In a ceremony
sponsored by the Minister of Trade and Investment.
On
Wednesday, September 27, 2017, 15 institutions
will be crowned with the "Dr. Ghazi Al Gosaibi Award for the Best
Promising institution " awarded by Asharqia Chamber to a number of small
and medium institution under the
patronage of His Excellency Minister of Trade and Investment Dr. Majid bin
Abdullah Al Qasabi.
Abdulrahman
bin Saleh Al Ataishan, Chairman of Asharqia Chamber, said that the award will
be awarded in this version that has met all the requirements for winning the
award. Education,
training and consulting services).
Al
Ataishan explained that this award, which was launched by Asharqia Chamber
years ago, aims to activate and activate the role played by small and medium in institutions supporting and motivating the
national economy in general and the economy of the Eastern Region in
particular. To
deliver better quality and more innovative performance, management and
productivity, and thus play a greater role in many fields.
The
Chairman of the Chamber pointed that the
nominations for the award and then winning it are based on the provision of several
requirements, including: matching the. establishment to the definition used by
the Chamber for each sector, the existence of a clear address and address of
the establishment within the Eastern Region, and that it is owned or managed by
Saudi citizens, The
project has been under construction for less than ten years, in addition to the
availability of a commercial register or a license with the participation of
the Chamber and all are valid .. Confirming that winning the award after
providing these first requirements depends on the achievements of any
participating in the competition achievements at various levels , The most prominent of
which is the work environment in the establishment, and the polarization of Q As
well as the added value achieved by the institution of the national economy
such as excellence in the provision of the service or the product produced by
this institution in the sector under which it is located.
For
his part, Secretary General of the Chamber Abdulrahman bin Abdullah Al Wabel said
that in the light of past experiences of the award, we have witnessed a great
interaction of small and medium institutions. We witnessed the emergence of
many small and medium institutions that have taken a positive place in the
market. At
present, a keen interest in small and medium institutions for the importance of these institutions in the national economy.
Al
Wabel pointed that the award project is in line with a number of efforts and
activities carried out by the Chamber to support the sector, namely the
establishment of a specialized center under the name of Small and Medium Institutions
Center and the launch of the Youth and Business Councils, The
Small and Medium Institutions Forum and
the Small and Medium Institutions Forum, as well as a number of training
programs on small institutions creation
and management.
Dr.
Ghazi Al Gosaibi Award for Best Entrepreneurship is a pioneering initiative to
support development options across small and medium institutions
75
establishments have won the award throughout the last five sessions
Dr.
Ghazi Al Gosaibi award for the best promising institution is one of the
initiatives of Asharqia Chamber to encourage the community of businessmen and a
distinctive mechanism of support and care for small and medium institution.
Since its beginning in 2005, it has supported about 75 promising institutions
and established its presence in the local market in the Eastern Province ,
Has witnessed over the past 12 years a great interaction by the business
community, government institutions.
For
the success of the idea and the prize project, and achieve its objectives, the
Eastern Chamber with each session of the Award to form a neutral committee of
seven members from within and outside the room, which includes a number of
academics and specialists in the development of small and medium institutions,
to achieve the greatest amount of Transparency
and integrity in the selection of award winners,
The role of the
selection committee is to:
1.
The targeted sectors at the current session.
2.
Setting specific criteria for selecting winners and reviewing these criteria
with each session.
3.
Sorting applications and verifying their suitability to the conditions set for
participation.
4.
Selection of winners based on preplanned criteria.
The goals and benefits of
the award
The
award is awarded to the top fifteen promising institutions, with three of five
sectors selected carefully by the selection committee with each award cycle.
Within the framework of supporting small and medium institutions , the award
aims to:
•
Activate the role played by small and medium institutions in supporting and motivating the national economy in general and
the economy of the Eastern region in particular.
•
Raising awareness among owners of small and medium institutions, and motivating
them to provide better levels.
•
Enhancing the concept of business
pioneering in the Saudi investor.
•
Encouraging small and medium institutions to innovate and create.
•
Framing the concept of quality in small and medium institutions, and motivating
them to reach the highest levels in this aspect.
•
Encouraging small and medium institutions to play a bigger role in establishing
the concept of Saudization in the private sector.
Accordingly,
the winning enterprises receive a number of advantages, notably:
Honoring the
patron of the award ceremony.
Intensive
promotion of the facility and its owner through media coverage of the award and
its ceremony.
Notice
and publicity of the name of the establishment in the press releases issued by
the award.
Announcement
of the establishment in the Journal of Economics and Saudi Commerce magazine
(issued by Asharqia Chamber).
Sectors included:
In
each of the award sessions, the Award Committee, as already mentioned, will
develop the necessary frameworks for the award, including the identification of
a number of economic sectors, and allow its owners and representatives to
compete in the competition to win this award, based on several criteria including
the ability of institutions belonging to these Sectors,
characterized by competencies and competitive advantage to enable them to grow
more, and then open the space for them (and in front of their owners) to run
for the award.
