Reach for the stars The clock is ticking to get your entries in for our 2022 awards its time to celebrate your achievements The Asset Management Excellence Awards acknowledge and celebrate the outstanding work done by asset management professionals, organisations, and teams across the world. Commitment, quality, and foresight are vital to the success of asset management along with innovation, adaptation, and social awareness. These awards are an opportunity for you to showcase the excellent work youre doing, wherever you are and in whichever industry sector you operate. By submitting your leading examples of good asset management practice, its a chance for you to celebrate your successes and share them with a wider network across the professional landscape. Proudly run by Award Categories McKeown Award for Individual Achievement For an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of asset management, and/or the IAM. Advancement will be judged by the benefit to society and the wider asset management community, particularly by improving widespread awareness and understanding of the increased adoption of asset management philosophy. This award is named to honour the many years of commitment that David McKeown, one of the IAMs founder members and our Honorary Vice President, has given to the Institute. Eason Award for Digital Innovation This award was previously known as Digital Innovator Award and has been renamed in honour of Norman Eason who died in February 2022. Norman was the founding President of the Institute of Asset Management and a digital innovator. At a time when each computer had its own software structure, Norman had a vision of running software on any hardware owned by a client. This was more than 10 years before the introduction of Windows! His innovation was central to the RAPIER software system. He collaborated with Oracle on driving sales across a wide range of industries. It is his innovation that drove his work with the IAM and this award recognises his contribution to our profession. Corporate Transformation Award This award recognises the corporate journey, the progression of an organisation in achieving asset management maturity, and the excellence displayed by organisations to progress their asset management competence. Winning the 2021 NxtGen Award was a great honour. Being recognised for personal progress as well as supporting others in our industry to develop their asset management knowledge was a fantastic way to round off the year. Binal Patel, Copperleaf, NxtGen Award Winner 2021 Team Achievement Award This award honours an operational team or department that has made a significant contribution to its organisation or the asset management knowledge base. Each team consists of people from across the organisation, or from other organisations, reflecting that this was a collaborative effort. NxtGen Award This award is for an individual new to asset management who can demonstrate personal progress in understanding the discipline and using that knowledge to inspire and support others to do the same. Make your submission today Terms and conditions The awards are open to entries from individuals or organisations involved in the profession of asset management, at any level of asset management maturity. We accept and encourage submissions from any region and in any business sector: asset management is a practice that can be applied to a huge variety of industries, and we want to see and share as many of them as possible! Each award category has its own submission information, but all entries are subject to the following: Submissions must relate to activity and initiatives that have occurred in the past 12-18 months. Submissions should be made in English; however, if this is a serious barrier, please contact the IAM office. Submissions must align fully to, and meet, the criteria and describe the notable achievements as well as providing the key data and physical evidence that verifies the successes described. You can enter as many categories as you like, but each submission must be submitted individually and contain specific information that meets the award category description. Submissions must not exceed the word limits stated on the form. You can include links in the text, and have the option to upload supporting documents (PDFs, videos etc), although this is not mandatory and being for reference or context, will not be judged in its own right as a part of your submission. Please send in your submissions by Friday 19 August 2022. We cant wait to see your submissions, and to be able to share and celebrate the work youve been doing. Learn more about the awards event and how to book a ticket Guidelines Relevant contributions include examples such as: Explicitly increased recognition of the value of our philosophy, perhaps by an important professional body of new sector for example, government(s) Significant additions to the asset management knowledge base (not only the IAMs) Helping to separate the integrating approach of true asset management from managing the assets or the mistaken assumption that this is engineering Spreading our thinking into business schools and education generally Converging thinking worldwide to enhance credibility of asset management, particularly in the long term, recognising its value as more than financial and so forth. Your submission must focus on your personal activities and achievements during the past 12-18 months. You must describe and evidence your personal contribution for which you wish to be recognised, where the achievement has been accomplished with others. Your submission for this award may acknowledge, but must not depend upon others; in other words, the leadership and/ or work should be your own. Guidelines our submission must explain how the advancement Y achieved would not have been possible, or as successful, without the use of new digital technologies. The initiative must align with good asset management principles in relation to the decision to use a digital solution. Your submission should focus on how you adapted your processes or operations to include new technologies and advancements in digital capabilities. Your submission should focus on demonstrating how you addressed competitive, digital business, and/or consumer trends. Guidelines ny organisational effort towards the corporate journey, A regardless of the asset management maturity, is considered in this award. You must describe and evidence how the outcome from these initiatives has advanced your organisations contribution to internal and external stakeholders. Your submission must detail the nature of your achievement in relation to the overall corporate journey of the organisation regardless of the level of asset management maturity involved. The winner from this category at the IAM North American Awards 2022 will automatically be shortlisted into this category at the global Asset Management Excellence Awards 2022. Guidelines our submission must focus on how teamwork was central Y to the success of the project or initiative, and the collaborative working involved. You should evidence the impact that the project or initiative has had on the organisation or the asset management knowledge base. Your submission should include a description of the different skill sets and people within the team and how they were utilised to produce a positive outcome for the organisation or advance the asset management knowledge base. Guidelines ou must have either started your career or moved into the Y field of asset management within the past two years. Your submission must focus on the reasons why you chose to join the asset management profession and the steps you have taken to progress your understanding and development in this field. Your submission must also include how you have used your new knowledge and experience to inspire others to follow a similar path. If you have submitted an entry for the NxtGen Award for the IAM North American Awards, please do not submit an entry to the Asset Management Excellence Awards. The North American Awards winner will be shortlisted for the global Asset Management Excellence Awards. Submit today: theIAM.org/Awards
