Judges for IQPC's Process Excellence Awards describe the quality of this year's entrants and nominees. The Process Excellence Awards celebrate process excellence initiatives that have delivered outstanding results in a variety of categories, including “Best Improvement Program”, “Best Project Under 90 Days” and “Deployment Leader of the Year”. The awards were presented earlier this week at the annual Profit through Process conference in Orlando, Florida. Hospitals, manufacturers and even the United Nations were among those awarded top honours at IQPC’s process excellence awards ceremony on Tuesday evening. The awards were presented during the Profit Through Process Week - a multi-day summit for process improvement professionals - in Orlando, Florida. The awards celebrate process excellence initiatives that have delivered outstanding results in a variety of categories, including “Best Improvement Program”, “Best Project Under 90 Days” and “Deployment Leader of the Year”. In total twenty awards were handed out in different eleven categories and the competition was stiff. “The scope and quality of the awards entries from organizations across the US and beyond has, as usual, been truly outstanding,” said Profit through Process week Director, Megan James. Winners and honorable mentions were as follows: Best Process Improvement in Service and Transaction Project Small to medium corporations category Winner: Firstsource Advantage LLC, Check-return Rate Reduction Project Large corporations category Winner: Firstsource Solutions Ltd BFSI - Improving TAT to Offer Compliance for Stores Channel Honorable Mention: Florida Hospital - Increasing satisfaction and capacity in the Cath Lab Best Project Contributing to Innovation Winner: Capgemini Business Services (India) Ltd - Transformation in Outsourcing Solution: A New Horizon Honorable mention: Braskem - Development of RAP Product and Adding Value to Automotive Gasoline Best Green Process Improvement Project Winner: LSG Sky Chefs - Dishwash Process Change 2010 Honorable mention: JEA - Reduce Nitrogren Discharge to the St. John’s River from Wastewater Treatment Processing Best Project Under 90 Days Winner: TCS eServe Ltd - Turn Around Time Reduction in Treasury Process Honorable mention: Akron Children’s Hospital - MRI Scheduling Kaizen Best BPO Program Winner: Firstsource Solutions Ltd - FTSE 100 Telecom Company in the UK Best Start Up Program Winner: Singtel - Where Eagles Dare Honorable Mention: Supermedia, LLC - SuperMedia Lean Six Sigma Deployment Year One Notable Mention: United Nations - United Nations Lean Six Sigma Capacity Building Program Best Improvement Program Winner: Anderson Packaging - Anderson Packaging Performance Excellence Program Honorable Mention: JEA - JEA Organizational Performance Improvement Master Black Belt of the Year Winner: Dr. Anurag Mishra - Firstsource Solutions Ltd. Honorable Mention: Asheesh Krishnan Chopra - TCS eServe Ltd Community Contribution of the Year Winner: Diane Francisco, Covance I invite you to join as a member of the PEX Network Group http://tinyurl.com/3hwakem, you will have access to Key Leaders Globally, Events, Webinars, Presentations, Articles, Case Studies, Blog Discussions, White Papers, and Tools and Templates. To access this free content please take 2 minutes for a 1 time FREE registration at http://tiny.cc/tpkd0 Warm Regards, Steven Bonacorsi, LSS MBB, President International Standard for Lean Six Sigma Cell: 603-401-7047 skype: sbonacorsi E-mail: sbonacorsi@comcast.net Twitter: http://twitter.com/Sbonacorsi (Follow Lean Six Sigma Content) LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/StevenBonacorsi FREE Lean Six Sigma and BPM content - register at http://tiny.cc/tpkd0