Leading South African technology companies acknowledged at TT100 Awards
South Africa's leading innovation companies were celebrated at the 2015 Top Technology 100 (TT100) Awards for their continued pioneering work in advancing knowledge creation and innovation in the country.
The TT100 Awards is an annual event hosted by the Da Vinci Institute for the Management of Technology and Innovation, under the auspices of the Department of Science and Technology (DST). The awards programme is committed to increasing employment, providing hope for budding entrepreneurs in the technology field, and demonstrating that developing countries are capable of competing with the best in the world.
At the event held in Pretoria on 27 November, X/procure Software SA, a leading provider of electronic procurement software to South Africa's pharmacies, received two awards for being the most innovative entrepreneurial business in South Africa.
X/procure Software SA walked away with the DST's Director-General Award for Overall Excellence and the Management of People Award for making people its greatest asset.
The Minister's Award for Overall Excellence was taken by ELB Engineering Services in the large enterprises category. The company has developed into a successful business that has actively focused on all the elements of the Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies(TIPS) model. It is a role model for all South African companies in respect of technology management, innovation, world-class engineering solutions and people management.
In the category of Management of Technology: Emerging Enterprise, EUROCOM, Smoke Customer Care Solutions and Intense Technologies Ltd scooped the awards for overall excellence.
Speaking at the awards, the chairperson of the panel of adjudicators, Prof. Roy Marcus, said that the TT100 programme continuously strove to identify the core attributes that constitute a "Technologically Excellent Company".
"At the heart of these organisations is an inordinate drive to stimulate innovation. Much time is placed on creating an environment in which their people believe that they have a personal stake in the business. In essence, a 'Technologically Excellent Company' pays attention to every single facet of the business, not just looking at the bottom line, but rather recognising that, if all other aspects of the business are attended to, the bottom line looks after itself," he said.
Other winners in the various categories are as follows:
In the category of Management of Innovation
- Emerging enterprise winner: ADDaBIT
- Small enterprise winner: X/procure
- Medium enterprise winner: Global Track
- Large enterprise winner: Allied Electronics Corporation
In the category of Management of People
- Emerging enterprise winner: EUROCOM
- Small enterprise winner: X/procure
- Medium enterprise winner: Global Track
- Large enterprise winner: ELB Engineering Services
In the category of Management of Technology
- Emerging enterprise winner: EUROCOM
- Small enterprise winner: Smoke Customer Care
- Medium enterprise winner: Intense Technologies
- Large enterprise winner: ELB Engineering
In the category of Management of System
- Emerging enterprise winner: EUROCOM
- Small enterprise winner: Smoke Customer Care
- Large enterprise winner: Allied Electronics
Minister's Award forSustainable Performance
Emerging enterprise winner: Campus Labs
- Small enterprise-winner: Fraxion, Innovation Agency, LucidView, Smoke Customer Care Solutions, Technetium, VeriRad, X/procure
- Medium Enterprise-winner: Global track, ID Control Solutions
- Large enterprise winner: African Oxygen, Allied Electronics Corporation, Altech Multimedia, De Beers Technologies SA, QK Meats
Ministers Award for Overall Excellence
- Medium enterprise-winner: Itemate Solutions
- Large enterprise- winner: ELB Engineering Services
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