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News Release-For Immediate Release
 
Respected Management Pioneer Steven R. Covey Honored for Lifetime Contributions to Continuous Improvement Practices
Award that recognizes achievements in overall effectiveness in competitive Position, also honors a pioneer of organizational management
 
May 15, 2009, Ogden, Utah-The prestigious Robert E. Fox Awards were presented at the annual Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) Symposium held at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. The award's namesake, Robert E. Fox, was on hand to present the honors as well as deliver the keynote address at the symposium.

The United States Marine Corps' Maintenance Center Albany, Georgia, (MCA) received the 2009 Fox Award for not-for-profit organizations.  Colonel Gillan, Base Commander, also presented at the event.  MCA transformed an area of their base that was actually a cost center, and with no additional resources, dramatically improved it to the point that it became to a money making branch of the organization by contracting work for other branches of the government.
 
Azul-K, a soap manufacturer from Bogota, Columbia, was presented the Fox Award for outstanding applications of CPI methods in a for profit company.  Through the implementation and sustainment of continuous improvement techniques, and with minimal investment, Azul-K attained unprecedented growth of over 400% during a 10-year period, and is now a major player in it's industry.
 
A special Robert E. Fox Lifetime Achievement Award was presented, for contributions to the human side of process improvement strategies.  The Fox Awards selection committee felt it fitting to honor Dr. Steven R. Covey, PhD, for his extensive contribution to improving individual lives and organizations throughout the world.  The crowd was honored by an outstanding acceptance speech by Covey describing an essential component to lasting improvement efforts, Culture Change within an organization.
 
Scott F. Jensen, executive director of the CPI Symposiums, described Robert E. Fox as one of the grandfathers of operations improvement.  "Fox's involvement with continuous improvement efforts dates back to his early work with Dr. Taiichi Ohno at Toyota Motors (Lean), and Dr. Edwards Deming of the Total Quality Management revolution (Six Sigma).  In 1980, he was among the first to tell us what was happening in Japan and the need for our companies to improve, if they were going to survive.  He not only warned us of the competitive threat, but also by working with Dr. Eli Goldratt, helped develop the Theory of Constraints (TOC) as a viable response".
 
Many Process Improvement experts presented new innovations during the two-day event, which attracted an international audience of more than 250 executives and professionals.

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