The public interest incorporated Japan Image and Information Management Association (JIIMA)
Please note information regarding the solicitation of nominees for the 18th Best Practice Awards.
The winners of the 18th Best Practice Awards have been announced.
Please check the page below.
Award-Winning Cases in the 18th Best Practice Awards
As the industry organization at the forefront of speeding up digital transformation through document information management and enhance the value of all organizations in Japan,the public interest incorporated Japan Image and Information Management Association (JIIMA) is engaged in activities to promote and raise awareness of document information management.
As part of this drive, JIIMA established its Best Practice Awards to recognize the business enterprises and organizations that have produced significant results through their deployment of innovative document information management systems.
Now in its 18th year, outstanding practice entries are being accepted as nominees for the Awards. We ask our members to recommend outstanding cases they find among their suppliers and business partners. Entry of in-house cases is also welcome.
1. What are the Best Practice Awards?
It is an awards program organized by JIIMA to recognize the outstanding cases of innovative document information management systems that have been deployed and produced significant results.
2. Entry Guidelines (please note this year’s entry period has ended)
Applications can only be submitted from the Japanese page.
3. Award Judging and Awards Presentation
The submitted cases will be reviewed by the JIIMA 'Best Practice Award Judging Committee.' Advanced cases will be awarded the 'Excellence Award' of the Best Practice Award, while cases that meet the overall score criteria but fall below the threshold for advanced evaluation will receive the 'Encouragement Award.
4. Award Judging Criteria
JIIMA’s Award Judging will include the following.
- The satisfactory application of the distinctive features of document information management;
- Innovative qualities;
- Its potential for far-reaching social significance
- The nominees’ willingness to cooperate in JIIMA's promotional activities, which will include the release of reference materials about the case at seminars, in the JIIMA IM journal and on the JIIMA website.
5. Announcement
Past Best Practice Award Winners
The public interest incorporated Japan Image and Information Management Association (JIIMA)
Please note information regarding the solicitation of nominees for the 18th Best Practice Awards.
The winners of the 18th Best Practice Awards have been announced.
Please check the page below.
Award-Winning Cases in the 18th Best Practice Awards
As the industry organization at the forefront of speeding up digital transformation through Document Information Management and enhance the value of all organizations in Japan, the public interest incorporated Japan Image and Information Management Association (JIIMA) is engaged in activities to promote and raise awareness of Document Information Management.
As part of this drive, JIIMA established its Best Practice Awards to recognize the business enterprises and organizations that have produced significant results through their deployment of innovative Document Information Management systems.
Now in its 18th year, outstanding practice entries are being accepted as nominees for the Awards. We ask our members to recommend outstanding cases they find among their suppliers and business partners. Entry of in-house cases is also welcome.
1. What are the Best Practice Awards?
It is an awards program organized by JIIMA to recognize the outstanding cases of innovative Document Information Management systems that have been deployed and produced significant results.
2. Entry Guidelines (please note this year’s entry period has ended)
Applications can only be submitted from the Japanese page.
3. Award Judging and Awards Presentation
The submitted cases will be reviewed by the JIIMA 'Best Practice Award Judging Committee.' Advanced cases will be awarded the 'Excellence Award' of the Best Practice Award, while cases that meet the overall score criteria but fall below the threshold for advanced evaluation will receive the 'Encouragement Award.
4. Award Judging Criteria
JIIMA’s Award Judging Criteria includes the following.
- The satisfactory application of the distinctive features of Document Information Management;
- Innovative qualities;
- Its potential for far-reaching social significance
- The nominees’ willingness to cooperate in JIIMA's promotional activities, which will include the release of reference materials about the case at seminars, in the JIIMA IM journal and on the JIIMA website.
5. Announcement
Past Best Practice Award Winners
- 18th Best Practice Awards (2024)
Fukuoka Transport Co., Ltd.: "Achieving Integrated Management of Delivery Receipts and Shipping Data Through Paperless Receipt Storage Operations, Enabling Instant Inquiry Responses and Significant Improvement in Operational Efficiency."
[Excellence Award]MM Bridge Co., Ltd.: "DX Transformation of Procurement Operations Driven by Compliance with the Electronic Bookkeeping Act – Innovating Workflows Through Digitalization and Creating a Flexible Work Environment."
[Incentive Award]Fujifilm BI Fukui Co., Ltd.: "Building a Foundation for Company-Wide DX Promotion and Raising Employee Awareness Through a New Information Asset Management Initiative."
[Incentive Award]Saitama Central Wholesale Market Co., Ltd.: "Balancing Compliance with the Electronic Bookkeeping Act and Full Digitalization of Internal Documents in the Wholesale Fruit and Vegetable Market."
- 17th Best Practice Awards (2023)
Ashiya Municipal Hospital: "Building a Digital Infrastructure Centered on Electronic Prescriptions, Considering Medical and Regional Collaboration, to Enhance Patient Safety and Reform Work Styles for Healthcare Professionals"
Odawara City Lifelong Learning Division, Cultural Department: "Odawara Digital Museum Creation Project"
[Incentive Award]Taiyo Kagaku Co., Ltd.: "Transforming Order Processing Through Complete Paperless Operations"
- 16th Best Practice Awards (2022)
Relo Group, Inc.: Improvement in Business Efficiency, Stronger Governance and Contribution to SDGs Through Wider Application of Electronic Contracts at Various Companies and Departments of the Group
[Incentive Award]FIS Inc.: Improvement in Business Efficiency in Document Information Management and BCP
*The Excellence Award and Incentive Award were created as separate categories starting with the 16th Best Practice Awards program.
