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The Rare Bird Award

The Rare Bird award was established in 2004 and is given for distinguished contributions to best practices in the management of information development. The award is made to the manager or team who submits their best practice for consideration by the judges prior to the annual CIDM Best Practices Conference.

The Rare Bird Award recognizes the achievement of managers and their teams in developing a best practice that

demonstrates the ability of the organization to be innovative
increases the efficiency and productivity of the organization
provides a clear benefit to customers
has the ability to transform an organization from ordinary to extraordinary
can be effectively transferred to other organizations
demonstrates the leadership abilities of the organization to peers, management, and professional colleagues

We prefer that the managers submitting applications for the Rare Bird Award take an active role in the Best Practices annual conference through participation as a speaker or as a showcase or panel participant.

Rare Bird Award submission form:

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In the space provided below, please explain how your submission best meets the award criteria listed. Please provide examples and metrics for each category.
Efficiency—The best practice provides documentation and/or metrics that explain how the manager increased productivity, lowered costs, or offered other improvements for his/her company. This efficiency would be a best practice for most companies. Most publications managers would recognize the results as excellent forms of process improvement, content management, minimalism, customer focus, or outsourcing, and so on. *
Customer Focus—The best practice features improved methods or processes to incorporate customer needs in the information development process. There is clear evidence that customer input was used in the early design and development stages. *
Transferability—The processes shown in this best practice could be transferred directly or with some modifications to other publications organizations. If adopted, the work has a high probability of offering similar improvements at the transfer site. *
Innovation—The best practice offers unique approaches to traditional elements of information management, new processes, methods, or technologies that facilitate improvements in the way information management groups work within their company, with customers, or in the delivery of their products. The innovation should be measurable in business terms, such as reduced customer support calls, faster time to market, increased technical accuracy, easy access to concise information, and so on. *
Transformational Value—The best practice is an example of creative thinking that takes information management to a higher level. Comments from company management or management peers about the change value of the effort would document its transformational value. *
Leadership—The best practice subject matter, process, or results require outstanding leadership from the publications manager or team. For example, the manager or team changed the way work was done in the past, reallocated resources, reorganized for better results, solicited upper management support to bring in a content management system, teamed with customer support for better customer experiences, managed a corporate initiative, and so on. *
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