Corporate University Journal, Spring 2005

Corporate University Xchange Honors the Best

The 6th Annual CUX Awards were presented on January 17 at a gala dinner and awards ceremony at the Disney Yacht Club, Orlando. One Excellence Award was given in each category, along with several Best Practice Awards. Additional International Excellence Awards were also presented. The excitement built through the evening, as award winners and their teams accepted their plaques and thanked those responsible.

Ed Trolley of Knowledge Planet and Mark Allen of CUX presented the Alignment Awards. These were given to organizations that demonstrated their expertise in furthering the goals of their companies through their educational efforts. Best Practice awards went to Army Continuing Education and Randstadt North America. The Excellence Award went to CIBC. The International Alignment Best Practice Awards went to Deutsche Lufthansa and Union Fenosa, and Old Mutual won the International Excellence Award.

Chris Janssen of NYU and Jimmie West from Project Management College presented the Alliances Awards to those organizations that made the best use of external resources in their programs. Portland General Electric and Masco Corporation tied for the Excellence Award, and Deloitte Consulting, LLC, Emory Healthcare and Highmark were Best Practice winners. Coles Myer was the International Excellence winner in the category.

Bank One accepted the Excellence Award in the e-Learning category from Roger Schank of Socratic Arts. Toyota Motor Sales USA and the Department of Veteran’s Affairs received the Best Practice Awards. Gary Walker from RWD Technologies presented the International Excellence Award to Barclays PLC.

Measurement is a critical success factor for corporate universities. Chris Hardy of Defense Acquisition University presented this year’s Best Practice Awards for measurement to Army Continuing Education and Cisco Systems, and the Excellence Award to Caterpillar.

Greg Dardis of CUX and Jimmie West of Project Management College presented the awards for Leadership. New York Life was the Excellence winner, with Pfizer accepting a Best Practice plaque. Old Mutual Business School was the International Excellence winner.

Every corporate university has to start somewhere and CUX recognizes that with its Launching Award, honoring the most successful of the new CUs. This year, Randy Chase of UBS and Gary Walker from RWD Technologies presented the Best Practice Awards to Greater Chicago Food Depository and Net Appliance University, and the Excellence Award to CIBC.

Corporate universities have to get their message out to the people who can benefit from their courseware and to the business leaders who support their work. Nick van Dam from Deloitte presented this year’s Excellence Award in Marketing to Greater Chicago Food Depository, with the University of Iowa and Schwan Food Company taking home Best Practice Awards. The International Excellence Award in this category went to Coles Myer.

The conclusion of the Academy Awards is the award for Best Picture; in similar fashion, the last award at the 6th Annual CUX Awards ceremony, presented by David Kleinfelter of Kaplan University, was for Best Overall Corporate University. And the winner is…drum roll, tear open evelope, pull out the piece of paper…
Caterpillar!