About the 1999 EPSS Design Contest 

This is the third annual Performance Centered Design Competition.  This year's sponsors were Lakewood Conferences' Performance Support Conference and the Performance Support Leadership Council. For the second year, Stan Malcolm served as administrator of the competition and will present the awards at Lakewood Conferences' Performance Support Conference '99 in Los Angeles.  Specifically, the award presentations will be at 5:30, directly following Gloria Gery's October 17th Sunday evening kickoff. 

Like last year, this year's judges were Gary Dickelman, Tom McCann, and Bill Miller.  They deserve a lot of credit for diligently judging 28 entries, up from only a dozen last year.

Here are the attributes used in judging - in order of importance - with respective weights.  The process normalizes and averages each judge's input.  Consistency in ranking is greater than 85%, so the results should be considered valid.  (These same attributes have been applied in all three years of the PCD Competition.)

Judges evaluated the entries by assigning a value from 0 to 5 for each category (0 = attribute not present through 5 = strongly represented).

After receiving the rankings of all three judges, they were combined and rank-ordered.  Platinum through Silver Award of Excellence winners stood apart from all others.  Then there was a cluster of four entries with similar ratings that have been given Awards of Distinction.  Finally, because of the large number of entries deserving recognition, a third category, Award of Merit, was added.  In this category falls the next cluster of 9 entries with similar ratings.

For additional information, contact Stan Malcolm (stan@performance-vision.com).

Thanks to all contest entrants and congratulations to our award winners!

Stan Malcolm, Ph.D., Principal
Performance Vision
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