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.