WHAT A CONCEPT!
Terms and Conditions
The Program:
The Jostens What A Concept! Program is a new idea incentive program
open to all Jostens employees and Sales Representatives who submit a
completed What A Concept! New Idea Submission Form to the address listed below
prior to the appropriate deadline.
Program Duration and Deadline:
The What A Concept! Program will run from May 1, 2000 through December 31, 2001.
After December 31, 2002, the program will continue at the discretion of Jostens
Opportunity Development Deparment. To participate in the program, Jostens
employee/representatives must fill out a What A Concept! New Idea Submission Form and submit it to Jostens
Opportunity Development Department.
Completion of New Idea Form: Participants must fill in all required
fields
indicated on the What A Concept! New Idea Form (both the paper
form or website form) to be eligible for incentives in the What A Concept!
Program.
Internet Submission: New
Idea Submission forms may be submitted via Jostens Opportunity
Development Website at the following internet addresses:
odp.inside.jostens.com or
www.jostens.com/opportunitydevelopment. All rules
for completion and submission of the New Idea Submission Form
shall apply to Internet submissions. Checking the
"I Accept" box
and then "Send Idea" on the submission form, your idea will be
sent/submitted with your electronic signature.
Agreement to the terms and conditions
of Jostens Opportunity Development Program: By
submitting
a New Idea Submission Form, employees/representatives agree to comply with
the terms and conditions of What A Concept! Program listed on the back
of each paper What A Concept! New Idea Submission Form. This statement of
terms and conditions must be signed and dated by the Jostens employee/representative in
the spaces provided on the form before Jostens will accept any idea for inclusion
in the What A Concept! Program. Paper forms submitted without signatures
will not be accepted by Jostens and will be returned to the sender.
Notification of Receipt of New Idea Form:
Each time a New Idea Form has been received by
Jostens, Opportunity Development Department, a written, dated acknowledgement of receipt
will be sent to the Jostens employee/representative who submitted the idea.
Duplication of Ideas/Ideas Implemented
Independent of Submission:
In cases where more than one Jostens employee/representative submits a
What A Concept! New Idea Submission Form for the same product or service idea,
credit for the idea will be assigned to the Jostens employee/representative
whose New Idea Submission Form was submitted and received by Jostens first.
No other Jostens employee/representative will be eligible to receive cash
incentives through the What A Concept! Program for subsequent submittals of
the same idea. Submitted ideas which are existing Jostens products, services
or processes or are being implemented at the time of submission independently
of the submission will not be given credit as new ideas. Jostens Opportunity
Development Department reserves the right to reject any submitted product or
service idea that has been or is being implemented independent of the
independent submission. Jostens Opportunity Development Department will
provide written notification to any and all Jostens employee/representatives
who subsequently submit New Idea Forms for previously used or implemented ideas.
Jostens Opportunity Development Department will have sole authority to decide
when a new product or service concept submitted as part of the What A Concept!
Program is a duplicate of an idea already submitted or is an idea implemented
independent of idea submission.
Cash Incentives:
If the Jostens Opportunity Development Department Review Board evaluates
and approves a new product or service for development and pilot
market testing, the Jostens employee/representative who submitted the
idea is eligible to receive a $500.00 (pre-tax) cash incentive as part of the What
A Concept! Program, payable in accordance with Jostens then current incentive
policies.
Concept Evaluation, Approval and Notification
of Approval:
Jostens Opportunity Development Department will analyze and evaluate
all ideas submitted as part of the What A Concept! Program. This will
include, but is not limited to, an evaluation of the new ideas on the
basis of the following criteria:
- Fit with Jostens Corporate Strategy
- Fit with Jostens Opportunity Development Strategy
- Cost/Benefit Analysis
- Assessment of the ease or difficulty of implementing the idea
Jostens Opportunity Development Department will
have the sole authority for deciding which, if any, ideas submitted
as part of the What A Concept! Program are approved for further
development and testing. Jostens Opportunity Development Department
will provide written notification to the idea submitter at the time
an idea has been approved for further testing.
Proprietary Rights: By
submitting a New Idea
Submission Form, (either paper or via website) Jostens employees/representatives
agree that all proprietary rights associated with the submitted idea or
concept, including but not limited to trademark, copyright, patent or
other such rights, become the sole property of Jostens. The submitting
employee/representative agrees to execute any and all documents necessary
to memorialize the transfer of any such rights to Jostens upon
request.
Where to Submit New Idea Forms: All
paper New Idea Submission Forms for the What A Concept! Program should
be sent to the following address:
Jostens Opportunity Development
Attn: What A Concept!
5501 Norman Center Drive
Minneapolis, MN 55437
Or at the following internet addresses:
odp.inside.jostens.com
or
www.jostens.com/opportunitydevelopment
The Opportunity Development Department administers these website
mailboxes.
New Idea Submission Forms for the What A Concept!
Program which are sent to other Jostens locations will not be accepted.
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