This year’s Optimas Award winners exemplify the skill and ingenuity it takes for organizations to succeed in the 21st century. They have reinvented the workplace, streamlined government HR processes, created innovative partnerships, confronted talent shortages, saved a corporate reputation, nurtured a learning environment in a fast-paced business setting, sidestepped the pitfalls of an acquisition and much more.
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or 17 years, the Optimas Awards have recognized workforce management
initiatives that directly improve business results. While many of the
qualities involved in creating excellent and profitable organizations
don’t vary, each year’s winners do reflect the changing business environment.
In the early ’90s, human resources shed its administrative
straitjacket. In the dot-com era, innovation reigned, and companies
showered employees with unprecedented perks. In the crash that followed,
the winning organizations showed a resolve and a determination to do
more with less.
Now, as the global economy changes dramatically,
a different theme is emerging. In nearly every category this year, the
winning organizations’ entries centered on talent. How to find it—sometimes
in dizzying numbers. How to bring people into an organization quickly.
How to maximize their abilities. How to steep them in a company’s culture.
How to retain the best people in the face of ever-increasing competition.
It’s our pleasure to honor the achievements of
the 2007 Optimas Award winners, and to share them with you.
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or 17 years, the Optimas Awards have recognized workforce management
initiatives that directly improve business results. While many of the
qualities involved in creating excellent and profitable organizations
don’t vary, each year’s winners do reflect the changing business environment.
