Winners were announced today in the 2018 People’s Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite Companies, a feature of The International Business Awards®, the world’s only international, all-encompassing business awards program which is now in its 15^th year.

The worldwide public vote was conducted this summer, with the highest number of votes deciding the winners in a variety of industries. More than 22,000 votes were cast. All Stevie Award winners in the Company of the Year categories of this year’s International Business Awards were eligible to be included in voting for the People’s Choice Stevie Awards.

The crystal People’s Choice Stevie Awards will be presented to winners at The International Business Awards banquet on Saturday, 20 October at the InterContinental London Park Lane Hotel.

Tickets for the event are now on sale. The winners of peer-adjudicated gold, silver, and bronze Stevie Awards will be presented with their awards along with the People’s Choice Stevie Awards. Stevie winners were selected from more than 3,900 nominations received from organizations and individuals in 74 nations.

The winners of the 2018 People’s Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite Companies are:

- Business/Professional Services: TELUS International
- Computer Software: Accedia JSC
- Diversified Services: Glance Technologies
- Entertainment/Internet/Media: DRF Deutschland Fernsehen Produktions GmbH & Co. KG
- Financial/Insurance: Cebuana Lhuillier
- Manufacturing: Makers Nutrition
- Other: College Works Painting
- Real Estate: Stockdale & Leggo
- Telecommunications: Azercell Telecom LLC
- Transportation: Egypt Express

Over one trillion dollars are spent annually on technology and IT services. Three software engineers went against the fastest-growing technology corporations in the world, like Google and Adobe Systems, and succeeded in claiming their piece of the global tech pie.

Druva CEO and founder, Jaspreet Singh, anticipated the software management shift into the cloud, and developed cloud-based programming to organize, centralize, and protect information for businesses. Singh even pitched Druva’s cloud-based solution to NASA, who refused it at first because they did not believe software management would move to the cloud. But, Singh was right. Druva became a first mover in a cutthroat industry, and its information software solutions propelled the company into the global market in less than 10 years.

In Pune, India in 2008, Singh and two other engineers started Druva. The company provides data management and security service solutions for businesses. While many new businesses flounder in their initial months, this team grew to an impressive seven employees and 53 clients by the end of their first year.

Since its inception, Druva has worked to connect and to protect business data on servers and drives accessed from multiple mobile access points, such as smartphones and laptops, by employees on the move.

Druva worked to stay ahead of the technology innovation curve and became one of the first providers of cloud-based data management and security software. The software helps aggregate data, then unifies the backup, disaster recovery, archival, and governance capabilities onto a single, optimized data set.

It may sound complicated, but Druva simplifies a common business conundrum: Who has the information to complete the task, and how does the responsible employee access it? Placing servers, backups, and archives in the cloud means all data is in one place. Access is simple, trackable, and transparent, and information is readily accessible and visible to employees but protected from bad actors in the cyber landscape.

Having the information in one location and limiting and restricting access makes the data easier to protect and to preserve. By reducing risk and simplifying processes, most businesses experience a great cost savings.

Druva’s cloud management includes security-based data mining and other information governance options. This is useful, for example, when seeking archived legal records. With this increasing shift to the cloud, however, there has been a shift in responsibility.

“In the past, the security of the software after it was sold wasn’t our problem. If something broke or someone hacked into it, that was the customer’s problem,” Singh told TechinAsia.com. “In the cloud, everything is your problem. You even have to predict a failure from the customer’s side because now you have part ownership of the data. All these nuances led to an interesting new model.”

Excellence and innovation in customer service are part of that new model and solution. Druva received seven Stevie^® Awards in the 2018 Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service for their excellence and innovation in customer service in the Technology and Computer Software Industry categories.

