AWM celebrates Excellence Awards double
Advantage West Midlands is celebrating a double awards success, as the regional development agency was highly commended at the Midlands Excellence Awards 2009/10, and also achieved the award for most improved organisation.
The Excellence Awards measure organisational performance against a stringent set of European measures.
Mick Laverty, Chief Executive of Advantage West Midlands, said: “As an organisation that is working constantly to meet the needs of the region’s economy, it is important that we set ourselves the very highest professional standards.
“Working towards maintaining our Investors in Excellence status and competing in the Midlands Excellence Awards has been an excellent way of driving continuous improvement in our performance as an organisation.
“This is the third year we have entered the awards and we were very pleased to have been shortlisted once again as a finalist. Receiving the ‘highly commended’ acknowledgement is even better and recognises the hard work of our staff – our most important asset – as well as demonstrating that our commitment to continuous improvement is having a real impact on our performance.”
The Midlands Excellence award for most improved organisation recognises the business or public sector organisation which has achieved the highest increase in its score since the previous year’s awards.
Investors in Excellence is a national quality standard designed to promote continuous improvement within businesses and public sector organisations. In order to achieve Investors in Excellence, an organisation must demonstrate strong performance in all areas of its work including leadership, strategy, management and results.
