Operations & Technology
Conference & Exhibition
May 21-23, 2008
Westin Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL
2008 Operations & Technology Excellence Award
- Spotlight on Operations!
- Prestige and Recognition
- Award Application Deadline
- Eligibility, Judging Panel, Other Details/Requirements
- Download Award Application
Enter your company's strategic system or business process improvement project, your best practices or unique methodologies for Award consideration!
Spotlight on Operations!
In an environment where equipment financing has become a commodity, the differences between highly successful organizations and those that simply survive are often operational creativity, customer centricity, and innovative, efficient business processes. The winners make effective use of technology and constantly hone their "backroom" performance to better serve their customers and ensure that value is delivered for every dollar invested.
The Operations & Technology Excellence (OT&E) Award Program identifies and recognizes equipment leasing and finance companies that have demonstrated best practices in developing and implementing innovative uses of technology or creative business processes to improve operations, enhance customer interactions, enter new markets and build overall ROI. We want to bring the backroom to the fore, highlighting the best in the industry to provide an example for others.
Prestige and Recognition
This year's OT&E Award will be presented at the 2008 Operations and Technology Conference, May 21 - 23 at the Westin Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. The Judging Panel (O&TE Award Subcommittee) will review all entries prior to the conference and select two winners, who will:
- Present their solutions at the conference as part of a Best Practices Showcase
- Receive industry-wide recognition on the ELFA website, in ELT Magazine and ELFA's E-News Daily Newsletter
- Be recognized at the 2008 ELFA Annual Convention
You've worked hard to improve your company's operations. Get the recognition your team deserves. Enter today!
Award Application Deadline
Nominations must be received no later than Midnight Eastern Time, Monday, April 7th, 2008. Nominations should be submitted via email only to Racquel Codling at rcodling@elfaonline.org with MS Office compatible attachments.
Eligibility, Judging Panel, Other Details/Requirements
- To qualify for consideration, nominees can be self-nominated or nominated by others.
- The recognition is provided by project or initiative. Therefore, multiple submissions from the same organization are acceptable.
- Joint submissions (i.e. vendor and lessor) are acceptable.
- Nominees can be either regular member firms or associate member firms, but they must be members of the ELFA.
- The top 2 winners will be notified by April 18th, and must be willing to make a presentation about their winning initiative(s) at the conference. Therefore, the winners must have at least one representative attend the conference.
- The O&T Planning Committee has assembled an award subcommittee of four judges to identify the projects that will be eligible to receive an award. The O&TE Award Subcommittee is made up of the following:
- Joan Simpson, Cisco Systems Capital Corporation
(O&TE Award Committee Chair) - Deborah Reuben, Industry Consultant
- John Hurt, Industry Consultant
- Cheryl Behan, BTMU Capital Corporation
- Joan Simpson, Cisco Systems Capital Corporation