DALLAS, Oct. 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Jacobs (NYSE:J)
was named a winner of two 2020 Impact Awards
from Innovation Leader, a media and events company that helps
the world's largest companies build competitive advantage and
foster new growth. Jacobs won the "Best New Initiative Impact
Award" for the company's work in developing its Innovation as
a Service program to support organizational
innovation. Additionally, Innovation Leader named
Jacobs Operations Management Director Stephen Taylor as a Most Valuable Player Impact
Award recipient for 2020.
"Our Innovation as a Service workshops, which are held in
conjunction with our clients, are designed for maximum
effectiveness by quickly moving from ideation to pitching
value-driven solutions backed by business models," says Jacobs
Senior Vice President of Innovation and
Technology Heather
Wishart-Smith. "This award is affirmation that the work
we're doing to innovate at Jacobs is positioning our organization
for continued growth and agility in meeting emerging challenges
head-on."
Innovation as a Service (designed in cooperation with Jacobs'
partners at Board of Innovation), is just one facet of Jacobs'
Beyond IfSM program designed to
maximize value for the company's clients through innovative
thinking, practice and discipline with technology-driven solutions
that turn ideas into reality.
Named as a Most Valuable Player Impact Award recipient for 2020,
Jacobs Operations Management Director Stephen Taylor has been delivering multiple
Jacobs Beyond If innovation workshops directly with clients and
with Jacobs colleagues internally. The diversity of topics has
included COVID-19 client challenges and opportunities across the
defense, security and nuclear industries as well as regional
government; Jacobs' digital solution designs; and support to a
major science and technology client with their innovation
transformation.
"2020 has been an incredibly challenging year for innovators in
big organizations," said Innovation Leader CEO and Editor-in-Chief
Scott Kirsner. "We're really excited
to be able to shine a spotlight on some of the people and programs
that have been creating positive change as the Impact Awards are
all about people who keep moving ahead, no matter what the
obstacles — and that's something really worth celebrating this
year."
The awards will be accepted virtually by Jacobs' Global
Innovation Lead Kate Willison and Stephen
Taylor at Innovation Leader's Impact 2020 Conference in
late October.
At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by
solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities,
resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational
advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing,
turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for
good. With $13 billion in revenue and
a talent force of more than 55,000, Jacobs provides a full spectrum
of professional services including consulting, technical,
scientific and project delivery for the government and private
sector. Visit jacobs.com and connect with Jacobs on
Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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data. Forward-looking statements, however, are inherently
uncertain. There are a variety of factors that could cause business
results to differ materially from our forward-looking statements,
including, but not limited to, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
and the related reaction of governments on global and regional
market conditions and the company's business. For a description of
some additional factors that may occur that could cause actual
results to differ from our forward-looking statements, see our
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 27, 2019, and in particular the
discussions contained under Item 1 - Business; Item 1A - Risk
Factors; Item 3 - Legal Proceedings; and Item 7 - Management's
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations, and our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter
ended June 26, 2020, and in
particular the discussions contained under Part I, Item 2 -
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and
Results of Operations; Part II, Item 1 - Legal Proceedings; and
Part II, Item 1A - Risk Factors, as well as the company's other
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company is
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