Middle East Start Up of the Year Award
| The Start-Up of the Year award recognizes the new Middle East-based business that has demonstrated excellence in its industry sector – either through its innovative products or services, its evident business growth, its market competitiveness, or its local and regional impact
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- The nominee should have shown the greatest development over the last year based on growth, innovation and impact with the product/service.
- The nominee should have demonstrated how it has created and is delivering its company vision and mission.
- The Nominee should have introduced the latest management processes.
- The Nominee should have demonstrated a willingness to employ latest technology and modern management processes whenever possible to enhance and improve organization’s operations.
- Nominee should have raised capital to support the growth of their organizations.
- Nominee should have developed information and communications technology as a strategic tool within their organizations.
- Nominee should be able to analyze trends and launch new initiatives when appropriate.
- Nominee should have exhibited exemplary leadership that inspires and motivates others.
- The nominee should have demonstrated adoption of strategies and leadership skills and application of modern management systems in the organization.
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Middle East Start Up Global Entrepreneurship Award
| The award recognizes individuals who champion broad and large-scale efforts that have a positive impact on a regional ecosystem and work to advance new and young firm formation – either in their locally or regionally.
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- The nominee should have demonstrated achievements in creating an ideal business environment that facilitates creation of projects, and supports the growth regionally and globally
- The nominee should have demonstrated excellence in how it has created and is delivering its company vision and mission.
- The nominee should have demonstrated clarity in the identification of the
- The nominees’ organization should have displayed noticeable improvement in terms of retaining and attracting executive talent as a result of the management development efforts, programs and strategies.
- The nominees’ organizations should have displayed noticeable improvement in terms of employee performance / productivity as a result of the management development efforts, programs and strategies.
- The nominee’s Management Development Programs and activities should be aligned to complement the organization’s overall business objectives.
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Middle East Investor of the Year Award
| The Middle East Investor of the Year Award seeks to recognize investors in strategic areas of importance to the region. The awards serve not only to laud those who, in spite of a challenging economic environment have continued to lend vital support to both burgeoning and established industries in the Middle East region, but also encourages other investors to do the same.
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- The nominee should have successfully implemented and commissioned licensed operational business projects within a given time period.
- The nominee should have demonstrated contribution to in regional economic growth and their contributions include the creation of job opportunities, adherence to high standards of corporate social responsibility, notable monetary spending and significant fiscal support to economies through the payment of corporate taxes.
- Nominee should have demonstrated the ability to come up with solutions and services that meet the changing needs of the customers, products and services, boosting customer care and retention.
- Nominee should have deployed new and effective strategies to attract investments and raise capital.
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Incubator/Accelerator of the Year Award
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- The nominee should have developed global ecosystem that empowers entrepreneurs to bring new technologies to market wherever they choose to live.
- The nominee should have provided a combination of services for online and mobile start-ups, including mentorship, funding, networking and training.
- The nominee should have developed unique program for cutting-edge entrepreneurs for creating solutions to the global challenges of tomorrow.
- The nominee should have facilitated partnerships between forward-thinking entrepreneurs and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of strategic sectors
- The nominee should have demonstrated support to entrepreneurs and early stage businesses to develop their business plans and also provide ongoing expertise, support and mentoring to help businesses succeed.
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Middle East SME Leader of the Year Award
| The award honours individuals and organisations who have contributed to developing SME performance in the Middle East region. It recognises the young business leader that has most effectively shaped their business’s success and delivered outstanding growth and development.
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- The nominee should have exhibited entrepreneurial spirit and must be originated from small and medium businesses.
- The nominee achievements must be impressive enough to inspire the aspirations of thousands of SME entrepreneurs who are looking for a role model to emulate, especially as a CEO or Managing Director of a listed company.
- The nominee should have displayed great potential to become successful players in local and international marketplace.
- The nominee should have demonstrated effective and progressive employment practices, including adoption of progressive HR policies, e.g. recruitment, retention, learning and development, reward, work-life balance, and commitment to promote betterment of employees.
- The nominee should have successfully created a strong and positive image for their branding initiatives on the company, product and/or services.
- The nominee exemplifies the qualities of effective leadership, innovatively applied know-how, and excellent potential for growth shows a high level of social, cultural, and environmental awareness and has demonstrated commitment to the wider community; and engages in continuous learning or other improvement opportunities designed to advance the economic, social, and environmental prospects of the enterprise.
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Middle East SME of the Year Award
| The ‘Middle East SME of the Year Award‘ is to recognize the SME business that have shown excellent in maintaining consistent growth and strong financial performance.Ithave been proventhat how the business has put in place the foundations and strong plan for future growth.
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- The nominee should have demonstrated outstanding initiative, boldness and imagination in the enterprise, as well as sound management practices.
