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26/ 2008
Bonn, 26.06.2008
Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training wins an "IT-Excellence Benchmark Award 2008" prize
The results of the "IT Excellence Benchmark Award 2008", the largest IT user satisfaction survey in the whole of Germany, show that employees at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) are amongst Germany's most satisfied IT users. BIBB made it onto the podium by securing third place in the survey. The survey is conducted every year by the publishing house IDG (publishers of the IT magazines CIO and "Computerwoche"), the management consultancy company BGM and the Technical University of Munich. Around 60 companies, business establishments and public institutions of vastly varying sizes and from a whole range of branches took part in the survey, although most participating organisations had a workforce of between 100 and 1,000.
In accepting the prize in Düsseldorf, Prof. Dr. Reinhold Weiß, Deputy President and Director of Research at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), stressed the endeavours being undertaken by the institute to continue the process of change it had instigated in pursuit of making sustainable progress towards becoming an in-novative public authority. "The fact BIBB has recently also been certified as being in compliance with the ÖKOPROFIT environmental management system represents a further milestone along this route." Prof. Weiß believed that the success achieved by BIBB in this IT competition had its foundations in a range of factors such as a high degree of professionalism, technical equipment which is in line with requirements and skilled staff and that good team spirit and broad communication were not the least of the elements involved.
A glance at the previous year's result is enough to confirm that the good outcome achieved by BIBB was no coincidence, the institute already having been placed 4th in the 2007 poll. At the presentation of the current survey results, Horst Ellermann, Editor-in-Chief of the magazine CIO, said that it was more difficult to retain a top position that attain such a position for the first time. "No other participant has demonstrated this degree of consistency of good results so far."
The keynote speaker at the awards event, Helmut Krcmar, Professor of Business Information Technology at the Technical University of Munich and the co-initiator of the study, viewed BIBB as an outstanding example of how a high degree of user satisfaction could be achieved with comparatively low levels of human and financial resources. "Having a lot does not help a lot" was Krcmar's final summing up.
For further information, please visit www.it-excellence-benchmark.de
Point of contact at BIBB for further information:
Dr. Astrid Fey; Tel.: 0228 / 107-1730; e-mail: fey@bibb.de