The
sectors covered by the award at its sixth session (2016) are:
1.
Industries and support services and light.
2. Entertainment,
tourism and restaurants.
3. Business
services and information technology.
4.
Educational, training and consulting services.
5. Engineering
design and decoration services.
The
award in the fifth cycle (2014) included a number of other sectors:
1. Support and
light industries.
2. Contracting,
maintenance and operation.
3. Food and
animal production.
4. Sports and leisure.
5. Business services.
The
sectors covered by the award in the fourth round (2012) are:
1. Information technology.
2. Entertainment and
tourism services.
3. Health services.
4. Business services.
5- Support and
light industries.
The
sectors covered by the award in the third round (2010) are:
1-
Support industries for strategic sectors.
2- Information
and communication technology.
3. Education,
training and consulting.
4- Travel, tourism
and leisure.
5
- decoration and interior and exterior design.
While
the sectors covered by the award in the second session (2008) are:
1.
Industrial services directed to the strategic sectors (oil, gas, water,
electricity and petrochemicals).
2- Engineering Industries.
3. Wood industries.
4- Plastic industries.
5. Information
and communication technology.
The
sectors covered by the award in the first round (2006) were:
1- Restaurants.
2. Construction and
construction.
3- Manufactured
metal industries.
Maintenance and
industrial services.
5- Food
Industries Sector.
Conditions for nomination:
Candidates
are selected through the availability of a set of data, the most important of
which are the type of establishment, the name of the owner (s) of the
establishment, the sub-sector in which it operates, the year in which the
business started, the main products, capital amount, employment and
Saudization.
In
order for an entity to qualify for the award competition, the following
requirements should be met:
•
Conformity of the facility to the definition used by the room for each sector.
•
The location and address of the establishment within the Eastern Region.
•
Provide a valid trade record or license.
• Valid room
subscription.
• Ownership
of Saudi enterprises should be 100%
•
The project has been under operation for less than ten years.
Evaluation Criteria:
In
2005, the Award was approved by the Award Committee in the nomination and
selection of the winning establishments. These standards are reviewed with each
session and fall within the following ranges:
1. Strategic goals:
Including
the objectives of the establishment and the timetable for their implementation,
ways of reaching them and means of measuring those objectives.
2- Market knowledge:
Including
the nature of the market currently targeted by the establishment, the products and
services of the institutions, the methods used by the enterprise to maintain
its customers,
3. Human resources:
These
include methods for developing and adopting staff ideas and their participation
in decisions making, staff assessment principles, career progression
mechanisms, identification and implementation of staff training needs,
4. Quality of performance:
This
standard refers to all methods of development of products and services and the
internal work environment, and whether the establishment adopts new methods and
systems of quality, and whether the establishment has international or local
certificates in this regard.
5. Information systems:
The
database includes customers, suppliers, competitors, employees, and how the
computer system is in the operations of the facility.
6- Application of Saudization:
As
Saudization is a major national project, differentiation and competitiveness
are available to all. Accordingly, the work environment and programs of
attracting and developing Saudi competencies are a key factor in winning this
award.
7. Creativity and
innovation:
This
criterion includes what if the establishment has made a certain innovation or
adopted an innovative idea that contributed to the development of the
establishment and whether the establishment has improved a certain pattern that
differs from traditional methods in the internal and external environment,
Steps to win the Award:
By
the completion of the terms and procedures of participation for each institution,
the Committee will evaluate the information available to it for each institution
and determine the final number of establishments nominated for entry into the
competition. This shall be done in several stages and stages:
Phase 1 -
Receiving applications
Applications
for establishments wishing to be nominated for the award will be received after
completing the application form and the required papers through multiple
transmission options.
Phase 2- Studying
applications
The
Prize Committee will study the applications and ensure that they conform to the
criteria for nomination for the Prize, and then nominate a number of institutions
in each sector for the final stage.
Phase 3 -
field visits
At
this stage, the members of the committee visit the facilities that have reached
the final stage, and then announce the winners in each target sector.
Closing
ceremony:
The
Chamber will be honored at a ceremony of their own, organized by the Chamber
under official patronage. The ceremony will be held under the patronage of His
Excellency the Minister of Trade and Investment Dr. Majid
bin Abdullah Al Qasabi, on Wednesday evening (27 / Septemper / 2017), which
will highlight a number of other promising institutions and honor them for their
excellence in performance, giving and quality.
Dr.
Ghazi Al Gosaibi Award for Best institution is a pioneering initiative to
support development options across small and medium institutions
Members
of the Gosaibi Award Committee for the best promising facility:
The
Award is a constructive initiative from the Chamber to support development
options
Members
of the Dr. Ghazi Al Gosaibi Award Committee highlighted the best promising
establishment that the award is a wonderful and positive initiative to support,
nurture and develop small and medium institutions, and that it promotes
positive competitiveness among institutions for the best.
They
said that the field visits carried out within the evaluation procedures
revealed to them a positive reality witnessed by the sector of small and medium
institutions, promising a better future in this regard.
