Join Arizona Quality Alliance in recognizing the Recipients of the 2011 Arizona Performance Excellence Award.
The Arizona Performance Excellence Award Program recognizes Arizona organizations for excellence in quality and performance. The program – modeled after the Malcolm Baldrige Award criteria – provides not only an opportunity for recognition, but also valuable feedback on where an organization is positioned on the quality continuum.
The 2011 Performance Excellence Award Recipients are:
Showcase in Excellence Awards*:
- Avnet Logistics – “5S Organizational Process”
- Deer Valley Unified School District – “Utility Management Process”
- Laboratory Sciences of Arizona at Banner Boswell Medical Center – “Laboratory Turnaround Time for STAT Laboratory Tests for Emergency Department Patients”
- Maricopa County Adult Probation Department – “Adult Education Program”
- Maricopa County Department of Transportation – “Scoreboard Process”
- Rio Salado College – “Peer-to-Peer Plagiarism Detection System”
- University of Phoenix – “Student Appeals Center”
“AQA is proud to continue its efforts in assisting Arizona organizations to achieve operational excellence. We are celebrating our 19th anniversary of the Arizona Performance Excellence Award Program, formerly called the Arizona State Quality Awards Program, one of the best methodologies
available to develop a higher level of organizational performance.”
– Karen Shepard, Executive Director of AQA
Applications for the 2012 program will be available in late Feb. 2012.
* The Showcase in Excellence Award recognizes organizations for specific process excellence.
This program allows organizations to focus on each of the processes and build toward a complete quality implementation. Organizations may apply for any organizational process they believe is exceptional and are encouraged to relate the process to one of six categories aligned with the Baldrige criteria: Leadership; Strategic Planning; Customer Focus; Measurement, Analysis and Knowledge Management; Workforce Focus; or Operational Focus.
