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“Welcome to the BIZZ Awards!”

This is where you get to nominate your company for this prestigious award.
You are only questions away from being awarded with the Business Excellence Award.
It will only take a few minutes. Your future self and your company will thank you for it!

“THE BIZZ AWARDS”

BUSINESS EXCELLENCE QUESTIONNAIRE

    I. INFORMATION ABOUT THE COMPANY/INSTITUTION



    NAME OF THE TOP DIRECTOR

    II. COMPANY FOUNDING INFORMATION

    III. REFERENCES

    Please list three suppliers that your company works with.

    Please list three of the most important clients of your company.

    A. MANAGERIAL LEADERSHIP

    1. Inclusion in business rankings UP to 5 POINTS
    Is your company or institution considered in any business ranking? We would appreciate if you could specify by including the location and category. Moreover, include the source of this information to enable us to corroborate this.

    2. Participation in civic society UP to 6 POINTS

    a) Is your leadership recognized in your official associations?

    YESNO

    b) For how long have you been an active member of an official association?

    1-5 years5 years or more

    c) Are you a member of more than one official association?

    d) Have you presented and executed proposals through your official association/s?

    e) Do you collaborate with some official associations that you are not a member of?

    f) Do you participate or have participated actively and positively in government programs that are different from public contracts?

    3. Internet Presence UP to 3 POINTS

    a) Your company has had a web-site for more than three years.

    b) Your company's web portal appears within the top 500 search results.

    c) What is your website's ranking in Internet search results?

    d) Your company has a professional and standard website.

    e) Your company's web portal is constantly updated.

    f) Your company's web portal has an Internet sales system.

    4. Recognition and representation of company leadership by mass media. UP to 3 POINTS

    a) The mass media recognize your company's leadership (not sponsored)

    b) How would you rate your company's presence in your local mass media?

    c) Your company has invested in advertising through the mass media.

    5. Preference of consumers/users UP to 10 POINTS

    The Evaluation Committee will survey at least 10 people and ask them the preferences of, and/or awareness among, the consumers/users of your company and/or brand.

    6. Other opinion surveys and studies from specialized businesses UP to 3 POINTS

    We will take as reference other opinion studies (not older than one year) from specialized businesses regarding the preference/awareness among the consumers/users of your company and/or brand.

    B. Administrative Procedures

    1. Certifications of standards in Administrative Procedures UP to 3 POINTS

    a) Does your company's administrative procedures have any international quality accreditation?

    b) Are you in the process of obtaining an international quality accreditation for your company's administrative procedures?

    c) Your company does not have such accreditation and is not in the process of securing one, but your administrative systems are standardized.

    2. Certifications of standards in productive procedures UP to 3 POINTS

    a) Your productive procedures have at least one international quality accreditation.

    b) You are in the process of obtaining an international quality accreditation for your productive systems.

    c) Your company does not have such accreditation and is not in the process of securing one, but your productive systems are standardized (business process reengineering).

    3. Management Information Systems UP to 3 POINTS

    a) You have an integrated management information system that involves key areas of the company.

    b) You are in the process of implementing an integrated management information system that involves all key areas of the company.

    c) Your company's management information system is not integrated.

    4. Control and Audit Processes UP to 3 POINTS

    a) How often are your control and audit processes (external and internal) developed?

    b) Your internal control and audit processes are eventually developed.

    c) Your control and audit processes are not developed, but you have an internal control area.

    C. QUALITY IN GOODS AND/OR SERVICES

    1. Quality of products or services UP to 5 POINTS

    a) Your products or services have a local and/or international quality certification.

    b) You are in the process of obtaining a quality certification for your products or services.

    c) You do not have quality certifications, but your products or services have an accreditation.

    2. Outcome of product or service quality UP to 5 POINTS

    a) Your products or services are nationally and/or internationally recognized for their quality.

    b) Your products or services are recognized locally for their quality.

    3. Post-sales Services UP to 5 POINTS

    a) How would you rate your company's post-sales services?

    D. MANAGERIAL CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION

    Innovation involves changes that drive products or services to adapt better to market needs.

    - It eliminates factors that, by sheer complexity, increase cost and makes demand highly selective. Innovation also removes factors that the market considers risky or inappropriate.

    - It reduces factors that the market considers exaggerated, superfluous or distracting.

    - Innovation enhances product characteristics that attract new markets.

    - It creates or introduces new characteristics to serve target markets.

    1. Innovation and Technological Creativity UP to 3 POINTS

    a) Did you implement an important technological change in the past year?

    b) Do you plan to implement an important technological change in the near future?

    2. Innovation and Organizational Creativity UP to 3 POINTS

    a)Did you implement an important organizational change in the past year?

    b) Do you plan to implement an important organizational change in the near future?

    3. Innovation and Creativity in products or services UP to 3 POINTS

    a) Did you implement an important change in your products or services in the past year?

    b) Do you plan to implement an important change in your products or services?

    4. Innovation and Commercial Creativity UP to 3 POINTS

    a) Did you implement an important commercial change in the past year?

    b) Do you plan to implement an important commercial change?

    E. SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

    1. Business Ethics UP to 3 POINTS

    Your business social responsibility for this factor is

    2. Quality of employment UP to 3 POINTS

    Your business social responsibility for this factor is

    3. Environment UP to 3 POINTS

    Your business social responsibility for this factor is

    4. Commitment to Community UP to 3 POINTS

    Your business social responsibility for this factor is

    5. Marketing Responsibility UP to 3 POINTS

    Your business social responsibility for this factor is

    F. ACHIEVEMENTS AND RECOGNITIONS

    1. International UP to 7 POINTS

    Your company has obtained

    2. National UP to 5 POINTS

    Your company has obtained

    3. Local UP to 4 POINTS

    Your company has obtained