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Leadership Awards Judging Criteria
Judging Criteria
Judges will evaluate and score candidates in each category using the following criteria:
Project Categories
- Process Impact: Did the project transform a key process or processes that resulted in greater efficiency, speed, cost effectiveness, or an entirely new dimension of value for the company?
- Business Impact: Did the project aid in the company’s growth financially, in market share, in reputation, or in customer satisfaction?
- Strategic Impact: Did the project help enable and advance the company’s long-term business goals, further its digital transformation, and/or expand its future growth opportunities?
- Use of Technology: To what extent was the use of advanced technology key to enabling the project?
- Scale of project: Did the project encompass or hold the potential to encompass a significant percentage of the company’s operational footprint?
Digital Transformation Leadership Category (Individual)
- Company Impact: Did the individual’s achievement significantly advance his or her company’s operational digital transformation?
- Industry Impact: Did or should the individual’s achievement serve as a model for other manufacturing leaders?
- Manufacturing Impact: Did or should the individual’s achievement serve as a model for how to conduct manufacturing operations at other companies?
Next-Generation Leadership Category (Individual)
- Disruptive Innovation Impact: Did the individual successfully promote ideas and lead projects that embodied new ways of thinking?
- Collaborative Innovation Impact: Did the individual inspire others and play a significant role in creating new or unique organizational models, including cross-functional teams, that took a collaborative approach to solving problems or creating new ways of doing things?
- Social Impact: Did the individual enhance the perception of manufacturing’s value for other potential next-generation leaders?