- The nominee will be expected to demonstrate sustainable growth combined with a degree of commercial success that is exceptional for the size of the business
- The nominee should have demonstrated how the business concept, services and products have been developed
- The nominee should have demonstrated how the business is developing its employees,future growth plan and the leadership of the business.
- The nomineeshould have demonstrated how it has created and is delivering its company vision and mission.
- The nominee should show how the business positively impacts local society, the environment or the economy.
- The nominee should have demonstrated how the sustainable business has improved customer perception, staff engagement and commercial performance
- The nominee must show how they have been successful in delivering key goals, competitor advantage, growth and innovation.
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Middle East SME Bank of the Year Award
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- The nominees’ core businesses should have demonstrated robustness of operations in the face of current macroeconomic challenges
- The nominee should have demonstrated efforts to make banking services more accessible to small businesses, as evidenced by its growing SME business and customer base.
- The nominee should have demonstrated establishment of significant and highly developmental SME retail portfolio through its core strategy of availability, affordability and access
- The nominee should have addressed SME customers’ working capital needs with quick turnaround times and flexible criteria for eligibility contributing to the doubling of sales of the product through the year
- The nominee should have found new and innovative ways to deliver the best experience for our SME customers and support the development of the regional economy.
- The nominee should have demonstrated empowerment of SMEs and improved their access to financing by offering alternative ways of securing credit.
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Middle East Investor of the Year Award
| The Middle East Investor of the Year Award seeks to recognize investors in strategic areas of importance to the region. The awards serve not only to laud those who, in spite of a challenging economic environment have continued to lend vital support to both burgeoning and established industries in the Middle East region, but also encourages other investors to do the same.
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- The nominee should have successfully implemented and commissioned licensed operational business projects within a given time period.
- The nominee should have demonstrated contribution to in regional economic growth and their contributions include the creation of job opportunities, adherence to high standards of corporate social responsibility, notable monetary spending and significant fiscal support to economies through the payment of corporate taxes.
- Nominee should have demonstrated the ability to come up with solutions and services that meet the changing needs of the customers, products and services, boosting customer care and retention.
- Nominee should have deployed new and effective strategies to attract investments and raise capital.
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Middle East Digital/Online Start Up Award
| The award recognize the most innovative digital start-ups in the Middle east region
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- The nominee should have unleashed breakthrough Ideas, Innovations and Insights needed to disrupt the social, economic and tech ecosystem.
- The nominee should be an entrepreneurial engine clearly driving the success of the start-up through innovation, hard-work and self-confidence.
- The nominee should have demonstrated innovation, change and unleashed technology and ideas into the workplace and community.
- The nominee should have provided users with the necessary tools to run an online business, accept payments and connect them with millions of potential customers.
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Middle East Tech Start Up Award
| The award recognize the most innovative digital start-ups in the Middle East region
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- The nominee should have demonstrated commitment towards the growth and innovation and have an outstanding user experience
- The nominee should have demonstrated potential for tremendous growth in their user base
- The nominee should have operated in the context of a sustainable business mode
- The nominee should have demonstrated expertise in handling complex situations & providing appropriate solutions to enhance success in their endeavors
- The nominee should be a role model for others in creating & promoting supportive learning environments in the field of ICT
- Nominees should have demonstrated the capacity to clearly articulate ICT in education through their vision
- The nominee should have demonstrated how it has created and is delivering its company vision and mission.
- The Nominee should have introduced the latest management processes.
- The Nominee should have demonstrated a willingness to employ latest technology and modern management processes whenever possible to enhance and improve organization’s operations.
- Nominee should have raised capital to support the growth of their organizations.
- Nominee should have developed information and communications technology as a strategic tool within their organizations.
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Middle East Product & Manufacturing Start Up Award
| The award recognizes a Start Up that has been exceptional in the production of innovative products in the Middle East region.
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- The nominee demonstrates commitment to growth, innovation and product development which has lead innovation strategies and new technologies to gain a competitive advantage.
- The nominee should have developed unique approaches to traditional elements of information management, new processes, methods, or technologies that facilitate improvements within their company, with customers, or in the delivery of their products.
- The nominee should have displayed great potential to become successful players in local and international marketplace.
- The nominee should have found new and innovative ways to deliver the best products and support the development of the regional economy.
- The nominee should have successfully created a strong and positive image for their branding initiatives on the company, product and/or services.
- The nominee should have demonstrated how it has created and is delivering its company vision and mission.
- The Nominee should have introduced the latest management processes.
- The Nominee should have demonstrated a willingness to employ latest technology and modern management processes whenever possible to enhance and improve organization’s operations.
- Nominee should have raised capital to support the growth of their organizations.
- Nominee should have developed information and communications technology as a strategic tool within their organizations.
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