NEW DELHI, India: Following the annual success of the global Process Excellence awards programme across the US, Europe, APAC & Australasia, IQPC's PEX Network recently announced the addition of an Indian based Awards programme.

The Process Excellence Awards have been established to honor, recognise and celebrate projects and programmes that truly demonstrate world-class best practices and are judged against a global benchmark for excellence.

This announcement follows significant growth in the PEX Network community from across the Indian region and an increase in entries from Indian owned companies in the global awards categories.

The Indian Awards programme will launch with the 3 most popular global categories:

    
    - Best Process Improvement Programme
    - Best Process Improvement Project in Service & Transaction
    - Best Process Improvement Project in Manufacturing

The Awards programme is now open for entries, with the initial submission deadline set for the 8th July. Further information on the awards programme and application process can be found on http://www.processexcellenceindia.com

Regional Indian judges include:

    
    - Debashis Sarkar, Global Champion & Head (Asia-Pacific), Avery Dennison
    - Murtaza Poonawala, Head Business Excellence, State Street Syntel
      Services Pvt Ltd
    - Sri Badrinath Balakrishna, General Manager - Business Excellence at 
      Jubilant Organosys Limited
    - Mr. Ashutosh Pandey, Global IT, Quality & Process Manager, Nokia 
      Siemens Networks
    - Jacob Jacob, Head Quality and Open Source Strategy, Motorola Solutions

Global judges represented include:

    
    - Pankaj Aggarwal, Regional CEO/Director, Indus Towers Limited
    - Jeff Ayland, Head of Offer to Create, RS Componants
    - Roger Cliffe, Former Director Quality, Vodafone

Applications are marked based on the global judging criteria for each award category ensuring that the approach is fully standardised and judged against the international benchmark. Following initial submissions, 3-8 finalists will be selected per category with all shortlisted applicants required to attend a further face-to-face judging round. Face-to-face interviews and the awards ceremony will be hosted on the 22nd September at IQPC's Lean Six Sigma & Process Improvement Summit, India, New Delhi.

About the Process Excellence Awards

Hosted globally and recognised internationally, IQPC's Process Excellence Awards programme reflects a world recognised benchmark in Lean Six Sigma and Process Excellence. Now offered for India, the awards offer the chance for Indian businesses to align and profile their greatest success stories amongst the global leaders in Business Excellence.

Previous global awards winners include: Allstate, Blue Cross Blue Shields, Capgemini Business Solutions, DHL, Firstsource Solutions, Lloyds Register, LSG Sky Chefs, Motorola, Reliance Industries, Repsol YPF, Simplex Grinnell, Singtel, Sutherland Global Services, TCS, United Nations, VFS Global Services, Wal-Mart, Xerox.

About PEX Network

Process Excellence Network: A division of IQPC, (formerly known as Six Sigma IQ) provides access to a treasure chest of relevant content for Process Excellence practitioners.

Providing critical knowledge about the development of Process Excellence including Business Process Management (BPM), Lean, Change Management, Operational Excellence, Six Sigma, Risk Management, Customer Experience and more, we provide the forum where key industry experts and organisations share their experience, knowledge and tools, and practitioner peers connect with one another all over the world, both face-to-face and online.

The Process Excellence Network is enhanced by an active online community of professional peers as well and face-to-face Summits and events that take place across the globe. Collectively we help you discover what the best are doing to get measurable results through Process Excellence and to seek actionable solutions to specific process problems through worldwide mass collaboration.

In short, Process Excellence Network, (often known as PEX Network) enables individuals and organisations to advance their process excellence journey by increasing idea sources, widening contacts and friendships and participating in ongoing formal and informal learning opportunities. http://www.PEXNetwork.com

    
    Contact details:

    Eleanor Head
    Marketing Manager
    IQPC Middle East
    +9714-446-4251
    eleanor.head@iqpc.com