They
stressed the importance of the development and care of small and medium institutions, as the mainstay of the economy,
as confirmed by the vision of the Kingdom 2030 .. They commend the role of Asharqia Chamber in this field.
Great initiative
and positive results:
"This
award is one of the great initiatives of Asharqia Chamber to honor the
creativity in the Eastern Region in an effort to encourage the spirit of
innovation and performance development in this highly important category in the
national economy. The
concept of quality and motivating those establishments to offer their products
in a competitive manner better.
Al
Owaid pointed that to achieve the greatest transparency and integrity in the
selection of the winners of the award, the Chamber management has formed a
neutral committee of seven members, a mix of academics, businessmen and
consultants specialized in the field of small and medium institutions with long
experience and deep insight. Explaining
that the performance and interaction of the members was highly professional
with the requirements of the evaluation of the review and evaluation of the
data provided to the field visits of the facilities applicable standards, which
include the existence of clear strategic objectives and knowledge of the
market, and a good policy for the development of human resources ,
The commitment to quality work, the availability of modern information systems,
the application of the Saudization ratio, and the availability of a work
environment conducive to creativity and innovation .. pointing that the
Committee has renewed the weighted points for each of the evaluation criteria.
Al
Owaid praised the good efforts made by the members of the committee, which took
long periods of visits and analysis and discussion and then reach the
convictions about the points of evaluation for each candidate and finally
determine the winning establishments.
Award for creativity
and innovation:
Dr. Saleh
Al Shibl, member of the committee, said: Ghazi
Al Gosaibi for the best promising institution is a reward award that is
accomplished by small and medium institution
in various business sectors and offers us a beautiful model seeking business.
He
added that the award helps to raise the awareness of the establishments of the
importance of strategic goals, quality of work, market knowledge, innovation
and measurement of customer satisfaction and preservation. It also helps
highlight the vital sectors to strengthen the national economy in general and
the eastern region in particular.
He
added that it is an award that crowns our promising work and motivates young
people, God willing, to innovate in business, which will promote the economy
and create jobs for the future. He stressed that the award is not an arrival
station but a starting point for continuous improvement and creativity.
He
concluded by saying: "We congratulate all the winners of the award and we
hope that it will be the beginning of a new start for them for the better and
we hope that the award helps to compete and encourage young people to take the
initiative in the coming sessions, God willing."
Outstanding
initiatives and sustainable quality:
Member
of the Committee Khaled Al Thawadi described what he saw with the members of
the committee during the field visits of a number of small and medium .
"We have witnessed remarkable initiatives in our visit to these
establishments, we have seen positive competition from the participants, and we
focused on the process of using the exact standards, Or
technical, financial or marketing, which adds to the overall decision-making
Al-Thawadi
added: "As a committee, we have visited several field visits and met many
of the establishments in the process of differentiation and sorting. The
concept of continuous development and quality was one of the most important
elements of winning the prize." Development
and innovation and enriching the quality of our small and medium enterprises,
which are the pillars of the national economy
"We
are proud of the presence of such
institutions in the Eastern Region, which has reached this concept and
has earned the title of the best promising institution.
Congratulations to those who won and the best of years to come," he
concluded.
Initiatives that
reflect the aspirations of the Country:
"The
Chambers of Commerce in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia play a prominent role in
supporting small and medium enterprises, making it the most effective
non-governmental sector in supporting the private sector," said Badr
Al-Rizaa, member of the committee.
He
added that Asharqia Chamber has been distinguished by providing various
programs and initiatives to support the economy of the region and achieving
positive competitiveness among private sector institutions through a number of
initiatives including the award of Dr. Ghazi Al Gosaibi for the best institutions
which aims to enhance the important role played by these small institutions
and the medium by virtue of their ability to provide multiple and renewable
employment opportunities for young people as well as to encourage the
initiative in translating their aspirations
To
improve their own projects, and devote their time to managing and developing
them so that they can contribute to the development efforts taking place in the
Kingdom
"I
had the honor to participate as a member of the committee in this award. I
enjoyed it and I see the competition. This competition reflects the aspirations
of the wise leadership to enhance the role of young people," he said. And young
women to be a key supporter in promoting the nation. "
A pioneering
step towards more creativity:
The
member of the Award Committee, Dr. Nasser Al Sayah said that his membership in
this committee was a very beautiful experience, in which he stood on many
wonderful positions and creations, which reflect the reality of the progress
witnessed by our country, especially on the economic front.
He
added that small institutions are so important the national economy, and that
the issue of their care and attention is a central issue emphasized by the
vision of the Kingdom 2030. Therefore, enhancing the competitiveness of these
establishments is a step in the right direction to confirm the centrality of
these institutions
and their presence in the national economy.
He
praised the winning institutions and expressed the hope that the institutions
that did not win some observations to enhance their status and ambitions of
owners.
The
Minister of Trade and Investment paid a tribute to the winning institutions,
describing it as a step in the right direction to enhance the role of
initiative, innovation, creativity and quality in the economic life.
