IDEAS ARABIA COMPETITION:
The Ideas Arabia Competition recognizes the most significant ideas implemented during the last year. 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
COMPETITION CRITERIA
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 the 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 that clearly reflect the positive impact of the implementation of this idea if any.
Intangible: Nonfinancial benefits achieved from the implementation of this idea such as, but are 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. The 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:
REGISTRATION FOR THE AWARD FEES:
Members: AED 1250
Non-Members: AED 1750
SUBMISSION (PER CASE STUDY) FEES:
Members: AED 300
Non-Members: AED 500
PARTICIPATION:
Competition Categories, Criteria, Rules of Entry & Application Form:
Application Form: TBA
Example of Completed Application Form:
For registration / interest for sponsorship / further information, please contact Ms Doaa Afifi on Email: doaa.afifi@dqg.org / Tel: +971-4-3431950 / Mob: +971-56-5457408
Under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, DQG's Ideas Arabia Subgroup launched the IDEAS ARABIA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE & COMPETITION in 2006.
the Subgroup of Ideas Arabia is pleased to launch the 16th cycle of Ideas Arabia Award & Conference in May 2022.
The Award will provide a forum where experts in Suggestion & Rewarding Scheme from around the world to bring to the Middle East, the latest developments in the Suggestion & Rewarding Scheme and how implementing this will benefit an organization, and thus create a platform for people in this region to share their best practices in this area.
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REGISTRATION / SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES:
For registration/sponsorship / further information, please contact Ms Doaa Afifi on Email: doaa.afifi@dqg.org / Mob: +971-56-5457408