KT ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF THE 2007 INTERNATIONAL RATIONAL PROCESS ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

Princeton, NJ, USA, December 2007—Kepner-Tregoe, Inc. (KT) announced the 2007 winners of the Kepner-Tregoe International Process Achievement Awards. Grand Winners are IBM, J.R. Simplot Company, and American Mitsuba, CME.  Other winning companies are Bristol Myers Squibb, Brooks Automation, Cargill, CSR Building Products, Johnson Controls, Tokyo Electron Europe, and Schering Plough Singapore. Each year the awards honor individuals and organizations that have achieved outstanding results using KT rational processes. 

“Our clients are able to measure the value that process delivers to their jobs, business units, and organizations,” commented Andrew Graham, CEO of Kepner-Tregoe. KT focuses on collaborating with clients to achieve rapid results and to sustain improvements that create enduring value. The winners demonstrated this with documented applications of our systematic processes that delivered dramatic, measurable achievements.
 
The 2007 winners saved millions of dollars using Kepner-Tregoe processes and achieved targeted goals such as improved customer support and satisfaction, increased production, better safety, reduced costs, faster time to market, and more. KT helps organizations address key business issues by taking a rational thinking approach that consistently yields higher value results. Some past winners include American Honda, Cement Australia, Cisco, Corning Shanghai, FedEx Express, Holcim Philippines, Inc., Lockheed Martin, Motorola Arabia, Siemens, Société Ivoirienne de Raffinage Abidjan, and Sun Microsystems.

This year a new CIO award was introduced, honoring  innovative use of process. The award went to David Broenen, of Cisco Systems for his innovative use of process while serving on a jury.

The annual awards are made for outstanding use of KT processes in two categories. The Single-Use Category is for the resolution of a single, key issue using KT process/es; and the Organizational-Use Category is for positive and sustained organizational change through the integration of KT processes. Judging criteria include dollar results and other tangible and non-tangible results. Additional criteria include the significance of the results to the business unit or organization, the scope of input of participants, and the degree of management involvement.

The KT International Process Achievement Awards were held bi-annually beginning in 1995 and annually since 2000. They are sponsored by Kepner-Tregoe (www.kepner-tregoe.com), a global organization renowned for its rational processes for problem solving, decision making, and project management. These processes provide logical and consistent approaches to tough business issues and are used by organizations worldwide to achieve measurable business results. Not dependent on a specific culture, technology, or other factor, Kepner-Tregoe processes are flexible tools that provide enduring value in today’s rapidly changing world.

2007 Grand Winners

Organizational-Use Category

IBM

J.R. Simplot Company

Single-Use Category

American Mitsuba, CME (in association with American Honda)

Winners

Bristol Myers Squibb

Brooks Automation

Cargill

CSR Building Products

Johnson Controls

Tokyo Electron Europe

Schering Plough Singapore

Innovation Award

David Broenen, Cisco