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Eligibility

• This award is meant to recognize a specific individual or team accomplishment and is not intended for company or organization recognition.
• The impact of the accomplishment which serves as the basis of the award must have occurred during the last 5 years.
• Nominee may be an individual or team (prize will be split and travel to the awards ceremony may be limited in the event of a team award).
• Nominees from all areas of the public and private sector, including industry, academia, and government, are eligible.
• Employees of Analytic Services Inc. and the Faculty and Staff of Stevens Institute of Technology are not eligible for this prize.

Winner Stipulations

• Winner must be available to present a seminar on the selected accomplishment at the ASysT Institute in Arlington, VA.
• Winner must be available to attend the awards banquet to receive the prize.
• If the winner is unable to accept the monetary award for any reason, the funds will be donated to an educational institution.
• Winner(s) must agree to assign copyright privileges over all submissions to the ASysT Institute and Analytic Services Inc. in order to facilitate online and other publication of the winning submission.
• Winner(s) must also certify the originality of their submission and indemnify ASysT, Analytic Services Inc. and Stevens from any liability if their submission is later determined to have infringed on other copyrighted material.

Evaluation Criteria

• Significance of Problem: The accomplishment must address some aspect of a problem of US national significance in the area of national security, homeland security, energy, environment, health care or education. Though the accomplishment itself does not necessarily have to address the problem at the national level, the connection to national significance must be clear. (For example, analysis and solution of a health care problem in New York City may be acceptable if the problem is prevalent in other cities and relates to a national problem.)
• Quality of Systems Thinking: The accomplishment must clearly show the application of systems thinking. It must also illustrate the benefit that systems thinking brought to the analysis and allowed the achievement of something that was not otherwise possible.
• Level of Impact: The accomplishment must contribute to the solution of the problem and have measurable impact. The nominations should include the metrics by which the project was deemed a success and had impact.
• Contribution of the Nominee: The nominated individual or team must have been responsible for the key Systems Thinking insights that made the accomplishment possible, and deserving of a major share of the credit for the resulting impact.

Selection Process

Selection will be done in two phases.

• Phase 1: The initial nomination is submitted as an abbreviated accomplishment summary via a web-based form. Phase 1 reviews will be conducted by an ASysT review panel. High quality nominations in Phase 1 will be notified and encouraged to submit a full nomination package. 
• Phase 2: Individuals selected in Phase 1 must submit full nomination packages for Phase 2. An External Selection Board comprised of noted subject matter experts who are unaffiliated with either Analytic Services Inc. or Stevens Institute of Technology will review the Phase 2 finalists and select a winner.

Important Dates

Dates for the 2009 Prize will be promulaged by 25 July 2008.

Abbreviated Nomination (First Phase)

The abbreviated nomination is made through a web-based form. The form is found through the Nomination Short Form link at the left.

Full Nomination (Second Phase) Package

The full nomination package will comprise a combination of a web-based form and documents uploaded to the web. The URL for the form and upload site will be provided via email to individuals selected during Phase 1. The package will include:  

• Complete contact information for the nominator.
• Complete contact information for the nominee (or Team Leader in the case of a Team nomination.)
• Names and affiliations for all other team members if appropriate.
• Expanded write ups on the accomplishment and each of the three evaluation criteria.
• Supporting documentation in the form of journal articles, newspaper articles, etc.
• Two references to substantiate the accomplishment, its impact, and the credit due to the nominee.

For questions regarding the Prize, please contact ASysT at prize@asysti.org.