the articles.
The Alliance Excellence Awards nominations are closed. Please stay tuned for information. For a list of 2010 Alliance Excellence Award winners, click here.