Nominate your company?s innovative product, service for IQ Awards

By Business Report Staff

BOULDER — The Boulder County Business continues to seek nominations for the second annual IQ (Innovation Quotient) Awards.

Open to any Boulder County or Denver/Boulder Corridor company that has a product or service that is innovative and creative, the IQ Awards will pick winners from numerous categories, including Web/Internet, telecom, computer hardware and software, medical products, children’s or recreational product lines and business services. All categories, including non-profits, can make a nomination.

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The IQ Awards event will be held during a luncheon from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 24 at the Omni Interlocken Resort in Broomfield. This year’s speaker will be Tim Enwall, managing vice president of Gartner Solista, a unit of Gartner Consulting.

“We anticipate another exciting and upbeat event this year,´ said Jerry W. Lewis, co-publisher and editor of The Boulder County Business Report. “There is so much innovation in and around Boulder County, and the IQ Awards is a fun way to give recognition and foster the growth of these entrepreneurial companies.”

Nominations are due by Friday, May 4, 2001.

To nominate a company, fill out the nomination form at the IQ Awards Web site, www.IQawards.com. Or see the nomination form running in current issues of The Boulder County Business Report. A form is on 32A of this issue.

Additional nomination criteria include:

* The product or service must be able to lead to a sustainable business ? one that has good market potential for success.

* The product or service must already be in the marketplace or at least in a testing situation where customers are already using it.

Arthur Andersen returns as the event’s founding sponsor. Corporate sponsor is Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison; Partner sponsors are Chrisman, Bynum & Johnson, Engineering Computer Consultants Inc., Marsh and MCSi; Associate sponsors are Clifton Gunderson, hall kinion, Mountain Aviation Inc., Pratt and Gartner Solista. For information on corporate sponsorship, contact BCBR Co-publisher Jeff Schott at (303) 440-4950, or by e-mail at jschott@bcbr.com.