• Gold Stevie Winner: Customer Service Leader of the Year—Computer Software Industry
• Silver Stevie Winner: Front-Line Customer Service Team of the Year—Technology Industries—Computer Hardware & Software—100 or More Employees
• Silver Stevie Winner: Contact Center of the Year (Up to 100 Seats)—Technology Industries
• Silver Stevie Winner: Best Use of Technology in Customer Service—Computer Industries
• Silver Stevie Winner: Customer Service Department of the Year—Computer Software—100 or More Employees
• Bronze Stevie Winner: Customer Service Management Team of the Year
• Bronze Stevie Winner: Award for Innovation in Customer Service—Computer Industries

Druva now services more than 4,000 diverse companies, both domestic and international. This includes major corporations and agencies, such as NASA, General Electric, Marriott Hotels, AIG, Deloitte, Pfizer, Black & Decker, McAfee, Live Nation, and Hulu. They are headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States, and employ 400 team members across the world. They currently have offices in Germany, United Kingdom, Singapore, Japan, and India. Through hard work and dedication, the small start-up from Pune, India, has now become a global leader in cloud data protection and management.

As the technology industry races onward, a resilient business model and a flexible customer service team are imperative to success. In all they do, Druva highlights their core values: to embrace hard work, to strive for consistent performance, to work as a team, to collaborate to innovate, and to work with a customer-first attitude.

“The entire Druva team is energized to be part of winning groups,” says Druva employee Sunil Wadhwa.

Winners in the 2018 Stevie® Awards for Great Employers, an international competition, will be announced on Friday, September 21 during a gala event in New York City. The awards recognize the world’s best employers and the human resources professionals, teams, achievements and HR-related products and suppliers who help to create and drive great places to work.  A complete list of Stevie Award finalists by category is available at www.StevieAwards.com/HR. 

Download the event's program book here.

Here are the organizations that have already purchased their tickets for the event.

AB Tasty

Accedia

ACV Auctions

Allianz Partners

Al Jazeera Media Network

Angel MedFlight

AstraZeneca/MedImmune

Belatrix Software

BenefitMall

Brillio

BTS USA, Inc.

CareerArc

Cisco

Citizens Bank

Clearlink

Concentrix

Curate Mobile LTD

Daimler AG

Dell EMC Education Services

Deutsche Telekom Services Europe

DreamHost

ej4

Etech Global Services

Follett Corporation

The Fresh Market

Georgia Swarm Pro Lacrosse

Globe Telecom, Inc.

The Grindhouse Radio

HALO Recognition

HUGO BOSS TEXTILE INDUSTRIES LTD

Insperity

Interactive Services

Johannesbad Hotels Bad Füssing GmbH

Larsen & Toubro Infotech Limited (LTI)

MicroHealth LLC

Migros T.A.S.

Ministry of Youth and Sport Affairs - Bahrain

National Environment Agency (Singapore)

NAVICOR

Outreach Process Partners, LLC

PSI Services

Rackspace

RB

Recognize Services Inc

Rumelisiad

sahibinden.com

SAP

Saudi Aramco

Scaffidi Restaurant Group

Smile Brands

SoFi

Swiss Re

Symphony Talent

Tagline Group of Companies

TalentGuard

Tata Consultancy Services

TELUS

TransUnion

TrustHCS

Truth Initiative

Union Bank of the Philippines

uniquelyHR

Workiva Inc.

ZPower LLC

전 세계 모든 여성 기업인, 경영자와 직원 출품 가능

세계 최고의 비즈니스 대상 프로그램들을 주최하는 스티비 어워즈가 9월 28일(금) 최종 마감일까지 2018 (제15회 연례) 여성기업인 스티비대상의 출품작을 받고 있다. 대상과 관련한 출품요강 및 상세 내용은 웹사이트(http://www.StevieAwards.com/Women)에서 볼 수 있다.

여성 기업인 스티비 대상은 명망 있는 미국 비즈니스 대상®과 국제 비즈니스 대상® 창시자들에 의해 운영되고 있다. 

여성기업인 스티비대상은 올해의 여성 경영자, 올해의 여성 임원, 올해의 멘토 또는 코치, 공로상, 평등 임금 성취, 여성을 도운 여성, 올해의 여성 임직원, 여성이 소유하고 있거나 경영하고 있는 올해의 기업, 올해의 여성 혁신가 등 90개 이상의 카테고리에서 일하는 여성들의 성취에 영예를 수여한다.

본선진출작은 10월 4일 발표되며, 금, 은, 동 스티비상 수상자는 2018년 11월 16일 뉴욕시의 쉐라톤 뉴욕 타임스퀘어 호텔에서 열리는 시상식 연회에서 밝혀진다.

