The SCOAP Awards of Excellence are presented annually to organizations in the National Capital Region as a means of recognizing leadership, innovation and overall excellence. The Awards are provided as a means of identifying the “Best” from which other organizations throughout Canada can model themselves.

SCOAP is dedicated to the use and management of information and technology in Canada’s emerging knowledge-based society. The Awards reflect this strategic direction by recognizing small, medium and large organizations who have demonstrated leadership in the integration of people, technology and the workplace. There are three categories of awards:

CATEGORY 1: BEST IMPLEMENTATION OR INNOVATIVE USE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - the state-of-the-art of technology implementation and use, tangible organization performance impacts, and competitive use of information. This category will emphasize innovation use of information and technology in “working sites” with “hard benefits” evident in pilots, organizational plans and commitments. Innovative directions should focus on new corporate or market advantages (e.g., use of new technologies for production, engineering, or marketing including multi-media, wireless networks, interactive learning systems, knowledge-based or AI applications, etc.). The central foci of awards for this category will be actual organizational performance impacts and excellence in implementation/project management.

CATEGORY 2: BEST INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PRODUCT OR SERVICE - organizations compete using available technology and services. This category recognizes excellence in the state-of-the-art development of technology products or services which have significant impact on the workplace , organizations or society.

CATEGORY 3: BEST INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE RESULTING IN POSITIVE SOCIAL OR COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT - this category recognizes leadership in the development, implementation or innovative integration of information technology in the advancement of community or social objectives.

RULES

The Awards process is designed to minimize the workload of
nominated organizations. But as can be expected, in order to be objective and fair, SCOAP has found it necessary to have a minimum set of rules;
these are provided below:

• Category 1 & 3 nominations must be with organizations
  with offices/facilities within the Ottawa/Hull area.
• Category 2 nominations must only be of locally developed
  products and/or services
• Projects/Initiatives considered eligible for the awards
  competition will normally be those which consist of multiple communicating workstations
  applied predominantly but not exclusively in an office, facility or client environment and
  which have had or should have significant impact on the performance of the organization.
• Nominations must be received no
  later than midnight, March 5, 1999. Entries in either official language are
  acceptable.
• Recognizing that Projects/Initiatives are transitional
  undertakings, projects at different operating stages will be considered, although
  preference will be given to projects that are implemented beyond the pilot stage.
• Award Winners will be asked to accept their awards at the
  Awards Presentation Ceremonies of COMTECH ‘99, in April
  1999. Selected Winners will also be invited to present a case study on their winning
  project as part of the COMTECH ‘99 Information Technology Conference or GTEC Conference.
• Entries will be judged by a panel appointed by the SCOAP Board of Directors. Decisions of the panel are final. Site visits will be necessary for all finalists to generally confirm not audit results. These
  site visits will require meetings with selected users/clients, application and system
  administrators, and project managers. The process will require approximately 2-3 hours.

EVALUATION CRITERIA

• The efficiency and effectiveness of the process followed to
  plan the project/initiative, select the alternatives, and implement the solution;
• The quality of training and user/client/customer support;
• The degree of project/initiative support by management;
• The level of functionality provided by the project;
• The level of end-user/customer satisfaction;
• The level of integration with the environment including
  linkage to corporate applications;
• The level of technical and organizational innovation;
• The scope of the project;
• The level of project completion; and
• The degree of professionalism.
• Contribution to positive business results or
  social/community improvement.

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