Barlow Research Announces 2nd Annual Monarch Innovation Awards

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Barlow Research Associates, Inc.
(http://www.BarlowResearch.com) announces the opening of the call for entries
for the second annual Monarch Innovation Awards. The awards honor innovation
in the financial services industry and seek to recognize financial
institutions that provide the most innovative products to business customers
and to recognize risk takers who create/promote innovation within their
organizations.
Financial institutions that offer services to business customers and
vendors supplying products/services to financial institutions or directly to
business customers are eligible to enter. Persons submitting the nomination
must be directly responsible for that product or service unless the PR
department of the organization to which the product/service belongs is making
the submission. A panel of jurists from around the United States will judge
the awards. Winners will be announced during the 2009 Barlow Research Annual
Client Conference in Charlotte, NC on March 3-4, 2009.
"Changing the culture from punishing failures to celebrating successes is
the first step in creating an enterprise innovation strategy. Competing for a
Monarch Innovation Award is positive recognition for the individuals and teams
that make change happen," said John Barlow, President and Founder of Barlow
Research Associates, Inc.
The call for entries begins September 10 and is open until October 31,
2008. Organizations interested in making a nomination can obtain more
information from http://www.MonarchInnovationAwards.com or by calling
763-253-1825.
About The Monarch Awards:
Developed to recognize innovation in the financial services industry, the
Monarch Innovation Awards are the first award of its kind. The award is named
after the monarch to symbolize the rebirth that results when old formulas and
methods give way to new ways of doing things.
http://www.MonarchInnovationAwards.com
About Barlow Research Associates, Inc. (BRAI):
Barlow Research Associates, Inc. was founded in 1980 to provide research
and consulting services to the banking industry in the U.S. and overseas.
BRAI specializes in custom research projects and strategic consulting and has
also developed a widely used proprietary product in the Customer Relationship
Audit(R) (CRA), a customer satisfaction research tool designed to provide
actionable data at all levels of the bank. BRAI has a wide range of
experience in many financial markets, most notably the middle market and small
business markets. BRAI knows the questions to ask and the issues to probe.
http://www.BarlowResearch.com
SOURCE Barlow Research Associates, Inc.

Youa Yang of Barlow Research Associates, +1-763-253-1825,
yyang@barlowresearch.com