2017년 금, 은, 동 스티비상 수상자들은 세계 곳곳 크고 작은 조직들의 다양한 그룹을 반영한다. 2017년의 수상자들에는 Built.io, Clariti Group, DHL Express, Good Food Enterprise, Promote Iceland, Sari Bari, SAP, Simple Mills, Tropic Skincare, UnitedHealthcare 등 여러 조직이 있다.

2018년 여성기업인 스티비대상은 세계 곳곳의 200여 주요 전문가들에 의해 심사되며, 출품사는 매우 귀중한 자원인 출품작들에 대한 심사위원들의 심사평과 제안을 볼 수 있다. 

스티비® 어워즈에 대하여

스티비 어워즈는 아시아-태평양 스티비상(Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards), 국제 비즈니스 대상(International Business Awards®), 여성 기업인 스티비 대상(Stevie Awards for Women in Business), 영업 및 고객서비스 스티비 대상(Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service), 위대한회사 스티비상(Stevie Awards for Great Employers), 미국 비즈니스 대상(American Business Awards®), 독일 스티비상(German Stevie Awards)의 7개 프로그램을 운영하고 있다. 스티비상에는 매년 70개 국가 이상에서 1만 이상의 조직이 출품한다. 모든 형태와 규모의 조직 및 그 조직을 이끄는 사람들의 명예를 기리는 스티비 어워즈는 전세계 기업들이 창출해낸 뛰어난 성과들을 인정하는 일을 하고 있다. 상세한 정보는 홈페이지(www.StevieAwards.com)를 통해 알 수 있다.

Increased efficiency. Unified processes. Lower costs.

This combination of benefits has led to rapid growth for SmartLinx. The U.S.-based company provides a workforce management suite that helps organizations, including long-term and post-acute care facilities, simplify everything from hiring and payroll to scheduling and time recording.

Among the organizations that saw substantial results from the SmartLinx universal software solution is the Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation. The New York, New York, United States, senior living facility was suddenly able to make payroll more efficient and streamline employee work practices within one platform. Ultimately, this saved the company hundreds of thousands of dollars in labor costs.

Numerous organizations have experienced similar results across the United States. Oriol, a health care agency in Massachusetts, United States, was able to slash inefficient overtime costs. The Greek Rehabilitation and Care Center near Chicago, Illinois, United States, was able to reduce a process from 60 reported work hours down to just two minutes. Outcomes like this consistently help SmartLinx achieve high user retention rates and average more than 50 percent annual growth.

SmartLinx was also the first software company to offer a complete solution for Affordable Care Act compliance, and the company routinely expresses a commitment to staying ahead of all ACA regulations.

While health care and senior living facilities are a core part of the company’s business, its software also serves the needs of government agencies, hospitality programs, and manufacturing enterprises. With the SmartLinx software, companies are able to unify their processes and departments and make them more efficient, saving them significant money in the process.

SmartLinx was founded in 2000 and maintains 100 staff members. It operates from its headquarters in Edison, New Jersey, United States, and has a support center in North Charleston, South Carolina, United States.

A Focus on Customer Service

A personal approach with their partners only improves business relationships and increases success for SmartLinx, according to CEO Marina Aslanyan.

“We don’t work with ‘clients,’” she told Forbes. “We consider them our partners, and we provide services to them that allow them to transform their businesses.”

The company’s laser focus on customer service, which includes using scorecards to enable customer health monitoring and value confirmation, earned it the Bronze Stevie^® Award for Best Use of Technology in Customer Service in the Computer Industries category.

It is not, however, the first time SmartLinx has crossed the stage at a Stevie Awards ceremony. In 2017, the management team won a Bronze Stevie Award for Innovation in Customer Service. In 2016, the firm earned a gold Stevie for Customer Service Management Team of the Year.

The company’s commitment to creating a satisfying user experience made this latest accolade all the more special, according to Darcy Grabenstein, a content manager at SmartLinx.

“The Stevie Awards, particularly those for customer service, underscore the priority SmartLinx places on customer success,” Grabenstein says. “They validate our efforts to ensure our customers are satisfied, not only with our products but with the support behind them.”

