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Does the internet industry need yet another awards night? After three years of debating this question we've decided that there's a bit of a gap in the market. And this is why we’ve just announced the launch of our Innovation Awards.

Entries are now open for those clients, agencies and suppliers that have been involved in innovative web projects and technologies during the past year. There are 15 categories to choose from.

Judging will be determined by E-consultancy's analysts and a panel of industry experts including Apple, Google, Dyson, BBC, Orange and innocent drinks.

The awards will be announced and presented at London's glitzy Park Lane Hotel on 2nd December.

Dr Herman Gyr is a founding partner of the Enterprise Development Group and creator of the Enterprise Development Framework, a model for engaging leaders and other stakeholders in the transformation of their enterprise.

He is also the co-author of The Dynamic Enterprise: Tools for Turning Chaos into Strategy and Strategy into Action and hosts workshops on strategic thinking and business transformation in the digital era.

Scott Karp thinks so . The venerable web powerhouse has been taking quite a kicking of late - not from free-speech campaigners angry at Google's policy toward search results in China, but from observers critquing the Mountain View, CA, outfit's "ready, fire, aim" approach to launching new products.

What started out life as a humble search engine has now grown to number in the region of 50 services, notable recent launches having included Google Talk, Google Calendar, Google Spreadsheet, Writely and Google Checkout.

But a good number of Google's non-search services are still in beta (and still feel so much like they're in beta) and the latest edition of Business Week lays into the company for dropping the ball on everything other than its bread and butter.

Web 2.0 means different things to different people, yet it isn't just about the web, but is also about how your organisation works. Think intranet, as well as internet. Does your organisation work in a 2.0 way?

At the moment there seems to be three primary focuses around Web 2.0:

1) there are the technologists who are figuring out new technologies (there are many libraries and frameworks out there already).

2) there are the marketers and entrepreneurs, who are trying to figure out how use new 2.0 technologies and principles to generate profits, or help empower consumers (call them business people for now) in some way.

3) and finally, there are the users, who are increasingly using and enjoying the results of these new technologies. 

But how does all that filter into your organisation in a useful way, feeding into your own innovation cycle?