The Grand Prize (ispim) - Recognizing excellence in innovation management

Innovation management really matters, because great products, services and initiatives are the result. The “ISPIM Grand Prize” is open to companies and not-for-profit organizations who can demonstrate a sustained commitment to innovation and significant improvement in their innovation performance.

How to enter?

If you believe your initiative has made a difference to the management of innovation, we'd love to hear about it. We don't want extensive spreadsheets or novels with great detail; we just need to understand the key messages about the challenges you faced, how you overcame them and what the results were.

Submissions can be made online at www.surveymonkey.com/r/ISPIMGP2018 by 27th April 2018.

Each submission should be for one innovation initiative, but there is nothing to stop the same organization submitting several entries for different initiatives. All submissions will then be evaluated by ISPIM’s team of innovation leaders who will select the three finalists. All finalists will be invited to compete for the prize during the 2018 ISPIM Innovation Conference in Stockholm on 18th June 2018. During this session, they will each have to present to an audience of over 400 innovation experts who will also be invited to ask questions before voting for the winner. Entrants who impress the judges but don’t quite make the final three will be invited to present at the Conference in a special industry track.

Important Dates:

• Submission deadline: 27th April 2018

• Three Finalists announced: 11th May 2018

•Grand Final: 18th June 2018 in Stockholm at the ISPIM Innovation Conference in a “Dolphin Tank” setting (similar to a “shark tank” but a more friendly and collaborative environment)

For more information, or if you have any questions, please contact Iain Bitran - bitran@ispim.org