EFMD is pleased to announce that London Business School and Lufthansa School of Business were selected as winners of the EFMD Excellence in Practice Award 2009. The winners were voted from 3 short-listed partnerships during a workshop at EFMD Annual Conference on Monday 8th June 2009.

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Winners

• Partnership in Planning, Development, Design, Delivery and Evaluation of the General Management Programme
  Allyson Stewart-Allen, London Business School & Michael Christ, Lufthansa School of Business
  
  

Finalists

• Partnership in Learning & Development - Virtual Strategy Development Programme
  Mike Malgrem, Ghislaine Caulat, Fran Montague, Ashridge Business School & Peter Bailliere, Alfa Laval

• Partnership for Organizational Transformation  - Collectively co-creating a new VVAA 2.0 culture
  André Wierdsma, Nyenrode Business Universiteit & Herman van Hemsbergen,  VVAA
  
  

The short-listed partnerships had their case studies published by Emerald Group Publishing in the “Strategic Direction” journal (Vol. 25 Issue 11). Emerald has agreed with EFMD to provide special electronic access to the issue for EFMD members via the following link - Strategic Direction

The following login and password must be entered to view the articles:

Login: sdefmd
Password: emerald

More information on the "Strategic Direction" journal can be found under EFMD's Journals section of the website.

Jury composition (in 2009):

The jury panel is composed of representatives from the EFMD Corporate, Business Schools and Executive Development Centers members, and more specifically in 2009:

• Jérôme Gueugnier, Operation Department Director, Corporate University, EDF Group (FR)
• Lene Augusta Jørgensen, Executive Education Director, Aarhus School of Business (DK)
• Stefan Kayser, Vice President, ThyssenKrupp Academy GmbH (D)
• Françoise Lassalle-Cottin, Executive Education Center Director, Euromed Management (FR)
• Prisca Peyer-Ehrbar, Head Global Learning Solutions, Talent Development, Swiss Reinsurance Company (CH)
• John Peters, CEO, Emerald Group Publishing Ltd (UK)
• Joachim von Berg, Business Development Advisor, Corporate Services, EFMD  (leader)

Criteria for selection (in 2009):

Operational Excellence:
1.    Sustainable partnership
2.    Quality of faculty
3.    Appropriate learning environment

Programme Management:
4.    Robust intervention (design, delivery, evaluation)
5.    Consistent participant match

Business Impact:
6.    Alignment with corporate strategy
7.    Embedding in wider HR processes
8.    Visible corporate sponsorship
9.    Positioning in L&D portfolio
10.    Impact for the company