🎉 Announcing the Wrike Elite 100 awards program! 🎉

Can previous winners/submissions be viewed somewhere?

Laura Lysaght Since this is an inaugural awards program, we don't have submissions from previous winners to share; however, I have generated a sample submission to give you guidance on what a high quality submission would look like. 

Here’s a sample submission for the Orchestration Customer Award to guide Wrike customers who want to nominate themselves or a colleague. The answers demonstrate a strong case study approach, showcasing how Wrike was utilized to transform business processes, drive impact, and quantify results.

Full Name: Jane Doe

Email Address: jane.doe@example.com

Company Name: ABC Tech Solutions

Department: Project Management Office (PMO)

Focus: Digital Transformation and Process Optimization

Job Level: Director

# of people on the team: 25

# of years as a Wrike user: 5 years

Wrike experience: I use Wrike to manage work and projects across multiple teams

Country: USA

Describe a specific project or initiative where you or your team demonstrated mastery in organizing, prioritizing, and managing work using Wrike’s capabilities.

Our team led a critical digital transformation project aimed at standardizing and automating our project management processes across 12 global departments. The goal was to streamline workflows, reduce project turnaround times by 30%, and improve cross-functional collaboration. Using Wrike, we developed a unified project management framework, ensuring consistency across all teams. Wrike’s custom workflows, templates, and dashboards were instrumental in organizing tasks, setting priorities, and tracking progress in real-time. This allowed us to manage over 150 concurrent projects seamlessly, delivering 98% of them on or ahead of schedule.

How did Wrike help you ensure effective and efficient work management, promoting open communication and trust within your team and across departments during this project or initiative?

Wrike played a pivotal role in enhancing communication and transparency across our teams. We utilized Wrike’s real-time activity stream and @mentions to foster open dialogue, ensuring that all stakeholders were informed of project developments as they happened. We also implemented Wrike’s request forms to centralize project intake, which reduced miscommunication and aligned expectations from the outset. The visual task dependencies and Gantt charts provided clear visibility into project timelines, helping to build trust as everyone could see how their contributions fit into the larger picture. As a result, team satisfaction scores improved by 20%, and cross-departmental collaboration increased by 35%.

Explain how you used Wrike to foster a culture of teamwork and efficiency within your organization. Provide examples of how Wrike helped encourage collaboration among team members or across departments.

Wrike became the cornerstone of our collaborative efforts by integrating it with our existing communication tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams. This integration ensured that no task or discussion was siloed, and every team member had visibility into ongoing projects. We set up Wrike’s collaborative workspaces, where team members could contribute ideas, share feedback, and document decisions in real-time. The ease of file sharing and editing within Wrike allowed us to reduce email dependency by 40% and increase collaborative task completion by 50%. Wrike’s proofing tool enabled our marketing and design teams to streamline their review and approval process, cutting down the time to market for campaigns by 25%.

Describe any change management initiatives you led or supported, specifically focusing on how you used Wrike to improve collaboration, increase adoption, and enhance efficiency within your organization.

When we transitioned to Wrike, we implemented a comprehensive change management strategy to ensure smooth adoption. This included Wrike training sessions tailored to different user roles, the creation of a Wrike champions network, and the development of an internal Wrike knowledge base. To encourage adoption, we used Wrike’s analytics and reports to showcase early wins and track user engagement. This transparent approach motivated teams to adopt Wrike’s best practices. Consequently, Wrike adoption across departments reached 95% within six months, and the time spent on manual task tracking decreased by 60%, allowing our teams to focus more on strategic initiatives.

Share any innovative solutions (including integrations, processes, etc.) involving the use of Wrike that you implemented to streamline work management and enhance efficiency.

One innovative solution we developed was integrating Wrike with our ERP system. This integration automated the flow of project-related financial data, eliminating manual data entry and reducing errors by 85%. We also created custom Wrike dashboards that pulled data from various sources, providing a single source of truth for project KPIs. Additionally, we implemented Wrike’s automation features to set up recurring tasks and reminders for routine project milestones, which improved on-time task completion by 30%. These innovations significantly streamlined our work management processes, enabling us to complete projects 20% faster.

Were you able to accelerate any strategic imperatives at your organization? What measurable business outcomes resulted from your efforts using Wrike?

Using Wrike, we were able to accelerate our company’s strategic goal of becoming an industry leader in digital solutions. By streamlining our project management processes and improving cross-functional collaboration, we reduced project delivery times by 25%, which directly contributed to a 15% increase in customer satisfaction. Moreover, the improved efficiency and reduced operational costs led to a 12% increase in our profit margins within the first year of implementation. Wrike’s role in these outcomes has been so impactful that it has become a critical component of our strategy for scaling operations globally.

Provide any additional information or examples that you believe showcase your exceptional skills in organizing, prioritizing, and managing work, and the effectiveness of Wrike in facilitating efficient work management within your organization.

Beyond our project management success, Wrike has been instrumental in our efforts to drive continuous improvement. We’ve used Wrike’s advanced reporting features to conduct quarterly reviews of our workflows, identifying bottlenecks and areas for optimization. For example, by analyzing Wrike’s workload reports, we identified an imbalance in task distribution among team members. We then restructured our team’s responsibilities, which resulted in a 15% improvement in productivity. Wrike’s flexibility allowed us to adapt quickly to changing project requirements, making it an invaluable tool in our quest for operational excellence.

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