The Global Six Sigma & Business Improvement Awards

The winners of The 2009 Global Six Sigma & Business Improvement Awards were announced at The Gala Awards Ceremony & Dinner on Wednesday October 14th 2009, held at The Walt Disney World Swan & Dolphin Resort, Orlando, Florida.

Winner of the Platinum Award for Organizational Business Improvement, sponsored by PowerSteering is Providence Health & Services.

The joint winners of The Platinum Award for Process Excellence Project, sponsored by Xonitek Corporation were Distributed Learning Directorate, US Army and Miami Children’s Hospital.

Colonel Robert Morris of the US Army won the Business Improvement Deployment Leader of the Year Award, sponsored by Oracle Crystal Ball.

The 2009 Winner of the Six Sigma & Business Improvement CEO of the Year Award, sponsored by Minitab is Tom Farrell of Dominion, which was announced in July.

Joint winners Miami Children’s Hospital and PHH Arval won the Best Application of Lean Tools within a Business Excellence Project.

The Best Emerging Business Improvement Deployment was won by Miami Children’s Hospital.

The winners of the organizational categories were:

The winners of the project excellence categories were:

Best Achievement of Organizational Business Improvement in Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals
Hexion Specialty Chemicals

Best Achievement of Organizational Business Improvement in Financial Services, sponsored by SSA & Company
Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation

Best Achievement of Organizational Business Improvement in Healthcare, sponsored by Argo Inc
Providence Health and Services

Best Achievement of Organizational Business Improvement in Manufacturing
Temple-Inland

Best Achievement of Organizational Business Improvement in Transactional Services, sponsored by Quality Group
Volt Workforce Solutions

Best Project Achievement in Business Enabling Processes
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Best Project Achievement in Green Six Sigma
WNS Global Services

Best Project Achievement in Health and Safety
Miami Children’s Hospital

Best Project Achievement in Innovation or Product Development
Distributed Learning Directorate, US Army

Best Project Achievement in Sales, Marketing or Customer Experience
Wipro

The Global Six Sigma and Business Improvement Awards are judged by a panel of independent business improvement experts and practitioners.

Entries are welcomed from all types of organizations across the globe, both within the private and public sectors, which have implemented business improvement initiatives to deliver real organizational excellence. The 2009 program is now closed for entries.

To view the full list of finalists, please click here.

If you would like to be informed about the 2010 program, please email: flora.hamilton@wcbf.com

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Sponsorship Opportunities

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