Following the final round of judging on the 18th January 2010 winners and honorary mentions were announced at the Process Excellence Awards ceremony.

Winners were selected for their achievements based on a judging criteria covering business results, direction setting and portfolio management, implementation, project execution, innovation and creating and environment for change.

Click here to view the 2010 winners and honorary mentions

North American Awards Categories

INDIVIDUAL AWARDS

• Deployment Leader of the Year
• Master Black Belt of the Year

PROGRAM AWARDS

• Best Process Improvement Program
• Best Start-Up Process Improvement Program

PROJECT AWARDS

• Best Process Improvement Project in Manufacturing (categories for small & large organisations)
• Best Process Improvement Project in Service & Transaction (categories for small and large organisations)
• Best DfSS Project
• Best Project Contributing to Innovation
• Best Process Improvement Project Under 90 Days
• NEW FOR 2010: Best Green Process Improvement Project

So why enter a Process Excellence Award?

IQPC's industry renowned Process Excellence awards are the ideal way to publicly benchmark and recognize your Process Excellence business results as well as motivate and renew passion within your organisational team. Like no other award program, it's for the community, judged by the community, so what better way to put your improvement program back on your CEO's agenda and elevate your company's profile this 2010?

A sure-fire way to invigorate your programme and ensure team commitment - Just take a look at some of the honest feedback from this year's judging panel and winners.

"When you go to an awards ceremony and you are professionally judged by senior leaders in Six Sigma you can take home external credibility that really cannot be bought anywhere else" 2009 North American Award entrant

"If a company can win an award against such steep competition then that takes their business to a whole new level" Chip Handley 2009 Judge, North American Awards

"To have won three of the awards gives me an enormous sense of pride in what we achieved together, and validates that both the results we achieved and the new approaches that we have taken are world-class." Michael Howarth, Group Business Assurance Programme Leader, Lloyds Register - 2009 European Award Winner

"We entered the IQPC award for best start up programme too benchmark ourselves against industry leaders to enable us to continually improve our approach to process excellence as well as to recognise the hard work and dedication of the team. We are very proud to be runners up to Lloyds Register and are already planning our entries for next year" Sarah Abbott, UK Continuous Improvement Manager, RS Components - 2009 European Award Honorary Mention

Judges by a hand-selected panel of industry only experts this is the only neutral platform for Lean Six Sigma - judged by the industry for the industry. Not only that but the integration of the face-to-face judging around ensures your not just in a competition of 'the best powerpoint' but the best program, people and result. But don't worry it's not complicated and won't cost you anything to enter - just click here to find out more about how to enter or the prestigious judging panel.

Make sure you're in the line-up for 2010!

For more information on the awards criteria, full listing of the 2010 judging panel, and application guidelines please Email: enquire@iqpc.co.uk or Tel: +44(0)207 368 9300/ +0800-652-2368