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2011 Award Winners Announced for IQPC PEX Network's European Process Excellence Awards

(07/04/2011. London UK.) The European Process Excellence awards were announced at the PEX Network's annual community awards ceremony on Tuesday evening.

2011-04-09
LONDON, ENGLAND, April 09, 2011 (Press-News.org) The ceremony and awards formed an integral part of IQPC's annual Process Excellence Week Europe with winners including companies as diverse as Virgin Media, Royal Bolton Hospital, and ScottishPower.

The industry awards recognise categories covering programme and project success across the disciplines of Lean, Six Sigma & BPM and are designed to recognise long-term success and innovation within the community.

"Each year we see companies really pushing the envelope and this year was no exception," said Megan James, Summit & Awards Director, IQPC PEX Network. "The judges were really impressed by the scope and quality of the entries, especially in some of the new categories. The competition was tough and I'm delighted for all our winners and for everyone who reached the final shortlist."

This year's Process Excellence Award Europe Winners and Honorary Mentions are:

Best Project Contributing to Innovation
Winner: ScottishPower
Honorary Mention: Procter & Gamble

Best Process Improvement Project in Service & Transaction
Winner: Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Honorary Mention: BP Lubricants

Best Lean Transformation
Winner: Virgin Media
Honorary Mention: Firstsource

Best BPM Project
Winner: Schenker Arkas Transport & Trading

Best BPM Programme
Winner: Firstsource Solutions USA LLC

Best BPO Programme
Winner: Serco Consulting, Serco plc
Honorary Mention: Computershare

Best Start Up Process Improvement Programme
Winner: Kuwait Petroleum International
Honorary Mention: BskyB

Best Process Improvement Programme
Winner: Lloyd's Register
Honorary Mention: DSM

Recognition for Community Contribution 2011
Winner: Cristian Matei, Alstom

PEX Network would like to congratulate everyone that was shortlisted and thank the judges for their hard work and commitment to furthering excellence across the community.

The Process Excellence Summit and Awards will next be hosted for the India region with a deadline for award submissions on the 8th July 2011. Further information the awards categories, entrance criteria and judging guidelines can be found on http://www.processexcellenceindia.com

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About Process Excellence Network

Process Excellence Network: A division of IQPC, (formerly known as Six Sigma IQ) provides access to a treasure chest of relevant content for Process Excellence practitioners.
Providing critical knowledge about the development of Process Excellence including Business Process Management (BPM), Lean, Change Management, Operational Excellence, Six Sigma, Risk Management, Customer Experience and more, we provide the forum where key industry experts and organisations share their experience, knowledge and tools, and practitioner peers connect with one another all over the world, both face-to-face and online.

The Process Excellence Network is enhanced by an active online community of professional peers as well and face-to-face Summits and events that take place across the globe. Collectively we help you discover what the best are doing to get measurable results through Process Excellence and to seek actionable solutions to specific process problems through worldwide mass collaboration.

In short, Process Excellence Network, (often known as PEX Network) enables individuals and organisations to advance their process excellence journey by increasing idea sources, widening contacts and friendships and participating in ongoing formal and informal learning opportunities. http://www.PEXNetwork.com


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[Press-News.org] 2011 Award Winners Announced for IQPC PEX Network's European Process Excellence Awards
(07/04/2011. London UK.) The European Process Excellence awards were announced at the PEX Network's annual community awards ceremony on Tuesday evening.