Tag Archives: awards

My Willing Worker Award

Here is an image of the employee of the quarter award I received from Bill Scherkenbach. I have received other awards and I don’t think those awards were given with any more understanding of the contributions to results due to … Continue reading

Posted in Data, Management, Performance Appraisal, Psychology, Systems thinking | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off on My Willing Worker Award

Deming Prizes for 2011 go to Companies Based in India, Taiwan and Thailand

The Union Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) has awarded the Deming Prize to 3 companies in 2011: Sanden Vikas Limited (India) The CPAC Roof Tile Company Limited (Thailand) – I am not sure if this link is for the right … Continue reading

Posted in Deming, Management | Tagged , , , , , , | 2 Comments

2010 Deming Prize

The Union Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) has awarded the Deming Prize to 4 companies in 2010: Corona Corporation (Japan), Meidoh (Japan), GC Dental (China) and National Engineering Industries Limited (India). Organizations receiving the Deming Prize since 2000 by country … Continue reading

Posted in China, Deming, India | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

2009 Deming Prize

The Union Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) has awarded Niigata Diamond Electric (Japan) and Siam White Cement Company (Thailand) the Deming prize. Organizations receiving the Deming Prize since 2000 by country (prior to that almost all winners were from Japan): … Continue reading

Posted in Deming, Management | Tagged , , , , | 4 Comments

ASQ William Hunter Award 2008: Ronald Does

The recipient of the 2008 William G. Hunter Award is Ronald Does. The Statistics Division of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) uses the attributes that characterize Bill Hunter’s (my father – John Hunter) career – consultant, educator for practitioners, … Continue reading

Posted in Design of Experiments, Statistics | Tagged , , , | Comments Off on ASQ William Hunter Award 2008: Ronald Does

Best Places to Work for Six Sigma Professionals

iSixSigma has created a list of the Best Places to Work for Six Sigma Professionals. To be eligible to participate, companies must have been actively engaged in using Six Sigma for at least two years and must employ a minimum … Continue reading

Posted in Career, Management, Six sigma | Tagged , , | Comments Off on Best Places to Work for Six Sigma Professionals

National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Armand V. Feigenbaum received the 2007 National Medal of and Technology and Innovation for his leadership in the development of the economic relationship of quality costs, productivity improvement, and profitability, and for his pioneering application of economics, general systems theory … Continue reading

Posted in Deming, Management | Tagged , , , | Comments Off on National Medal of Technology and Innovation

2007 Baldrige National Quality Award

The Baldrige National Quality Award winners for 2007 are: PRO-TEC Coating, Leipsic, Ohio (small business) Mercy Health System, Janesville, Wisconsin (health care) Sharp HealthCare, San Diego, California (health care) City of Coral Springs, Coral Springs, Fla. (nonprofit) U.S. Army Armament … Continue reading

Posted in Management, Public Sector | Tagged | 1 Comment

ASQ Deming Medal to Peter Scholtes

I am happy that the ASQ Deming Medal was presented to Peter R. Scholtes: for his efforts to inspire others to transform organizations by helping managers understand how successful leadership of people requires an understanding of the interdependencies among knowledge … Continue reading

Posted in Deming, Management | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

2006 Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing

2006 Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing [the broken link was removed, I am continually amazed by organizations that do things like delete press releases, sigh, and a new waste created by poorly managing web resources] American manufacturing continues to … Continue reading

Posted in Lean thinking, Manufacturing | Tagged , | 2 Comments