2010 ICMA Innovation Award | Report The 2010 ICMA Innovation Award and its related documents have been produced and handled for ICMA by Vaibmu Ltd., a consulting and portfolio development company.
[email protected] | www.vaibmu.com “Our company will definitely win the award. We never managed to enter the printed classifieds market in the first place, now we have nothing to lose” - COO, Publishing Company Vaibmu | Consulting & Portfolio Development Company | Helsinki, Finland ! - 2 - In this document we present the details of the Top Foreword 10 submissions which came from six countries (Czech Republic, Finland, Spain, Turkey, United The original idea of the ICMA Innovation Award Kingdom and the United States of America). was born after the ICMA General Meeting held in November 2009 in Budapest. There, a vice- president of Marketing from a large publisher asked Innovation in Brief during a dinner conversation: “who are the innovative companies in the classified industry?” As there was no clear answer, it seemed better to let Definition of Innovation the industry players answer this together: thus, an Wikipedia is an innovation itself, so it is the right award was born. place to search for a broad definition of innovation: This first edition of the award is born from the Innovation is a new way of doing something or cooperation between ICMA and Vaibmu Ltd, a “new stuff that is made useful”. It may refer to Helsinki based consulting and portfolio incremental and emergent or radical and development company. Together, two goals were revolutionary changes in thinking, products, 1 set for the award: processes, or organizations .