Process Excellence Awards 2008: Venturehaus hosts the Awards Ceremony, as ABN AMRO picks up the Financial Services prizes

For immediate release
London, 21st April 2008

The annual Process Excellence Awards were recently celebrated at the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre in London. With the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey providing the breathtaking backdrop to the evening, the ceremony was always going to be impressive, and the award winners were understandably delighted with their achievements.

Venturehaus was proud to be the sponsor of the gala evening and of the Award for Best Operational Excellence Project in Financial Services. This annual event includes awards for process excellence achievements across a number of categories and sectors, including Best Innovative Project and the prestigious Best Improvement Programme, to name but a few. Alan Noble, Managing Director of Venturehaus, was the Master of Ceremonies and took great satisfaction in seeing the wide variety of industries and sectors that were represented on the star-studded stage throughout the evening:

“It’s an honour to be able to present these awards to such deserving recipients. Process Excellence isn’t a one-time, one-result initiative, it takes dedicated passionate people to be able to turn a good company into a great one, and I’m delighted to be first to congratulate them.”

Most satisfying for Alan, of course, was that Venturehaus’ client ABN AMRO picked up the Honorary Mention in the Best Operational Excellence Project in Financial Services category, narrowly missing out on the top honour to HSBC India. The Honorary Mention award was received by Afolayan Ayoola Taylor, ABN AMRO’s Head of Business Process Improvement, and Tessa de Flines, from the Business Process Improvement Centre of Excellence. Tessa remarks, "It is an honour for ABN AMRO to have received an award for the Personal Loans project. It demonstrates the hard work that has gone into delivering benefits to our customers and to the business. The project team truly deserve this recognition for driving best practice change in their organisation."

And finally congratulations to HSBC India as Winners of Venturehaus’ award for Best Operational Excellence Project in Financial Services. Accepting the award on behalf of his team for their “Project Quick Collect”, Kundan Sinha, HSBC India’s Vice President of Six Sigma, summarised the whole meaning of these awards when he told us “It’s indeed a pleasure for the HSBC team to be given an opportunity to share the findings and success stories of our projects. It’s a great motivator for all of us after winning this award and it feels like a great achievement.”

About Venturehaus:

Venturehaus assists Financial Institutions in achieving Operational Excellence in their businesses. Venturehaus is a specialist management consultancy which assists companies in Financial Services in achieving Operational Excellence across their businesses. We do this through applying a combination of Lean and Six Sigma, within our Design for Operational Excellence™ framework, supplemented by our own deep operational experience in the Financial Services industry. In addition to our consulting expertise, we are the market’s leading provider of Lean and Six Sigma training. Venturehaus delivers Value through the achievement of Operating Leverage across the business, and in transferring knowledge and skills to staff within our client companies. For more information please visit www.venturehaus.com or email carol.james@venturehaus.com