The Premier Cross-Industry Gathering of Business Transformation & Operational Excellence Industry Leaders & Senior-Executives.
London: April 1, 2017
The Business Transformation & Operational Excellence Awards announces its 2017 winners
The winners for all categories and the special awards were announced at The Business Transformation & Operational Excellence Awards Gala Reception on Wednesday March 22, held at The Four Seasons Resort At Walt Disney World Resort, Orlando, Florida.
Devender Malhotra, Vice President & Chief Quality Officer at Wipro, received the People Award for Deployment Leader of the Year. This award is given to the person who has lead the organizations through successful Operational Excellence deployments, and delivered the most outstanding results for their organization.
The Platinum Award for Organizational Excellence went to the Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences award winners Sanofi Pasteur, with the Platinum Award for the best Operational Excellence Project went to the Best Achievement in Business Transformation winner, Philips lighting.
Honors were given to a total of 12 organizations for adopting and deploying Operational Excellence projects & processes to achieve significant organizational improvements.
Roll Call of Winners and Finalists
Deployment Leader of The Year Award.
Best Achievement in Cultural Transformation to deliver a high performing Operational Excellence culture.
Best Achievement in Business Transformation
Best Achievement in Digital Transformation
Best Achievement of Operational Excellence in Pharmaceuticals & Life Science
Best Achievement of Operational Excellence in Oil & Gas, Power & Utilities
Best Achievement in Technology Enabled Process Automation.
Best Achievement in Operational Excellence to deliver an outstanding Value Creation or Innovation Execution project.
Best Achievement of Operational Excellence in Manufacturing
Best Achievement of Operational Excellence in Technology & Communications
Best Achievement of Operational Excellence in Healthcare
The 2017 Finalists include:
ZS Associates, MassMutual, Cyient, EDP Renewables, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Arrow Electronics & more.
To view the winning entry case studies and see the full list of finalists by category, please visit btoes.com from March 27.
The accompanying Business Transformation & Operational Excellence World Summit is the largest annual gathering of senior Operational Excellence Professionals. Keynote speakers included: Former Chief Innovation Officer Omar Hatamleh of NASA, Priya Anant, Director of Global Vendor Operations, Trust & Safety at Google, and Jeff Hastie & David Margil of BOSE Corporation.
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Notes to Editors
View photographs for use from the Awards: http://btoes.com/btoes17-awards-picture-gallery
The independent judging panel for the 2017 program includes:
Director, Global Vendor Operations, Trust & Safety, Google
Global Head of Business Transformation Office and Zero Based Budgeting, NCR Corporation
Global Director of Lean Six Sigma, Jabil
Director of LCI, LEGO
Lean Champion, Book Author and Shingo Prize Winner, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Associate Director, Research Informatics, Christiana Care Health System
Senior Business Improvement Lead, Turner Broadcasting System
Head of Productivity, PBC, Product Mgmt., Process Systems Eng. & Ops Excellence, Global HyCO, Praxair, Inc.
Vice President and Director, Business Excellence, Black & Veatch Corporation
Executive Director of Performance Improvement and Outpatient Services , Hospital Sisters Health System
Sr. Director, Global Business Excellence & Customer Insights, eBay
Associate Vice President, Continuous Improvement and Consulting, Guardian Life
Vice President Operations, U.S. Synthetic
Head of Process Excellence, Bridgewater Associates
VP Process Excellence & innovation, Verizon
Director of Lean Transformation, NCH Healthcare System
Executive Director, Operational Excellence, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Global Manufacturing and Supply
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