The Global Six Sigma & Business Improvement Awards - www.tgssa.com - present you with a great opportunity to win recognition for the great work that you and your business excellence people are delivering to your healthcare organization, your patients and community.

"We are extremely excited to have received this recognition from WCBF for Best Emerging Business Improvement. I believe this terrific award recognizes that customers can depend on our ability to live our mission statement every day with on time delivery, lowest industry turn times, customer service of exceptional value, service and products of the highest quality.  Also, I'd like to compliment WCBF for their excellent recognition program."

Robert Weiner, President and Chief Executive Officer, PAS Technologies

Now in their fourth year, the Awards are given to the most outstanding organizational achievements through the deployment of business improvement programs.  To-date honours have been given to a total of 30 organizations across the globe.

The Awards are judged by a panel of independent business improvement experts and practitioners.  Each entry will be judged on the merits of the program implementation and results achieved against the organization's strategic objectives.

There are three types of awards categories for which you can enter:

• Organizational (6)- for organizational-wide business improvement excellence deployment
• Business Excellence (7) - for one business process excellence project within your organization
• People (4) - for individual excellence within your organization

There are also five Special Awards to highlight unique achievements from across all the category entrants.

Please visit The Global Six Sigma & Business Improvement Awards website - www.tgssa.com - to access the full list of categories and the rules of entry. You will also find there the case studies from the winners in 2006, 2007 and 2008 along with best practice examples of award winning entries and tips and techniques for making your entry stand out in the competition.

The closing deadline for this year's program is Friday June 5^th, 2009.   The Awards Ceremony will be held in conjunction with WCBF's Global Six Sigma, Lean and Business Improvement Summit in Orlando, FL on Wednesday October 14^th, 2009.  For information on the Summit please go to www.wcbf.com/quality/5099.

I look forward to your participation in this exciting and growing Awards program and please do contact me if I can provide further information as you prepare your entry.

Kind regards

Flora Hamilton

The Global Six Sigma and Business Improvement Awards

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E: flora.hamilton@wcbf.com