Eligibility
The TM Forum Excellence Awards are open to all TM Forum member companies in good standing who can meet the eligibility criteria in the award category of their choice.
Nominations Deadline
The deadline for nominations to all categories is Friday, January 29, 2010, 5PM U.S. Eastern time.
Entry Form Submission
Entries must be submitted online via the TM Forum Awards Web Site. Entries can only be accepted when submitted in the English language.
Entry Acknowledgement
Following electronic confirmation of receipt of the entry form you will receive a unique entry reference Please e-mail awards@tmforum.org if you have any questions concerning your entry.
Multiple Entries
You can submit as many different entries to as many categories as you would like.
Closing date
Complete entries must be received by the final deadline date. Nominations will not be accepted after the closing date of Friday 29 January 2010.
Additional Supporting Materials
In some circumstances, our judging panel may require further information to help understand if your entry meets the eligibility criteria, or to help with the judging process. We will contact you directly if any further information is required.
Judging Process
Entries will be judged on the basis of the information provided to the independent judging panel on the entry form.
For 2010, the following categories will be voted through a combination of open member voting and selection by our expert judges; TM Forum Leadership Award, TM Forum Innovation Award, TM Forum Solution Excellence Award. Entries agreed by the judging panel to meet the eligibility criteria below will be put to an open vote from the TM Forum’s service provider members comprising more than 200 global service providers.
Details of the judging panel meetings will not be disclosed. Information regarding the participating judges will not be released until the morning of the awards ceremony when the winners are announced during the opening keynote session.
No discussion will be entered into by the TM Forum or judging panel members regarding validation or qualification of entries.
Confidentiality
Entries will be treated as strictly confidential. Only details of the award winners and selected nominees in each category will be published.
Winners
The decision of the judges is final. No discussion will be entered into regarding the selection process or final decisions.
The finalists will be notified by April 6, 2010 and asked to ensure they have a senior representative attend to collect the award should they win.
Presentation of the awards will be made at the Acropolis Convention Center during the opening keynote session for the Management World conference, on the morning of Tuesday 18 May 2010.
Filmed highlights of the Awards will be shown during the TM Forum Managment World 2010 conference and on the Excellence Awards website.
Promotion
By entering the TM Forum Excellence Awards, companies are expressly authorizing the TM Forum to use the specific text and materials submitted for the purposes of promoting the awards program in TM Forum presentations, reports for publication, web site and media activities as well as all other forms of promotional/publicity materials, unless explicitly requested otherwise within the submission text.