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Gartner Accepting Nominations for First Annual High Performance Workplace Excellence Awards |
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| Award-winning Case Studies to be Discussed on Gartner Analyst Panel at Inaugural Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit in Las Vegas, April 3-5 2006 |
STAMFORD, Conn., February 14, 2006 — Gartner, Inc. is accepting nominations for its first annual High Performance Workplace (HPW) Excellence Awards. Nominations will be accepted via an online entry form for any end-user organization which has exhibited excellence in the application of new technologies which enhance the high performance workplace. Nominations will be accepted through March 1, 2006.
"High performance workplaces are business driven, employee and team-centered," said Tom Austin, group vice president and Gartner Fellow. "They drive innovation, creativity, collaboration, transformational change and organizational learning across the business ecosystem. The HPW Excellence Awards honor those companies that have shown leadership in recognizing the power and potential of the high performance workplace and are dedicated to promoting excellence and innovation in workplace management and technology."
Gartner analysts will recognize and discuss the award-winning cases during a panel discussion at the inaugural Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit in Las Vegas, April 3-5, 2006. The honorees will receive their awards at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2006 in San Francisco, May 14-18.
The four categories of the HPW Excellence Awards are:
- Business Innovation — The business innovation award recognizes the smartest workplace investments (organizational, physical, technical, operational, and others.) that resulted in people creating new competitive advantages for their enterprise.
- Culture Change — The culture change award honors those who effected significant culture change that dramatically improved their business.
- Narrow, Fast and High Impact — This award honors projects that combine great linkage to specific, board-level strategic initiatives, narrowly defined user groups, clearly defined, specific objectives, such as helping find and evaluate acquisition candidates and a quickly achieved, high return on investment.
- People-Centered Solutions — The people-centered award recognizes organizations that improved their competitive position by improving their focus on their people.
A team of Gartner analysts will evaluate and rate each entry. Some of the key factors participants will be judged on are clarity of initial objectives and metrics, innovation, cultural sensitivity and focus, inclusiveness, synergy and generality.
More information on Gartner's HPW Excellence Awards and the online entry form, are available at www.gartner.com/hpwawards or on the Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Web site at www.gartner.com/us/pcc1.
About Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit
The Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit is the only event designed to explain the technologies and best practices required for innovative work to happen. This three-day forum looks at workplace technologies such as portals, content management, communications tools, office suites, VoIP, collaboration support technologies and mobile devices. Analysts will discuss how these technologies are a key element in raising overall organizational productivity and employee impact. Many of the 40-plus content sessions will feature case studies and panel discussions presented by end users and industry professionals. For complete event details, please visit the Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit Web site at www.gartner.com/us/pcc1. Members of the media can register by contacting Christy Pettey at christy.pettey@gartner.com.
CONTACTS:
Christy Pettey
Gartner
(408) 468-8312
christy.pettey@gartner.com
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About Gartner:
Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) delivers the technology-related insight necessary for its clients to make the right decisions, every day. Gartner serves 10,000 organizations, including chief information officers and other senior IT executives in corporations and government agencies, as well as technology companies and the investment community. The Company consists of Gartner Research, Gartner Executive Programs, Gartner Consulting and Gartner Events. Founded in 1979, Gartner is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, U.S.A., and has 3,900 associates, including 1,200 research analysts and consultants in 75 countries worldwide. For more information, visit www.gartner.com.
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