15^th Ideas Arabia 2020 winners:

1. Winners of “Sustainability” Category:
   • Dubai Municipality for idea of “Implementation of Sustainable Artificial Intelligent Solution in Waste Water Treatment/Recycling Process for Optimizing Energy Consumption”
   • Emirates Global Aluminum for the idea of “Eliminate Excessive Dust Emission in Alumina Conveyor (CV-11) Transfer Point”
2. Winner of “Health and Safety” Category is Dubai Customs for the idea of “Customs Safe Passage Booth”
3. Winner of “Innovation” Category Dubai Police General Headquarter for the idea of “Intelligent Alert System”
4. Winners of “Technology” Category are:
   • Dubai Public Prosecution for the idea of  “Remote Litigation”  
   • Dubai Customs for the idea of  “Customs Mega Scanner” by
   • Roads & Transport Authority Dubai for the idea of “Drivers Testing System”
5. Winner of “Customer Happiness” Category is Dubai Police General Headquarter for the idea of “Zero Customers and Closing Service Centers”
6. Winner of “Financial” Category is Dubai Customs for the idea of “‎Cross Border E-Commerce‎”
7. Winner of “Productivity” Category is Saudi Electricity Company “‎ONLINE WATER FILLING IN VSD CLOSE COOLING SYSTEM‎”
8. Winner of “Educational” Category is General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs Dubai, for the idea of “Future Foresight Diploma” ( دبلوم استشراف المستقبل)
9. Winner of “Best Shared Idea” Category is General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs Dubai, for the idea of “New Generation”
10. Winner of “Best Suggestion Program Coordinator” Category is “Captain Talal Saif Al-Matroushi”, Ajman Police General Headquarter
11. Winner of “Executive Leadership” Category is “Major / Khalid Khalifa Al Mazrouei” - Dubai Police General Headquarter
12. Winner of “Idea of the Year” Category is Dubai Municipality, for the idea of “Implementation of Sustainable Artificial Intelligent Solution in WasteWater Treatment/ Recycling Process for Optimizing Energy Consumption”.

IDEAS ARABIA COMPETITION:

The Ideas Arabia Competition recognizes the most significant ideas implemented during 2019. This competition seeks to recognize employees and organizations for their outstanding ideas. Not only does this competition provide an opportunity for participating companies to benchmark against other leading organizations, but it also acts as a motivational tool for employees.

Participation in the competition has many benefits. It provides additional recognition to your employees and highlights how involving your employees can benefit your organization.

It helps in imparting one’s experience to other companies and provides an opportunity for one’s own employees to learn from practices followed in other organizations.

UAE Ideas Categories 2020

1. Idea of the year.
2. Sustainability
3. Health and Safety
4. Innovation
5. Technology
6. Customer Happiness
7. Financial
8. Productivity
9. Educational
10. Best Shared idea
11. Best Suggestion Program Coordinator
12. Executive Leadership

COMPETITION CRITERIA

• Please follow the instructions below when writing your document. Please use these criteria as headings in your document, provided that the file should not exceed 10 pages.
• All submissions that violate these terms will be excluded.
• Please download our sample PDF from our website.

1. Challenges
Explain the challenges that were faced by the organization or during the concerned job before implementing this suggestion.

2. Solution (The Idea)
Explain the idea that has been generated to address challenges mentioned in the previous section.

3. Planning - Executing the Idea
Explain the planning involved with implementing this Idea which includes resource allocation, internal and external coordination and feasibility studies, if any.

4. Result
Tangible:  Statistics and results from studies which clearly reflect the positive impact from the implementation of this idea if any.
Intangible: Nonfinancial benefits achieved from the implementation of this idea such as, but not limited to, increased satisfaction, reduction in carbon emissions, etc.

5. Transferability
The application of the idea is implemented in more than one organizational unit or outside the organization by others.

Award Assessment:

An award committee/Jury composed of experts from different organizations was used to supervise the outcomes of the assessment process during the competition. This ensures the credibility of the award and ensures that the outcomes are up to the highest standards and compatible with DGEP.

Due to the credibility and status of this award, many organisations throughout the UAE participated in this award in order to enhance their Innovation strategy, corporate excellence, and general performance.

Small teams of expert assessors are formed under this committee to evaluate each award category. The evaluation process takes place in three stages:

Phase 1: All applications are first screened. Application will be passed to the designated assessors’ team for each award category.

Phase 2: Choosing the shortlisted for interviews

Phase 3: Assessors will pass their results to the Award Committee/Jury, to select a winner for each category.

KEY DATES:

• Competition Submission Starting: 12^th April 2020 
• Competition Submission Deadline: 4^th November 2020
• Winners Announcement & Appreciation: 27^th December 2020

REGISTRATION FOR THE AWARD FEES:

Members: AED 1000

Non-Members: AED 1500

SUBMISSION (PER CASE STUDY) FEES:

Members: AED 300

Non-Members: AED 500

PARTICIPATION:

Competition Categories, Criteria, Rules of Entry & Application Form:

Application Form:

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• Click Here to download in Arabic

Example of Completed Application Form:

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• Click Here to download in Arabic

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