Making Awards Program Management Simple and Easy
Dan Gable, an American athlete, said, “Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts”.
The Essence of Awards
The word ‘awards’ evokes many pleasant thoughts in people’s minds. Awards are an integral part of any culture – recognition of achievements, excellence, innovation, hard work, and success. In a hyper-connected and competitive world, they mean different things to different people. For a business, it is about building a brand, impressing new customers, attracting new talent, associating with an industry leader or positioning in the thought leadership league. Even governments and regulatory bodies recognize awards as a means to reward individuals and businesses who impact society positively and encourage and promote excellence.
The rationale behind the awards is wide ranging and the selection methodologies are varied. Be it the much publicized Oscar awards or the awards presented by organizations to their employees, the process is complex and presents several challenges. These include identifying the right recipients, sharing information with the target audience, facilitating the submission process, avoiding errors in the evaluation process, and enhancing the efficiency of the judging process. Since the awards process evokes a personal and emotional response in addition to just being a business decision, it needs to be simple and easy to manage.
Simplifying the Awards Process: The Judgify Way
Realizing how tedious, time consuming and expensive an awards management program is, we decided to change the game by building Judgify – a platform to ease the pains of a niche industry. With over six years of experience working with awards organizers, we know exactly where the challenges and pitfalls lie.
Judgify is a cloud-based comprehensive solution for award organizers to simplify and streamline their processes. It gives our customers a smarter way to handle the awards process. We have built customized web applications that enable organizers to address the challenges in the awards management process. We already have a set of very happy customers and look forward to adding more such delighted customers. We are now looking to draw upon the success of our early access mode and open to everyone.
Our end-to-end online awards platform provides the following key benefits to the awards organizers:
- Efficiently initiate the submission process by setting up categories and awards criteria, selecting and assigning judges, and tracking entry submission forms
- Provide easy access to all the stakeholders to ensure smooth process flow
- Collect, view, track and organize submissions for easy filtering
- Collate and calculate scores, and generate reports as per requirements
The platform also offers value adding features such as automated awards scoring that help save time and improve productivity and intuitive dashboards that simplify detail oriented processes. Since Judgify is on the cloud, it effectively facilitates round the clock entry submissions.
Simple Steps to Get Started
Here are four simple steps to simplify the awards process:
Step 1 – Plan and publish
Determine your award rules and set up award categories, submission requirements, and payment mode
Step 2 – Collect submissions
Collect your awards submissions, view and track awards’ order payments and easily filter entrants
Step 3 – Judge anytime, anywhere
Determine your judging criteria, assign judges to specific award categories, set up abstention rules, and allow judges to enter the scores anytime, anywhere
Step 4 – Leverage automated scoring and reporting
Automatically tabulate the scores and customize your financial, submission or scoring report based on the desired filters
And you are done! With a simplified and smart process in place, you can now enjoy the show!
The Way Forward
Our experience over the past six years has helped us garner many insights into the awards organizers’ business. We intend to convert these insights into business benefits for you through Judgify. As a first in the industry, we offer the service as ‘Free for Free Awards’. Our team is enthusiastic, dedicated and highly talented. Partner with us to make your business simpler and easier!