KM Excellence Awards

Purpose of the Awards

The iKMS KM Excellence Awards are intended to surface examples of good knowledge management practice within Singapore, in any type of organization:

• for the learning benefit of the professional KM community
• to promote knowledge exchange among organizations that are already on a KM journey
• to build the confidence of organizations that are considering a KM journey

Objectives of the Awards

“Good knowledge management practice” means any KM effort that results in helpful learning in how to implement KM effectively, and that delivers some kind of tangible value to its implementing organization. Such examples can come from organization-wide KM or from smaller KM projects within a part of the organization.

The iKMS KM Excellence Awards are not benchmarking awards. They do not measure or compare your progress with other organizations in your industry or field, nationally or internationally. They are intended simply to make good KM practice visible and to support the collective learning of the KM community in Singapore by finding and highlighting useful examples of positive KM impact.

• To recognize and make visible good KM practices in Singapore
• To promote sharing and learning among the KM practitioner community
• To improve the quality of KM practice and achievement in Singapore
• To strengthen the links between KM and business needs
• To create a clearer understanding of how KM contributes to the success of organizations and to the performance of employees

To find out more about the awards process and criteria, and the application process please download the briefing pack (version 1.2 - changes in composition of the Evaluation Panel).

If you intend to submit an application, please inform us so that we can help you keep track of submission deadlines.

Award Winners

2010 winners

• Singapore Armed Forces – Platinum Award for the sustained and pervasive impact of its knowledge management initiatives, encompassing both culture change and technology deployment, to enhance the SAF's capabilities across a very wide range of operational contexts. Download citation
  
• Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee – Silver Award in the Culture category for its disciplined approach to knowledge capture, knowledge transfer and "learning on the go" to ensure success in an extremely fast-moving and high stakes event for Singapore. Download citation
  
• The Attorney General's Chambers – Bronze Award in the Technology & Culture categories for their information management, knowledge retention and knowledge sharing initiatives, in support of high quality legal decisions and an improved learning curve for junior officers. Download citation
  
• Supreme Court of Singapore – Bronze Award in the Technology & Culture categories for their KM efforts to support the work of Judicial Officers and Legal Registry, in support of their key performance indicator: the timely and effective determination of cases filed. Download citation
  
• Institute of Chemical Engineering Science - Merit Award in the Technology category for their innovative approaches to supporting the work of ICES staff with technology tools.
• Intellectual Property Office of Singapore - Merit Award in the Technology category for their knowledge management friendly Sharepoint implementation.
• Yokogawa Engineering Asia - Merit Award in the Technology category for their content reuse strategy, breaking down product manuals and project documentation into reusable content objects, creating work efficiencies and reducing costs.

On the Singapore MINDEF website: SAF receives top award for Knowledge Management excellence

2009 winners

• Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore – Silver Award in the Culture category for its work in building a knowledge sharing culture leading to improved performance, and integrated into its organisational processes, including the creation of clear roles and expectations for knowledge sharing, career development and training.
• JTC Corporation – Silver Award in the Technology and Infrastructure category for its sustained commitment to improving and developing its platforms for accessing and sharing key information and knowledge across the agency, which is a critical lever to support the effectiveness of its key operations; a Bronze Award in the Culture category for its promising work in improving collaboration, developing knowledge activists and the sharing of expertise.
• National Library Board – Bronze Award in the Culture category for the very promising signs of impact in building cross-organisation knowledge sharing from their knowledge champions programme – this was an innovative approach to moving the champions’ role beyond advocacy to modelling and deploying knowledge sharing techniques through a structured training programme, clearly defined roles and support through a community of practice.
• Ministry of Finance – Bronze Award in the Technology & Infrastructure category for  the innovative and careful way that they implemented an email repository and supporting taxonomy to improve information access and corporate memory in the organisation – this initiative is showing initial promise of a strong positive impact on the ability of Ministry staff to do their work effectively and efficiently.

Download the full press kit on the 2009 Award winners with their award citations

2008 winners

• Defence Science and Technology Agency – Silver Award for clear business impact in parts of the organisation – this initiative successfully integrated knowledge management and knowledge sharing efforts with the core capabilities of the organisation, the competency development of its staff, and provided a strong supporting infrastructure.
• Singapore Police Force, Police Technology Department – Silver Award for clear business impact in parts of the organisation – this initiative was an exemplary case of strong commitment to changing the knowledge sharing culture of a workgroup to achieve strong business benefits.
• Urban Redevelopment Authority – Silver Award for clear business impact in parts of the organisation – this initiative is a strong example of a mature KM initiative with strong, consistent management support over several years, where KM efforts have been brought together under a common framework and roadmap, and aligned with the core business of the organisation.
• National Library Board, National Library – Bronze Award for the beginnings of a positive impact in a part of the organisation – this initiative to establish a knowledge sharing platform to help reference librarians improve their service excellence in addressing customer reference enquiries is a good example of a collaborative platform allied with culture change and innovations in work processes, to achieve improvements in customer service.
• Yokogawa Electric International – Merit Award for promise of a strong business impact – this initiative to foster the sharing of technical and engineering knowledge across a global group of companies with a history of independence shows great promise of reaping business rewards for the company itself as well as their customers.

Download the full press kit on the 2008 Award winners with their award citations.