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Chattanooga Chamber awards area innovators

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Where are they now?

Ambition, a performance management platform combining cutting-edge gamification, analytics and reporting automation to score user performance in real time, received the 2015 Spirit of Innovation Award.Ambition has since quadrupled its annual revenue, added clients like UPS, PriceWaterhouseCooper, Starwood, Xerox and West Corporation. The company has received recognition from the American Association of Inside Sales Professionals and G2Crowd as a Top Service Provider and Category Leader in Sales Performance Software.They’ve also continued innovating — building more than a dozen new features into their software platform to help sales, service and call center teams track goals, coach reps and create a culture of success in their offices.

From bottling Coca-Cola in the late 1800s to today’s advancements in 3-D printing, Chattanooga has always had an innovative streak – pioneering, revolutionary, groundbreaking – whatever you want to call it – we’ve got it.

The Chattanooga Chamber’s Spirit of Innovation Award, presented annually since 2001, is America’s first community-based award designed to foster and promote cutting-edge business activities in a specific geographic area.

This awards program honors companies, and now students, launching innovative products, practices or processes exhibiting the creative spirit that makes Chattanooga a thought leader and national model for both civic and private enterprise.

2016 Spirit of Innovation Recipient: Branch Technology