Two SmartLinx customer support team members also earned individual awards in the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service this year. Thomas VanAntwerp, a customer support team leader, won the gold award for Young Customer Service Professional of the Year in the Technology Industries segment, and Brandon Tahquette, a customer support specialist, won a silver award as Front-Line Customer Service Professional of the Year.

The leadership team consistently ensures innovation and diversity are part of the company’s culture. Grabenstein says the team regularly evaluates and advances technology concepts; targets industry challenges, such as those evolving in the ACA, senior care, and health care fields; and encourages growth, training, and sharing perspectives in the workplace. This fosters a healthy working environment and company growth.

“We are growing rapidly, but we are committed to maintaining the level of service our clients are accustomed to,” says Grabenstein. “We are committed to their success.”

Although Alan Stillman didn’t invent the phrase “TGIF,” he knew how universal the feeling was, and he opened the first TGI Fridays restaurant in 1965 in New York, United States.

As the original casual dining bar and grill, TGI Fridays offers authentic American food and legendary drinks, and it’s all served with genuine personal service.

Bringing people together to socialize and to celebrate the liberating spirit of Friday was the restaurant’s founding premise, and from this was born the brand promise: in here, it's always Friday.

To share the Friday experience all over the world, TGI Fridays proudly serves guests in over nine hundred restaurants in more than sixty countries. Making every day feel like Friday wouldn't be possible, however, without creating a place where friends feel free to get together. TGI Fridays takes pride in their nearly 74,000 skilled and knowledgeable team members who help serve their guests each and every day.

Connected Experiences

Technology is revolutionizing the restaurant industry, and the influx of mobile capabilities, tablets, online ordering, and even AI-driven automation in the food and beverage space continues to accelerate and to create more meaningful and connected dining experiences.

Chief Experience Officer at TGI Fridays, Sherif Mityas, affirms the impact they’ve felt since winning a Gold Stevie Award®, especially as it pertains to their IT department.

“This is an amazing award for our team and for the organization as a whole. Being recognized as the best IT department of the year in The American Business Awards® is truly an honor, and it has created an immense sense of pride for every team member in the organization.”

By incorporating technology into the dining experience for their guests, TGI Fridays continues to make a concerted effort to create an innovative mindset for their entire brand. In many ways, according to Mityas, they consider themselves a “technology company that happens to sell beer and ribs.”

The team has also been recognized as a two-time winner of the CIO100 award (by CIO Magazine), a Digital50 award winner, and the Most Innovative Team (by the International Franchise Association).

Be Better, Do Better

TGI Fridays doesn’t just celebrate the Friday brand in their restaurants; they also pass that mentality to their staff members. As such, they allow all IT team members to leave early on Friday, which gives people time to enjoy their friends and family and, in turn, to be better and more productive at work.

Their IT team also comprises men and women from all walks of life and backgrounds. Ranging in age from twenty-two to seventy-five, the team members are over 60 percent women, and the minority workers hail from over twelve countries.

“It’s truly an exceptional team that does great things together for the benefit of our millions of guests around the world every day.”
 
A never-ending drive to be better and to do more has allowed a relatively small group to accomplish great things. One of the keys to their success is never settling for how things are expected to be.

“We're always challenging the status quo and asking what’s next,” says Mityas.

Para pemenang Grand Stevie Awards akan menerima piala di InterContinental London Park Lane Hotel, pada tanggal 20 Oktober.

The Stevie® Awards telah mengumumkan para pemenang IBA Awards Terbaik Tahun 2018 International Business Awards®  (Tahunan ke-15), kompetisi penghargaan bisnisutama dunia.

Para nominator di IBA 2018 tidak dapat mengajukan permohonan IBA Awards Terbaik secara langsung. Para pemenang ditentukan dengan sistem poin berdasarkan jumlah total penghargaan yang dimenangkan di IBA dengan kemenangan Emas Stevie untuk tiga poin, kemenangan Stevie Perak untuk dua poin, dan kemenangan Stevie Perunggu untuk 1,5 poin.

Para pemenang Emas, Perak dan Perunggu Stevie Award tahun ini diumumkan pada tanggal 9 Agustus. Para pemenang IBA Awards Terbaik akan dianugerahi piala Grand Stevie Award pada banquet International Business Awards Tahunan ke-15 di InterContinental London Park Lane Hotel pada tanggal 20 Oktober.

