performance excellence award for operations only?

If the operations area has completed a particularly successful Lean Six Sigma project in the past year, they may want to consider entering it in the Largest-Breakthrough Improvement Project category in the iSixSigma Live! Awards. To learn more, visit http://live.isixsigma.com/awards/breakthroughprojects.html.
Award finalists will be showcased by iSixSigma.com and be recognized at an awards breakfast at the iSixSigma Live! Summit & Awards, Feb. 1-4 in Miami.
Kirsten Terry, senior editor, iSixSigma

iSixSigma’s Largest-Breakthrough Improvement Project awards look at individual projects based on the following criteria:
Project must fundamentally change the way a process works
Project must use Six Sigma or Lean Six Sigma methodologies
Project must have been started on or after January 1, 2008
Must show “breakthrough” improvement in one or more of the following ways:

Reduction in defects (90% or more)
Increase in process sigma level (minimum 2-sigma increase)
Financial benefit (minimum $250,000 AND 5x or more return on investment)
Project must be completed (control phase completed) no later than project submission
This is a chance to be recognized for improvements made to transactional processes within the operations area.

MBB, It sounds more like a big ego problem with your Client than anything else. Since any award would likely not have much value beyond the ego factor, then pretty much any known organization will suffice. Stan, in his real life, is well known in the industry and I am sure, as he has indicated, he will be glad to give you an award for the right price. Your Ops group can then put it on the wall and claim that theirs is as big as the one from JD Power. My suggestion is for them to pack up their ego and use the money they would have wasted on the award to lower their rates for all their unemployed customers.As for your comments on ISS. ISS does not promote nor endorse any of the many certification granting organizations that advertise on the site. They are a business and as such, rely on advertising income as a major source of their revenue. Behind the scenes, the leaders of ISS have worked with some of the industry’s leaders to try and develop standards and common certification approaches. Unfortunately, this would hurt many who advertise here so its got them between a rock and a hard place. You also sound fearful since you don’t seem to trust the judgment of your students and Clients to see through the crap. Possibly you are threatened should they find you lacking when discovering someone else on this site.

MBB,I am confused. You state that Isixsigma provides no value but you
came here for advice??So you only like part of the site and not the whole site. It is like
getting an award for part of the company and ignoring the rest of
the company…. mmm!Not attacking you personally, just the logic in your thought
process.

How does having such an award make things better for the customer? For the company? Will that award attract a single new customer, or add a dollar to the company’s cashflow?What about all the non-value added activity that will be required to apply for that award?Sounds like the “award” is an ego-feeding proposition, nothing more. I’m with Stan – for the right price, we can give the client a beautiful award, suitable for framing. I’ll even throw in a commemorative plate, sure to increase in value.

mbb,
If you think this website is a threat to SS then you are completely clueless. This site has not created a certification mill. Industry has created the certification mill. They want it and someone will supply it. This is called capitalism, free markets, etc. This country was more or less built on it.
It must be entertaining to watch you figure out root cause. I am sure your lack of endorsement has been devastating.
Just my opinion.