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Winning
Applications:
Process Achievement Award Winning applications
from the Forum Archive.
The Process Achievement Awards honor applications of KT rational process
that have yielded outstanding results. Read Forum articles by the Program
Leaders involved in these award-winning efforts.
Preserving
the Production Run
By Geoff Edelman, Kepner-Tregoe Energy Group
The production function of every organization faces threats and
challenges to ongoing operations. Successful implementation of an innovative
plan can be a significant rallying point and a major source of pride
for the staff. This was especially true for a nuclear power plant in
New York.
Corning
Brings Rational Process to Shanghai
Corning Environmental Technologies in Shanghai ranks among the highest-quality,
highest-yield factories in the Corning network. Installing Kepner-Tregoe
rational process thinking has been a critical factor in the plant’s
success. It is not merely a tool; it is a way of thinking and working.
Grand Winners 2004 International Process Achievement Awards.
111 Projects and 2 Weeks: Thomson
Tube Operations in Piaseczno (Poland) Puts Project Management to the
Challenge
This 2003 Process Achievement Award-winning plant used KT Project Management
to reduce annual plant closing for capital improvement and other projects
by a week and accelerated the ramp up to full production.
Bringing
Systematic Process to a Rapidly Changing Environment. The Port of
Seattle describes how rational process allowed teams to shoulder a massive
collection of airport expansion projects and move from confusion to
clarity. 2000 Award-winner.
KT
Project Management Mission Brings Success to Space Operation. When
NASA required Lockheed Martin Space Operations to manage their own projects,
over 550 people were trained in project management and a new approach
to business resulted in increased award and incentive fees, zero non-conformances
in an ISO 9000 audit for the first time ever, and a reduction in personnel
attrition rates. 2000 award-winner.
Betting
on Rational Process. Aristocrat Technologies, is based in Australia
and is the second largest supplier of gaming machines in the world.
AT used Managing Involvement and Decision Analysis to outsource and
select a supplier, saving $2.12 million/year. 2000 award-winner.
Driving
Commitment and Change at ADAC Plastics. Case studies of ADAC's internal
Process Achievement Award-winners for using Recognize a Problem to help
launch a $15 million additional business, Select a Fix and Potential
Problem Analysis to achieve $105K in process improvements, and Decision
Analysis to involve all departments in selecting a new enterprise software
system. 2000 award-winner.
Less
is More: How Ricoh Corporation Spent Less for More and Better Insurance
Coverage. This global corporation used Decision Analysis to re-evaluate
insurance coverage and suppliers after acquisition of five new companies,
saving $1.3 million in the first year. 2000 award-winner.
Great
Expectations. Two human resource professionals at Canon Virginia
completely rebuilt the company's performance management system (including
the performance review system) using Engineering the Performance System.
Grand Prizewinner of 1997 Process Achievement Awards.
Using
Process to Find a Needle in a Haystack. Using Problem Analysis,
a team discovered the source of a problem that had been nagging Siemens
Regensburg for ten years. Savings to the company were $2.8 million.
1997 award-winner.
Glaxo
Wellcomes Rational Process. Glaxo Wellcome used extensive Problem
Solving and Decison Making skill development in its Product Supply division
as a part of a continuous improvement program. Problem Solving and Decison
Making became a common language for the entire organizations. 1997 award-winner
Fixing
Balers on the Bayou: Uniroyal Chemical's Team Approach to Success.
Uniroyal Chemical recounts a fix provided to a baler through a unique
use of a project path. Grand Prize winner of 1995 Process Achievement
Awards.
A
Novel Approach at Laguna Beach School District. A school district
avoided potential book banning by using Problem Solving and Decison
Making skills to show how the conclusion to keep the book was reached.
1995 award-winner.
A
Secret in Memphis. Memphis Light Gas and Water used Decision Analysis
to choose a vendor to install a very expensive computer tracking system.
1995 award-winner.
Manchester
Plastics Team Turns Defect To "Gold" in Customer Relationship.
Manchester Plastics' problem resolution prevented a potential $3.5 million
loss in warranty claims and field complaints and won the confidence
of the client. 1995 award-winner.
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