NEOSA/Crains Cleveland Area Knowledge Industry Awards
2003 Official Nomination Guidelines

Thank you for your decision to participate in the 5th annual Cleveland Area Knowledge Industry Awards sponsored by NEOSA and Crain's Cleveland Business. This event has been established to recognize excellence in the region's Knowledge Industry.

You do not have to be a member of NEOSA to enter or to win. All Northeast Ohio based companies are eligible for consideration.

Companies (or their business units or divisions) located in Northeast Ohio will be judged and receive awards for the following eight categories of excellence:

1. Knowledge Industry Company of the Year
2. Most Promising New IT Company
3. Best World Wide Website
4. Best IT Training Program
5. Best IT Internship Program
6. Best Software Product
7. Best IT Implementation Award *(Non-IT Company with > 20 employees)
8. Best IT Implementation Award *(Non-IT Company with < 20 employees)

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All information submitted is confidential and will not be reviewed by anyone other than the Judges. There will be no site visits or third party review of any internal information. Judges are independent professionals in the knowledge industry and related fields.

Nominee companies must be locally based and should be a going concern with at least one product that is commercially available and installed past the beta stage. Nominee companies may be divisions of larger companies, however all requirements relate to the entrant's division only, not its parent company. Nominations for the Best World Wide Website must either represent a local company’s website or a website for a non-local company that was locally developed.

The schedule for the launching, application, and decision process will be as follows:

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