Para pemenang Grand Stevie Awards 2018 adalah sebagai berikut:

Most Honored Organization: Perusahaan logistik dan surat pos International  DP DHL Group, dengan perolehan 84,5 poin dari entri memenangkan Stevie Emas, Perak dan Perunggu yang diajukan oleh kantor dan afiliasi mereka di 30 negara. Dengan sekitar 520.000 pekerja di lebih dari 220 negara dan wilayah, Group menghasilkan pendapatan lebih dari 60 milyar Euro pada tanun 2017.

Most Honored Public Relations Agency: ASDA’A BCW, dengan total 53 poin penghargaan perolehan dari entri memenangkan Stevie Emas, Perak dan Perunggu yang diajukan atas nama klien seperti Ford dan GEMS Education. Perusahaan, yang berkantor pusat perusahaan di Dubai dengan 11 kantor di Timur Tengah, juga memenangkan Top 10 Grand Stevie Awars pada tahun 2017.

Most Honored Marketing Agency: GXEVER, dengan total perolehan 25 poin dari entri memenangkan Stevie Emas, Perak dan Perunggu yang diajukan oleh kantor pusat mereka di Beijing dan kantornya di Shanghai, Chongqing dan sebagian besar kota-kota yang lebih kecil di China.

Most Honored Interactive Services Agency: Magnet20, dengan perolehan 26,5 poin dari entri memenangkan Stevie Emas, Perak dan Perunggu yang diajukan oleh kantor mereka di Istanbul, Turki untuk memenangkan Stevies atas nama kliennya termasuk perusahaan GSK Turki dan perusahaan Akcansa.

Top 10: Berikut ini adalah para pemenang Stevie Emas, Perak dan Perunggu diantara semua perusahaan/organisasi lainnya yang dianugrahkan di IBA 2018. Mereka juga akan diberikan piala Grand Stevie Awards. Dikarenakan poin seimbang ada 11 penerima penghargaan dalam Top 10 tahun ini.

1. Telkom Indonesia – Jakarta (83.5 point)

2. PT Petrokimia Gresik – Gresik, Indonesia (31.5)

3. Ooredoo Group –worldwide (30.5)

4. PJ Lhuillier, Inc (PJLI) – Manila, Philippines (30)

5. FIS – Jacksonville, FL USA (29.5)

6. (tie) Akbank – Istanbul, Turkey (28)

YapiKredi Bank – Istanbul, Turkey (28)

8. Turk Telekom – Istanbul, Turkey (26)

9. LLORENTE & CUENCA – Madrid, Spain (25.5)

10. (tie) Makers Nutrition – Hauppauge, NY USA (23)

Jeunesse Global – Lake Mary, FL USA (23)

“Dari semua perusahaan/organisasi dan pecapaian luar biasa yang diakui diantara nominasi-nominasi IBA tahun ini, 15 perusahaan/organisasi ini menonjol sebagai perusahaan/organisasi dengan pencapaian terluas,” kata Michael Gallagher, presiden dan pendiri Stevie Awards. “Penghargaan IBA Terbaik ditujukan untuk memberikan penghargaan kepada perusahaan/organisasi yang menunjukkan dedikasi yang sangat kuat terhadap penghargaan pekerjaan pekerja mereka, komitmen kepada klien mereka, dan rasa inovasi, serta kami mengharapkan dapat menganugerahkan perusahaan-perusahaan ini dengan piala Grand Stevie Award di acara gala kami di London pada tanggal 20 Oktober.”

International Business Awards menampilkan berbagai kategori untuk pengakuan pencapaian dalam setiap aspek kehidupan kerja, termasuk penghargaan manajemen,penghargaan produk baru, penghargaan marketing, penghargaan hubungan masyarakat(PR), penghargaan layanan pelanggan(CS) , penghargaan website, dan banyak lagi.

Penentuan Emas, Perak dan Perunggu Stevie Award dalam IBA 2018 ditentukan dengan nilai rata-rata lebih dari 200 profesional di seluruh dunia dalam proses penjurian tiga bulan..

