MAY 21-24, 2006 NASHVILLE

Enabling Excellence Awards

The ‘Enabling Excellence’ awards were developed jointly by NACM and eCredit to recognize those individuals who have elevated the role credit and collections professionals play in an organization’s success. Celebrating excellence in credit and collections department operations, the ‘Enabling Excellence’ awards give you the chance to be recognized for your outstanding contributions, both qualitative and quantitative, to the accounts receivable management process.

As you consider nominating yourself, please think about what we mean by “enabling excellence.” Did you implement a successful credit policy that helped your organization make
smarter credit decisions? Implement a new scoring process to streamline and standardize credit decisions? Change your collections strategies to improve cash flow? Vastly improve a particular performance metric? Or partner with other departments and thus increase efficiencies and reduce conflict?

To enter, fill out a brief form and questionnaire to help the judges understand the challenge, what was set out to accomplish, and achievements in terms of cost savings and/or overall efficiencies.

YOU COULD WIN AN ALL EXPENSE PAID TRIP TO THE
2007 CREDIT CONGRESS & EXPOSITION IN LAS VEGAS

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

  • Only improvement projects started within the last two years and completed by the end of February 2006 will be considered.
  • Entries must be generated by the credit or collections department of the company.
  • Vendors may not nominate customers.
  • More than one individual per organization can be nominated.
  • There is no entry fee.

 

ENTRY DEADLINE MAY 1st 2006

To Enter

Simply fill out the company profile form (see page 4) with the appropriate contact information and complete the questionnaire. Applicants may submit more than one entry. There is no fee to enter. All entries are confidential. Completed entries should be sent to excellenceInCredit@nacm.org.

SUBMITTING ENTRIES

Electronic entries are preferred and should be sent to excellenceInCredit@nacm.org.

Finalist will be notified by May 10, 2006

For paper entries, please submit 2 copies of this form and the completed entry questions to:

National Association of Credit Management
Attn: Cara Crown
8840 Columbia 100 Parkway
Columbia, Maryland 21045
Or fax to (410) 740-5574

Entry Questionnaire:

The “enabling excellence” award will honor a credit professional who has gone above and beyond managing daily credit and collections processes to elevate the role their department plays in an organization’s success. Tell us how you have enabled excellence by answering the following questions in 200 words or less. Feel free to include any attachments, diagrams or graphics that support your entry, but total number of pages should not exceed 10. Electronic copies are preferred. Please e-mail forms back to excellenceInCredit@nacm.org by May 1st, 2006. Winners and finalists will be recognized on a national stage at the 2006 Credit Congress!

1. Describe the situation or problem that needed to be addressed. (200 words or less)
2. Describe your plan to remedy the problem, and please provide some context as why this solution was appropriate for your organization. (200 words or less)
3. Explain what targets were set as benchmarks for success and how you performed against them. (200 words or less)
4. Explain what targets were set as benchmarks for success, and how you performed against them (200 words or less)
5. Describe the major benefits of your changes. (200 words or less)

JUDGING CRITERIA:

A team of NACM and eCredit experts will judge. Judges will consider both quantitative and qualitative measure in determining winners. Key areas to showcase include how the improvements were made and what end results were achieved.

NACM and eCredit will announce the top three finalists for the 2nd Annual Enabling Excellence Awards 2006 on May 10th 2006. Winners will be announced at the NACM Credit Congress in Nashville but winners need not be present in order to accept their awards.

PRIZES:

Grand Prize Winner:

  • Full (4-day) registration fee to the 2007 Credit Congress & Exposition at Bally’s Las Vegas. Includes:
    • All Educational & General Sessions
    • Opening Party in the Expo Hall
    • Expo 2007, including a light lunch in the Expo Hall on Monday & Tuesday
    • Beer & Browse Reception (Monday evening in the Expo Hall)
    • Closing Night Party
  • Roundtrip airfare from anywhere in the continental United States to and from Las Vegas, NV
  • Hotel for the four nights of the conference

Sliver Winner:

  • 17” Flat Panel LCD TV

Bronze Winner:

  • Apple® iPod™ nano Digital Audio Player

MARKETING RIGHTS:

Applicants must consent to be interviewed by NACM and eCredit for clarification, questions, and judging purposes.

Applicants agree that all materials submitted will not be returned – please do not submit original or internal documents that you do not want published when submitting your application.

NACM and eCredit will have publishing rights to announce and showcase the winning application and runner-up applications at the NACM Credit Congress and in Business Credit Magazine.

All non-winning entries will be kept confidential.