- 15th Best Practice Awards (2021)
JTB Corporation: Digitization and Preservation of Evidentiary Documents (in Compliance with the Electronic Book Preservation Act) and Greater Efficiency in Related Business Activities <PDF 1049 KB>
Epson Sales Japan Corporation: Groupwide Implementation of the "Corporate Card" to Create a Scheme That Enables Accurate and Simple Processing and Easy Document Checking for Everyone and Digital Transformation of Sales with the Expense Settlement System
Daito Bunka Gakuen Educational Foundation: Greater Efficiency in Publication of the Academic Institution's Newsletter on the Web and Prevention of the Secondary Use of Personal Information
- 14th Best Practice Awards (2020)
JACCS Co., Ltd.: Call Center Operations Reform Through the Segmentation of Manual Documents into Parts and Integration with AI and Voice Recognition <PDF 584 KB>
HOUSECOM Corporation: Implementation of Open Service Innovation to Become a "Real Estate Business of the Post-Digitization Age" Alongside the Promotion of Document Digitization and Data Preservation
NEC Networks & System Integration Corporation: Activities in the Empowered Office, Work Style Reform for the Creation of Innovation from a Paperless Operation
Nihon Unisys Ltd.: Project to Implement Box Activities for Both the Top-Down and Bottom-Up Entrenchment
Musashino Co., Ltd.: Realization of Paperless Operation Through the Use of OCR in Duskin Expense Sheets, Expense Settlement Receipts, etc.
Ibaraki Daido Seika K.K.: Realization of the Paperless Operation of the Entire Back Office, Spurred by "Scanned Preservation" Executed Two Years Ago!
Kao Corporation/Kao Business Associe Co., Ltd.: Digital Transformation (DX) with AI and OCR to Process Billing Statements That Had Been Done Manually, Consuming a Huge Amount of Time and Man-Hours
- 13th Best Practice Awards (2019)
Japan Rugby Football Union: Japan Rugby Digital Museum Project: The History of Japanese Rugby in Digital Images
Paperless Processing of Expense-Related Documents Numbering 576,000 a Year and a Wider Scope of Disabled Persons Hiring ? the Challenges of the Persol Group
- 12th Best Practice Awards (2018)
Sakura Chuo Taxaccounting Group: Digitization of Document Information with OCR and AI and Implementation of a 100% Teleworking Scheme
K.K. Bear Tail: Greater Efficiency and Paperless Processing of Expense Settlement with the Startup of an Expense Settlement System Compliant with the Electronic Book Preservation Act and Corporate Card
Konica Minolta Japan, Inc.: The Background and Current Activities in the Document Stock Zero Project
Ibaraki Daido Seika K.K.: Challenges in the Application of Scanner Preservation Combined with the OCR of Manually Written Ledger Sheets
Money Forward Inc.: New Form of Document Digitization Through Coordination Between a Scanner and Expense Settlement System
- 11th Best Practice Awards (2017)
PCA Corporation: Scanner-Based Electronic Preservation of Expense Settlement to Receipts
Alfateccs Co., Ltd.: Innovative Case of the Smartphone Recording of Receipts for Employee Reimbursement Utilizing a Preservation Scheme Using the Scanner
- 10th Best Practice Awards (2016)
Setagaya City Hall, Tokyo: Introduction of a General-Purpose Ledger System for the City Hall
Panasonic Financial & Accounting Professional Partners Co., Ltd.: Completion of the Scanning and Preservation of 90 Million Accounting Evidence Documents for 156 Group Sorksites
- 9th Best Practice Awards (2015)
Yoursoft: The Road to Application Using Scanner-Preserved Receipts ? Our Qualms Dissipated with the National Tax Bureau's Courteous Response
Nippon Expressway Research Institute Co., Ltd.: Collection and Preservation of NEXCO's Expressway Reference Materials ? a Digital Micro Archiving Project That Took Three Years
- 8th Best Practice Awards (2014)
Furuno Electric Co., Ltd.: Digitization of Import/Export Ledger Sheets with the Development of a Trade Ledger Management System and Compliance with the Law
- 7th Best Practice Awards (2013)
The Gunma Bank, Ltd.: Digitization of Account Transfer Request Forms Based on Taxation Requirements
Toda Corporation: Digitization and Micro-Archiving of Work Documents to be Returned
- 6th Best Practice Awards (2012)
Toshima City Office, Tokyo: An Integrated Document Management System
Ito Hospital: Integration of Electronic Patient History Documents with Paper-Based History Documents to Deal with Long-Term Medical Care
NIPPI Corporation: Long-Term Preservation of Production Records Coordinated with the Production Control System
Japan Hydrographic Association: Archiving of Literature on Marine History, etc.
- 5th Best Practice Awards (2011)
Pasona Group Development of an ECM-Based Audit Handling System
Digital Control of Paper-Based Documents in the Electronic Patient History Environment at Toyama University Hospital
- 4th Best Practice Awards (2010)
Osaka University Hospital: Full Digitization of Patient Treatment Records
Saga Prefectural Government Office: Business Reform with a Ledger and Record Management System
- 3rd Best Practice Awards (2009)
Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.: Complete Digitization of Insurance Contract Documents Under the Electronic Book Preservation Act
Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited: Implementation of and Enterprise Contents Management (ECM) System for Long-Term Preservation Documents
- 2nd Best Practice Awards (2008)
K?t? Hospital: Full Digitization of Paper-Based Patient History Documents
Kanagawa Kenmin Kyosaiseikatsu Kyodo Kumiai: Implementation of Enterprise Contents Management (ECM)
- 1st Best Practice Awards (2007)
Mizuho Bank, Ltd.: Full Digitization of Credit Card Loan Application Forms in Compliance with the Electronic Book Preservation Act