IQPC Announce 2009 European Process Excellence Award Winners

Following 6 months of applications, short-listing and interviews the winners of IQPC’s Process Excellence Awards for 2009 are revealed. The final judging round took place at the Novotel West in Hammersmith London, as part of the 10th Annual Process Excellence Summit and winners were announced the following day at the annual awards dinner.

London, United Kingdom, April 29, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Following 6 months of applications, short-listing and interviews the winners of IQPC’s Process Excellence Awards for 2009 are revealed. The final judging round took place at the Novotel West in Hammersmith London, as part of the 10th Annual Process Excellence Summit and winners were announced the following day at the annual awards dinner.

Megan James, Director Process Excellence Awards, IQPC said “It was enormously encouraging to share and recognise such great success stories during the current business climate – these awards will really help both winners and finalists to retain continuing support and engagement throughout the year ahead” This feeling of ‘nothing is impossible’ was reflected by the keynote speaker Jim Lawless who spoke about ‘taming tigers’ and by the support of the 150 industry professionals that joined the awards ceremony to await the winners’ announcement.

2009 Winners include:

‘Best Project Contributing to Innovation’ sponsored by Accenture
Winner: Scottish Power
Honorary mention: Larsen & Toubro

‘Best Process Improvement in Service & Transaction Project’ sponsored by Minitab
Winner: Lloyds Register
Honorary mention: Firstsource Solutions BSFI India

‘Best Project Under 90 Days’ sponsored by Six Sigma IQ
Winner: Lloyds Register
Honorary mention: Bank of Ireland Life

‘Best Operational Excellence Project in Financial Services’ sponsored by IQPC’s Business Process Excellence Exchange in Financial Services
Winner: Sutherland Global Services
Honorary mention: Deutsche Bank

‘Best Start Up Program’ sponsored by i&i
Winner: Lloyds Register
Honorary mention: RS Components

‘Best Improvement Program’ sponsored by IQPC
Winner: National Australia Group
Honorary mention: Deutsche Bank

Lloyds Register came out on top, sweeping up no less than 3 awards for their outstanding performance. Michael Howarth, Group Business Assurance Programme Leader states “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. This has truly put Lloyd’s Register on the map for Quality and Business Assurance. The team deserve these prestigious international awards as a reward for the significant amount of hard work and effort that they have invested to improve processes at Lloyd’s Register.”

IQPC congratulates all entrants, finalists and winners for their hard work and commitment to Process Excellence. Celebrations continued following the dinner and official photographs of the winners were taken.

For full awards information, photo’s and event video please visit: www.ProcessExcellenceLondon.co.uk.

Contact:
Amy Jeffray
Head of Marketing
10th Annual Process Excellence Summit and Awards
+44 (0) 207 368 9306
amy.jeffray@iqpc.co.uk

About Six Sigma & Process Excellence IQ
Six Sigma & Process Excellence IQ, a division of IQPC, is the leading networking, information and research portal for Process Excellence. The portal offers the most up to date industry information and insights from worlds leading industries, practitioners and solutions providers across the glove. Six Sigma IQ also hosts the only lean Six Sigma specific online networking portal, aimed at linking information resources and industry leaders. For free membership and news links visit www.sixsigmaiq.com.

About IQPC
IQPC provides business executives around the world with tailored practical conferences, large scale events, topical seminars and in-house training programs, keeping them up-to-date with industry trends, technological developments and the regulatory landscape. IQPC’s large scale conferences are market leading “must attend” events for their respective industries.

IQPC produces more than 1,500 events annually around the world, and continues to grow. Founded in 1973, IQPC now has offices in major cities across six continents including: Berlin, Dubai, London, New York, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Stockholm and Sydney. IQPC leverages a global research base of best practices to produce an unrivalled portfolio of conferences. www.iqpc.com

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