Announcing the Top 3 Winners of the North America & Europe Best Practice Competition 2014

Alibaba.com congratulates the top 3 winners of the North America & Europe Best Practice Competition 2014. The winners are selected from 15 entries, by both online voting and the internal judging panel.

The Winners are :

The North America & Europe Best Practice Competition 2014 encourages Alibaba.com members to share their best operational, managerial, trading tips, e-commerce skills and learn from the others' experiences at the same time.

It also provides an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of members that have been responsible for creating and/or managing the introduction and deployment of these best practices. We are glad to see that participants have been highly passionate in this competition.

We are going to send out invitations to the top 3 winners so that they can share their best practices on our online training platform via video. This will enable them to showcase their companies. All of Alibaba.com’s members will be able to see these videos.

Please join us in congratulating the winners. We look forward to seeing more great participants in the next competition!

Once again, Alibaba.com sincerely thanks all entrants for their valuable effort to share their stories in the Asia Best Practice Competition 2014.

Every company has its strengths
What are your company's strengths?

The 2014 North America & Europe Best Practice Competition provides an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of individuals and teams who are responsible for creating and/or managing the introduction and deployment of best practices in their respective companies.

As an e-commerce professional, you are cordially invited to share your best operational and managerial practices, e-commerce experiences, trading skills, and any other initiatives that you have used within your company. You will also have a chance to learn from other successful professionals as well.

Benefits of Participating

To help you to identify what you do well and then enable individuals and teams to obtain recognition for their outstanding work.

To create a high level of motivation and enthusiasm by encouraging staff to review work practices and whether they are at a best practice level.

To obtain feedback on how your company's practice can be improved and sustained.

To develop a forward-thinking culture in your company to continuously pursues best practices.

To build awareness of your company's innovation and effective work practices.

ROUND 1: DOCUMENT YOUR BEST PRACTICE

Please submit your entry to the North America & Europe Best Practice Competition by 6:00pm on December 18, 2014. You will receive a notification on whether your entry has qualified for round 2 of online voting by January 5, 2015.

20 entries that qualify will be published at our Forum for 'Online Voting' from November December 19, 2014. At the same time, these entries will be awarded with an e-Certification of Appreciation..

If you have any questions please email: event@member.alibaba.com

Complete the Entry Form to enter the North America & Europe Best Practice Competition
Describe your best practice - this best practice may relate to a managerial/operational practices, e-commerce experiences/trading skills or any other initiatives within your company.

Here are a few examples of best practices that you may find useful:

ROUND 1: DOCUMENT YOUR BEST PRACTICE

1. Describe the Best Practice (Min 200 characters including spaces)

Is it an operational or managerial practice? E-commerce experience? Trading skills or any other new initiative? How was it designed and implemented? How important is it to your company? How many staff members and/or buyers does it affect?

2. Level of deployment (Min 200 characters including spaces)

Is the practice used throughout your whole company or just for some departments? How well is it understood and applied by the relevant staff members? How long has it been deployed?

3. Innovation (Min 200 characters including spaces)

What is innovative about this practice? Is it a new practice? Is it a practice that you gradually improved over time? Or is it an idea or practice that you adapted from another company or department?

4. Best Practice performance (Min 200 characters including spaces)

Describe the non-financial benefits. For example, increased motivation or satisfaction, reduced staff turnover, greater productivity, less complaints) and the financial benefits if available (e.g. the amount of money saved, the percentage increase in revenue etc.) that have resulted from implementing the practice.

5. Best Practice evidence (Min 200 characters including spaces)

Has the practice been validated as the ideal 'Best' practice? For example, was it adapted from another company? Have you compared the practice and its performance against this company? Have you received any recognition or award for the practice? And do you believe it is a good/best practice based on your own experience?

6. Review/next steps planned (Min 200 characters including spaces)

How will the best practice be sustained or evolve in the future? Please describe what are your plans for making sure that the best practices are correctly used by all your employees in the future.