Winners and finalists receive additional recognition by having their case studies published in the annual volume of Excellence in Practice by Future Strategies Inc.

Nominations will be judged on excellence demonstrated in the following areas:

• Innovative use of BPM technology to solve unique problems

• Creative and successful implementation of advanced BPM concepts

• Level of integration with other technologies and legacy systems

• Degree of complexity in the business process and underlying IT architecture

• Successful BPM and/or workflow implementation methodology (BPM CoE, Project Team, etc)

• Size, scope and quality of change management process

• Scope and scale of the implementation (e.g. size, geography, inter-company processes)

• Extent and quantifiable impact of productivity improvements

• Significance of cost savings

• Level of increased revenues, product enhancements, customer service or quality improvements

• Impact of the system on competitive positioning in the marketplace

• Proven strategic importance to the organization's mission

• Degree to which the system enabled a culture change within the organization and methodology for achieving that change.

Winners and finalists receive additional recognition by having their case studies published in the annual volume of Excellence in Practice by Future Strategies Inc.

The  Awards Program is managed by Future Strategies Inc., the Awards Director is Layna Fischer in collaboration with Derek Miers of BPM Focus.org, with sponsorship from the following organizations:

BPM.com is the leading destination site for industry news and opinions on Business Process Management.

• OMG - The OMG is a major international standards body. The Business Modeling and Integration Domain Taskforce is actively involved in developing Business Process related standards such as BPMN, BPDM and BPRI. The OMG hosts the BPM Think Tank.

• WfMC - The Workflow Management Coalition has been the long term supporter of the Excellence Awards in BPM and Workflow. Along with developing the Workflow Reference Framework, the WfMC is the home of standards such as XPDL and Wf-XML.