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How to enter
The Utility Industry Achievement Awards, sponsored by some of the world’s leading companies, are designed to recognise achievement across Britain’s utility industry.
The awards bring the electricity, gas and water industries together to reward the very best business practice in the last year. The judges, key independent industry experts, will be looking for evidence of excellence, both measurable and memorable. Please provide dates, facts and figures where appropriate to support your entry.
We want:
Approximately 1,000 words in total giving concise details under the following headings:
• How did you identify your project?
• After identifying business benefits, what methods of implementation were considered, what route was chosen and why?
• What was the scope and influence of the project?
• What was the measure of success?
• What competitive advantage has it given you?
• What was the business benefit?
• What was the customer/employee benefit?
• Ensure you include detail, be specific and give clear examples where possible
• Include evidence where possible to support your entry such as photographs, marketing material, web pages and financial results
• Keep it short and simple. The judges do not want to read through masses of irrelevant information to find out what you have achieved. Remember it’s the quality of the achievement that will impress the judges not the size and weight of the entry!
Each category will be judged by a panel of independent judges. A shortlist will be published in Utility Week on 9 October 2009. All entrants will be informed by email whether they have been shortlisted or not.
Entries will not normally be returned. Information contained in entries will be treated in confidence though a short summary of the shortlisted and winning entries may be published and used in the awards ceremony. Please make it clear in the entry if any data must not be made public.
• PLEASE NOTE: All entries for 2009 can be uploaded online.
• Read carefully the description of the category.
• Read the top tips of what the judges are looking for.
• Explain in no more than 1,000 words why you deserve the Award: what you set out to do and what has been achieved.
• Provide supporting evidence.
• Complete an online entry form for each category.
• Attach your written statement and any images or graphics.
• OR if using a hard copy entry form, send three hard copies of your entry to Chiselle Millett, Utility Industry Achievement Awards desk, 3rd Floor, Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5AS. The completed forms and entry must reach Utility Week by 18 September 2009.
• This year, to enable our judges to preview entries, prior to the judging day, we are also asking entrants to upload their 1,000 word entry to the website. This part will be password protected so only judges can download the entries.
Entries should be uploaded by 18 September 2009.
• Any questions please contact: Chiselle Millet on tel 020 8652 8036 or chiselle.millett@rbi.co.uk
Good luck!
