The Inaugural Lean Six Sigma Academy Awards
for Lean Six Sigma Improvement Projects

To be presented at the Lean Six Sigma Academy Annual Conference on 9 December 2008.

The Awards seek to recognise successful improvement projects using Lean Six Sigma.

Entries can be for a project team or for an individual Green or Black Belt and applicants need to submit a description of their project through no more than 1,500 words plus 10 PDF or PowerPoint slides.

There are three broad Award Categories for teams or individuals from:

• Large Commercial Organisation (>250 employees)
• Public Sector
• Small Enterprise (<250 employees)

There are three main criteria used in assessing award applicants:

• Understanding the problem
• Applying the right Lean and/or Six Sigma tools
• Achieving bottom line results

The slide show provides the opportunity to present a ‘storyboard’ describing the project. Where the DMAIC framework has been used applicants might wish to allocate one or two slides to describe the key aspects of these phases. Alternatively applicants might wish to present their projects in line with the above criteria or in some other way that is easy for the judging panel to follow.

Entries should be submitted to BQF by 31st August for initial assessment. Short listed candidates will be invited to present their projects to the Academy Judging Panel, leading to the identification of three finalists. Finalists will then be asked to present their projects at the Lean Six Sigma Academy's Annual Conference on the 9th December when the winners will be announced.

Click here for an information brochure including an application form in pdf format (329KB). Please note - applications for the 2008 awards are now closed. For further information, including details of the Conference, please contact us by phone: Tel: 020 7654 5000 or by e-mail: academy@bqf.org.uk.