Untuk informasi lebih lanjut tentang International Business Awards, termasuk daftar lengkap dari semua para pemenang Stevie Award dalam kompetisi 2018, kunjungi www.StevieAwards.com/IBA.

Tentang Stevie Awards

Stevie Awards diberikan untuk tujuh program:Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, German Stevie Awards, American Business Awards®, International Business Awards®, Stevie Awards for Great Employers, Stevie Awards for Women in Business dan Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Kompetisi Stevie Awards menerima lebih dari 10.000 entri setiap tahun dari organisasi/perusahaan di lebih dari 70 negara.Menghargai semua jenis dan ukuran organisasi/perusahaan serta orang-orang dibaliknya, Stevie mengakui kinerja luarbiasa di tempat kerja di seluruh dunia.Pelajari lebih lanjut tentang Stevie Awards di http://www.StevieAwards.com.

史蒂夫®奖将于10月20日在英国伦敦帕克巷洲际酒店举行颁奖典礼

    史蒂夫®奖已公布2018年(第15届)国际商务大奖的获奖者名单，这是全球首屈一指的国际商业奖项比赛。

    2018 国际商业奖的被提名人不可直接申请参赛国际商业大奖。获奖者通过国际商业奖金、银、铜奖的数量来计分评选，获国际商业奖金奖为3分，银奖为2分，铜奖为1.5分。

    今年的国际商业奖金、银、铜奖得主已于8月9日公布。第15届国际商业奖颁奖典礼将于10月20日在英国伦敦帕克巷洲际酒店举行，届时将为国际商业奖获奖者颁发奖杯。

2018史蒂夫®奖得奖者：

最高荣誉组织：国际邮政及物流公司 DP DHL Group, 其分布于30个国家的附属办事处及附属企业所提供的金、银、铜奖作品的获奖分数为84.5分。该集团在220多个国家拥有约 520,000名员工，在2017年创造出超过600亿欧元的收入。

最高荣誉公关机构： ASDA’A BCW, 代表福特(Ford)和环球教育(GEMS)等客户所提交的金、银、铜奖作品的获奖分数为53分。 该公司的总部设于迪拜，在中东有11个办事处，在2017年曾获十大史蒂夫®奖。

最高荣誉营销机构： GXEVER, 由其北京总部及上海、重庆和众多中国大部分小城市的办事处所提供的金、银、铜奖作品的获奖分数为25分。

最高荣誉互动服务机构： Magnet20, 由其属下的土耳其伊斯坦布尔办事处所提供的金、银、铜奖作品的获奖分数为26.5分，代表葛兰素史克土耳其公司(GSK Turkey Company)及 Akçansa公司等客户获得史蒂夫®奖。

TOP 10: 他们是2018国际商业奖所有组织中最为优秀的金、银、铜奖得主，他们也将获颁史蒂夫®奖奖杯。由于同分的关系，今年的TOP10有11位得奖者：

1. 印尼电信(Telkom Indonesia) – 雅加达 (83.5 分)

2. 锦石石化公司(PT Petrokimia Gresik ) – 印尼锦石(31.5分)

3. 卡塔尔电信(Ooredoo Group) – 全球 (30.5分)

4. PJ Lhuillier, Inc (PJLI) – 菲律宾马尼拉 (30分)

5. FIS – 美国佛罗里达州杰克逊维尔 (29.5分)

6. (同分) 阿克银行(Akbank) kb土耳其伊斯坦布尔 (28分)

               建设信贷银行(Yapi Kredi Bank) Ba土耳其伊斯坦布尔 (28分)

8. 土耳其电信(Turk Telekom) ur土耳其伊斯坦布尔 (26 分)

9. 悠岚宣雅(LLORENTE & CUENCA) – 西班牙马德里 (25.5 分)

10. (同分) Makers Nutrition – 美国纽约霍波格 (23 分)

                 Jeunesse Global – 美国佛罗里达州玛丽湖 (23 分)

    史蒂夫® 奖的主席及创办人Michael Gallagher表示: “今年的国际商业奖提名数打破了往年记录，其中这15个组织的成就最大，因而在众多优秀机构及卓越成就中脱颖而出。国际商业大奖旨在表彰那些尊重员工工作、恪守客户承诺、拥有创新意识的机构。我们期待10月20日在伦敦的颁奖礼上以史蒂夫® 奖的奖杯为他们庆祝。”

