The Shingo Prize is regarded as the premier operational excellence education, assessment and recognition program for North America. As part of the Shingo Prize mission and model, the Prize highlights the value of using lean/world-class operational excellence practices to attain world-class status.

MISSION: The mission of The Shingo Prize is to create excellence in organizations through the application of universal, self-evident principles of operational excellence and the alignment of management systems and improvement techniques throughout an entire organization.

VISION: Our vision is to be globally recognized as the premier Center for principle-based leadership in Operational Excellence and for providing the highest standard of excellence to which any organization may benchmark themselves and plan for improvement.

MODEL:

The Shingo Prize Model & Application Guidelines.pdf (4MB) (Revision 02/10/2009).

The Shingo Prize achievement criteria provide a framework for identifying and evaluating world-class operational competence and performance. The Shingo Prize achievement criteria generally do not prescribe one single best method, system, or route to attaining excellent-to-world-class status. Rather, each element of the criteria lists practices and techniques that might be incorporated to achieve a world-class level of quality, cost, delivery, and business results. Lean is clearly viewed as the best paradigm for achieving operational excellence.