Nomination form

2018 Gilles DemersAward


  1. GENERAL INFORMATION

Company’s legalname:

Address:

Phone:

Date of start of business activities:

Number of company facilities:

Name and function of contact person:

Phone:

E-mail:

  1. COMPANY ACTIVITIES

2.1 Givea brief summary of the company’s history, including its values and mission.

2.2Describe your sector of activity, your products/services and competitive advantages.

  1. CREATION OF WEALTH AND INFLUENCE

This category will recognize a company’s business growth and its impact on the Québec economy.

2015 / 2016 / 2017
Sales (including outside Québec)
Total number of customers
Assets and real estate investments (including outside Québec)
Number of permanent employees

3.1Do you have ahuman resources department/human resources management policy? See Appendix A.

3.2What communication/marketing actions have you taken in the last three years to promote your company? See Appendix A.

3.3If applicable, how many and what kinds of awards has your company received in the last three years?

3.4Do you have a strategy for strengthening your product/service offering in partnership with Québec-based or other SMEs?

3.5Describe actions taken in the last three years that have helped to expand the influence of, and support, your industry. See Appendix A.

  1. COMMITMENT TO INNOVATION

This category will recognize a company’s innovation culture and how this innovation is implemented.

4.1 Describe your innovation strategy and the elements that demonstrate that your company has an innovation culture. See Appendix A.

4.2 Describe the research and development (R&D) projects carried out during the last three years (include projects now underway). Wherever possible, for each project specify the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) and innovative products on the market stemming from the projects. See Appendix A.

4.3 If you are a manufacturing SME, how have you measured improvements made in your manufacturing processes over the last three years?See Appendix A.

4.4 How are you innovating in your business processes? See Appendix A.

4.5 Describe how your innovation strategy and related projects have contributed to the development of your company.

  1. BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AND INTERNATIONALIZATION

This category will recognize actions taken by a company to develop and deploy its activities abroad.

2015 / 2016 / 2017
Volume of sales outside Québec
Number of customers outside Québec
Number of business trips outside Québec[1]

5.1Describe your internationalization strategy. See Appendix A.

5.2Demonstrate your presence abroad. See Appendix A.

APPENDIX A – Elements that can support your application. Non-exhaustive list to be used as a suggestion to fill out the application form. It is not necessary to meet all these criteria.

3. Creation of wealth and influence

3.1This could involve the following programs or initiatives (partial list):

  • employee evaluation
  • professional development
  • equal access
  • employee assistance
  • employee recognition
  • work schedules

3.2 This could include:

• the number of press releases published in the press or on social networks over thelast three years

• redesign or development of the company’s website or communication tools

3.5 This couldinvolve:

• your commitment in associations/organizations active in aerospace

• your participation in business networking events

• your presence at international events (trade shows or other) as part of a delegation or individually

4. Commitment to Innovation

4.1 A culture of innovation can be reflected by the following factors(partial list):

• participation in trainingsessions/seminars on this theme

• the existence of a cell dedicated to innovation

• the number of full-time equivalent resources working on research and development projects (engineers/technicians/method agents)

• the number of intellectual property licences (local/international)

• innovation in business models: vertical/horizontal integration

• the existence of tools such as suggestion boxes, an intranet or a collaboration interface (google drive, wiki)…

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4.2 You could specify:

• the number of R&D projects supporting “green development”

• the number of collaborative R&D projects (CRIAQ type...)

• the number of R&D projects involving international collaboration (CARIC; EUREKA; GARDN type...)

• Frequency of participation in innovation funding programs (e.g. NSERC, NRC-IRAP, SDTC; Innovation Passport (MESI); MITACS ...)

4.3 This could include (partial list):

• level of automation

• technologies used in the company

• the level of collection, processing and dissemination of data

4.4 This may include (partial list):

• the presence of Kaizen

• monitoring dashboards

• conducting internal audits to ensure strategy follow-up

• an organizational chart

5. Business development and Internationalization

5.1 This could include (partial list):

• identification of targeted prospects (by site and/or country)

• the existence of a sales force (internal sales team/consultant...)

• the carrying out or purchase of a market research study to learn about the targeted market(s) outside Québec

• a strategic brainstorming session conducted by a third party

• participation in foreign prospecting missions

• carrying out business intelligence

• participation in skills enhancement or other programs

• participation in funding programs: Export Québec/CanExport or other

5.2 This could include (partial list):

• the number of trips made outside Québec (you could provide details on figures given in the chart)

• the existence of sales offices or facilities outside Québec

• The number of distribution contracts signed with partners from outside Québec

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[1] Trade shows/Delegations/Individual or customer prospecting visits