    国际商业奖旨在表彰各种类别的工作成就，其中包括管理奖、新产品奖、营销奖、公共关系奖、客户服务奖、网站奖等。

    史蒂夫®奖2018国际商业奖的金、银、铜奖由来自世界各地的200多名专业人士进行评选并取其平均分，评审过程耗时3个月。

    参阅 www.StevieAwards.com/IBA，了解更多有关国际商业奖的信息以及2018史蒂夫®奖的完整获奖名单等。

关于史蒂夫®奖

    史蒂夫®奖有七类奖项，分别为：亚-太史蒂夫®奖、德国史蒂夫®奖、美国商业大奖®、国际商业大奖®、史蒂夫优秀雇主奖、女性企业家史蒂夫®奖、经营及顾客服务史蒂夫®奖。史蒂夫®奖比赛每年都会从全球70多个国家的各大企业收到超过1万份的参赛作品。史蒂夫®奖旨在表彰全球各类型和规模的企业及其背后的人才，并对在全世界具有出色表现的工作单位给予认可。

    查看 http://www.stevieawards.com，了解更多史蒂夫®奖的详情。

Over the past decade, there’s been a sea change in the way people consume video content. Today’s viewers can download and stream multimedia on their computers, as well as on mobile apps, social media sites, and a variety of connected TV devices, such as Roku, Fire TV, and Apple TV.

Thanks to the proliferation of outlets—and a steep drop in production costs—you no longer have to be a major broadcast network or media conglomerate to gain viewers. Now, even small businesses, state and county governments, and churches are using these non-cable outlets, commonly referred to as “over the top,” or OTT, to reach a whole new audience.

While the barriers to entry are certainly less insurmountable than in the past, independent producers still need the tools to upload, manage, and publish their video and audio content on a wide range of media platforms. Lightcast.com has been helping clients overcome this exact challenge since its inception in 2010.

The company, which has offices in the United States (Charlotte, North Carolina) and Europe, bills itself as the one-stop shop for all its clients’ publishing needs. In addition to providing transcoding services—it creates more than a dozen renditions of each video in different bitrates—it offers a fully functional content management system and the ability to distribute multimedia using one of the world’s largest server networks.

It also helps organizations monetize their content by creating advertising, pay-per-view, and subscription strategies. By eliminating the need to work with video ad networks—what it calls the industry middlemen—the company claims content creators can boost their net revenue.

The “Democratization” of Video

“The shift away from mere streaming on websites to OTT has kept all streaming providers and online video platforms on their toes,” says the company’s managing director, Andreas Kisslinger. “Lightcast.com, in particular, has really enjoyed, welcomed, embraced, and promoted this change as we see the new publishing channels and platforms as a huge opportunity for media publishers.”

For Kisslinger, the changes in the media landscape enable organizations of all stripes to amplify their messages and to expand their reach.

“It’s a chance for democratization of information flow, creativity, and entrepreneurship among independent producers, of which many are highly successful,” he says.

Lightcast, whose Media Cloud solution won the Gold StevieⓇ Award  in The American Business Awards® for New Product or Service of the Year in the CMS category, has tapped in to those opportunities as well as anyone. Its software suite now helps support a multitude of media outlets on social media, connected TV, and mobile apps. Today, InTouch Ministries, Foody TV, and All About Golf are among the thousands of clients Lightcast helps connect with new audiences. It’s an impressive achievement for a company that started with little and worked tirelessly with its “bootstraps” mentality.

“We are all young entrepreneurs from various countries. All self-funded and self-made, without any venture capital or connections behind our backs,” says Kisslinger. “Instead of using investment capital, we built our business exclusively with sweat, blood, and tears—and, most of all, the satisfaction of our customers who share their excitement about our products with others."

Kisslinger acknowledges that keeping a trans-Atlantic operation going isn’t always easy, though. The staff has to continually navigate language and time zone differences to make it work. For Kisslinger, however, what they have in common is more important: a desire to go above and beyond for their customers.

One of the company’s keys to success is a relentless pursuit of the perfect multimedia publishing suite.

