INTERNATIONAL TEAM
EXCELLENCE AWARD
Get the feedback you can use.
Get the recognition you deserve.
HELP YOUR
ORGANIZATION ACHIEVE ...
Customer Satisfaction
Innovation
Profitability
Increased Employee Motivation
Teamwork
Recognizing and celebrating high-performance
teams that epitomize the ASQ vision of a global
community using quality concepts, technology,
and tools to improve themselves and their world.
Some of the world’s largest corporations
showcase their successful projects at ASQ’s
World Conference on Quality and Improvement.
ASQ’s Team Excellence is the world’s
premier team recognition program—
showcasing teams from organizations
large and small for their achievements
in improving business performance.
Thousands of teams worldwide
have participated in this leading
process, saving their companies and
organizations millions by creating
efficiencies and reducing waste.
Teams from Argentina, Germany,
Japan, South Korea, Thailand,
United Arab Emirates, United
States, and many more have
been recognized and celebrated
for epitomizing the use of quality
concepts, technology, and tools to
improve themselves and their world!
WHY YOUR TEAM
SHOULD PARTICIPATE IN ITEA
LEARN
Study other teams and benchmark
your team’s efforts.
SHARE
Showcase and gain recognition
for your organization’s continuous
improvement process.
BENCHMARK
See how your team measures up
against the best of the best in quality
processes from around the world!
RECOGNITION
Promote employee recognition
and motivate staff to embrace
quality practices throughout
your organization.
OTHER BENEFITS OF PARTICIPATION
•Improves business performance.
•Reinforces organizational values.
•Supports self-assessment
and improvement.
•Encourages workgroups to
excel through organized, fact based analysis and structured
decision-making practices.
•Provides insight into achievement
levels relative to the ASQ International
Team Excellence Award criteria.
•Stimulates participation and
provides opportunities for
meaningful contribution in the
success of the enterprise.
•Exposes your team’s strengths
and opportunities for improvement
through the feedback report.
•Strengthens relationships with
partners/customers.
•Makes work fun!
ASQ’S INTERNATIONAL TEAM
EXCELLENCE AWARD PROCESS
Preliminary Round
STEP 1 – Identify project(s) completed
in the last two years that achieved
measurable results for submission.
This award process is open to teams
from all over the world.
STEP 2 – Select up to five entries
from any participating site or location
and complete the Intent to Submit
form by early July.
STEP 3 – Create a voiceover
PowerPoint presentation that
describes your completed project
and ensure that it is aligned with
ASQ’s International Team Excellence
Award criteria.
STEP 4 – Complete the online entry
form and submit payment—due in
early September.
Final Round
STEP 1 – Qualified teams (from
the preliminary-round entry process)
are notified in early December of
selection for the final round.
STEP 2 – Teams confirm their
participation to present live at
ASQ’s World Conference on
Quality and Improvement.
STEP 3 – Teams upload final-round
presentation materials and complete
registration by March.
STEP 4 – Teams receive scoresheet/
feedback report from ASQ.
STEP 5 – Live presentations, recognition, benchmarking, learning,
and sharing best practices at
ASQ’s World Conference.
TO LEARN MORE:
800-248-1946 x2104
(USA and Canada)
+1-414-274-2104
(all others locations)
[email protected]
asq.org/team-excellence
HOW MUCH DOES
PARTICIPATION COST?
$699*
Fee per entry
This fee goes toward the cost
of administering the award process.
$799*
$699*
Conference registration fees per team presenter
Early bird by mid- to late March
This fee includes attendance at ASQ’s
World Conference on Quality and Improvement.
*Rates subject to change.
“ASQ’s International Team Excellence
Award Process provides an excellent
opportunity for organizations such as
General Motors to showcase ‘Best of
the Best’ quality improvement projects
in a global platform. This forum also
provides a great read-across and benchmarking opportunity for organizations.
General Motors will continue to participate
and leverage the ASQ ITEA Process.”
Kush K. Shah
Manager, Global Electrification Quality
General Motors
“By participating in the ASQ International
Team Excellence Award Process, ABInBev
Metal Container has been able to benchmark our teams against some of the best
in the world. As a result, we have been
able to identify and implement improvements to our team systems. In addition,
the ITEA Process has become an important
form of recognition for our employees
who make significant contributions to
our business through their participation
on improvement teams.”
Don MacGavin
Zone Management Systems Specialist
Anheuser-Busch InBev/Metal Container Corp.
“Continuous improvement and problem solving
are key business priorities for Coca-Cola Iberia.
ASQ’s International Team Excellence Award
provides our company an excellent opportunity
to show what we are doing today to meet
our gold standard: ‘Perfect product, trusted
everywhere.’ During the ITEA Process, our
team has shared and improved knowledge.
The five ITEA criteria helped us tell our story
from the project selection to the improvement
opportunity implementation and follow-up.
The passion and engagement showed by
the team during the project and the results
achieved with the improvement opportunity
implementation are, in fact, considered a
huge success for our organization.”
Silvia Arribas Vitón
Suppliers Q&E Manager
The Coca-Cola Company
(Iberia, Spain Business Unit)
“The ASQ ITEA Process criterion and subcriterion are utilized as a foundation means
to establish a high-level project management
template. The ASQ ITEA template is also
utilized to measure and document project
results. Ultimately, our project results have
been outstanding.”
Ron Gill
Technical Lead Manufacturing Engineer
C-17 Fuselage, The Boeing Company
ASQ is a global community of people passionate
about quality, who use the tools, their ideas, and
expertise to make our world work better.