“We have a proprietary CRM system and database in which we record every feedback, every wish, and every need customers send us. We do this in order to refine the user interfaces and feature sets of our software-as-a-service offering,” says Kisslinger.

This approach helped the company earn numerous awards for product design over the past few years, but for Kisslinger, snagging the Stevie Award was particularly satisfying.

“We regard the Stevie as one of the most important and prestigious awards a business can win,” he says. “It’s boosted the excitement and self-esteem of our teams—especially among our hardworking coders, web developers, and graphic designers. Everyone is especially excited and grateful over this year's award,” he says.

The Stevie® Awards have announced the winners of the Best of the IBA Awards in The 2018 (15^th Annual) International Business Awards®, the world’s premier business awards competition.

Nominees in the 2018 IBAs were not able to apply for the Best of the IBA Awards directly. Winners were determined by a points system based on the total number of awards won in the IBAs with a Gold Stevie win counting for three points, a Silver Stevie win for two points, and a Bronze Stevie win for 1.5 points. 

This year’s Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award winners in The International Business Awards were announced on 9 August. The winners of the Best of the IBA Awards will be presented with Grand Stevie Award trophies at The 15^th Annual International Business Awards banquet at the Intercontinental London Park Lane Hotel on 20 October. 

Winners of the 2018 Grand Stevie Awards are:

Most Honored Organization: International mail and logistics company DP DHL Group, with 84.5 award points earned by Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie-winning entries submitted by their offices and affiliates in 30 countries. With approximately 520,000 employees in more than 220 countries and territories, the Group generated revenues of more than 60 billion Euros in 2017.

Most Honored Public Relations Agency: ASDA’A BCW, with a total of 53 award points earned by Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie-winning entries submitted on behalf of clients like Ford and GEMS Education. The company, headquartered in Dubai with 11 offices in the Middle East, also won a Top 10 Grand Stevie Award in 2017.

Most Honored Marketing Agency: GXEVER, with a total of 25 points earned by Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie-winning entries submitted by their headquarters in Beijing and offices in Shanghai, Chongqing, and most of China’s smaller cities.

Most Honored Interactive Services Agency: Magnet20, with 26.5 points earned by Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie-winning entries submitted by their office in Istanbul, Turkey for Stevies won on behalf of clients including GSK Turkey Company and Akçansa Company.

Top 10: These are the top Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie winners among all other organizations honored in the 2018 IBAs. They’ll also be presented with Grand Stevie Award trophies.  Because of ties there are 11 honorees in the Top 10 this year:

1. Telkom Indonesia – Jakarta (83.5 points)
2. PT Petrokimia Gresik – Gresik, Indonesia (31.5)
3. Ooredoo Group – worldwide (30.5)
4. PJ Lhuillier, Inc (PJLI) – Manila, Philippines (30)
5. FIS – Jacksonville, FL USA (29.5)
6. (tie) Akbank – Istanbul, Turkey (28)

            Yapi Kredi Bank – Istanbul, Turkey (28)

8. Turk Telekom – Istanbul, Turkey (26)
9. LLORENTE & CUENCA – Madrid, Spain (25.5)
10. (tie) Makers Nutrition – Hauppauge, NY USA (23)

              Jeunesse Global – Lake Mary, FL USA (23)

“Of all the outstanding organizations and achievements that were recognized among this year’s record-breaking number of IBA nominations, these 15 organizations stand out as the ones with the widest breadth of achievement,” said Michael Gallagher, president and founder of the Stevie Awards. “The Best of the IBA Awards are intended to honor organizations that show an especially strong dedication to honoring the work of their employees, commitment to their clients, and a sense of innovation, and we look forward to celebrating these firms with Grand Stevie Award trophies at our gala event in London on 20 October.”

The International Business Awards feature a wide variety of categories to recognize achievement in every facet of work life, including management awards, new product awards, marketing awards, PR awards, customer service awards, website awards, and more.

Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award placements in the 2018 IBAs were determined by the average scores of more than 200 professionals worldwide in the three-month judging process.

For more information about The International Business Awards, including a complete list of all Stevie Award winners in the 2018 competition, visit www.StevieAwards.com/IBA.