The Quality Texas Foundation, administrator of Texas’ premier annual performance excellence award, announced today that K&N Management-Mighty Fine Burgers/Rudy’s BBQ Austin, Raytheon SAS Advanced Products Center, and Baylor Regional Medical Center of Plano have been selected as recipients of the 2010 Texas Award for Performance Excellence. These organizations have been identified as role models based on their performance using the Baldrige Criteria.

 

K&N Managementis the licensed developing entity for the Austin area Rudy’s “Country Store” and Bar-B-Q and the creator of Mighty Fine Burgers, Fries and Shakes. Through its two concepts, K&N Management consistently delivers a fresh taste profile using high-quality ingredients in products that are delivered quickly and accurately by friendly team members in a clean environment. It has a passionate belief that quality is everything and puts quality first in its people, products, and facilities. Founded in 1993 by two partners, it has continued to grow by continuously reinventing its processes to be the best it can be in everything it does.

 

Driven by excellence, the K&N Management organizational culture focuses primarily on guest delight. Key business drivers in the success of K&N Management include: food quality, speed of service, cleanliness, hospitality, people, value, and originality.

 

As part of a large aerospace and defense company, Raytheon SAS Advanced Products Center (APC) is a key manufacturer of advanced products for space and airborne systems. It provides technologies, subsystems and components that support Raytheon’s various targeted global markets. With a strong employee focus, it was named one of the top 25 best places to launch a career by Business Week in 2009. The organization places a strong emphasis on customer results. In 2009, Raytheon APC was named one of the top 10 plants in the United States by Industry Week.

 

Raytheon APC’s core competencies include a highly skilled workforce, innovation and development, and design for producibility. These core competencies enable it to deliver customer solutions while maintaining reliability and affordability.

 

Baylor Regional Medical Center of Plano (BRMCP) is a subsidiary of the Baylor Health Care System. Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Health Care System exists to serve all people through exemplary healthcare, education, research and community service. Licensed as a 112-bed acute care hospital, BRMCP has served the primarily adult population in North Texas since 2004 and offers a wide variety of service lines to support community needs including digestive systems, orthopedic surgery, pulmonary, oncology, imaging services and the emergency department.

 

The organizational culture is built from the Mission, Vision and Values illustrated in the Circle of Care established through the Baylor system. BRMCP operates on the core values of Integrity, Servanthood, Quality, Innovation, and Stewardship as it strives to achieve the vision of being distinguished as the premier provider of patient-centered care.

 

Patterned after the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award criteria and process, the Texas Award for Performance Excellence is an annual recognition of Texas organizations that have achieved performance excellence and applied outstanding quality principles in their day-to-day operations. The award is presented to organizations that serve as role models for quality, customer satisfaction, and performance excellence in the state of Texas. This year’s award will be presented on June 7.

 

 

 

Three additional organizations are recognized for their Achievement in Organizational Excellence with well-deployed, effective, systematic approaches to organizational management with good performance levels and trends evaluated against industry standards. Those organizations include Baylor Medical Center at Waxahachie, South Texas Veterans Healthcare System, and Samsill Corporation.

 

 

The Texas Quest for Excellence Conference will be held June 7-8 and will feature presentations from current and former TAPE and Baldrige award recipients. Detailed information regarding the Texas Awards Ceremony and Texas Quest Conference is available on the Quality Texas website at www.texas-quality.org. Click her for event details.

 

 

 

 

 

Demonstrates a sound, balanced approach to organizational management and performance improvement.

 

TMAC-Metroplex

 

Kohl’s Department Stores-Credit Division

 

Fort Bend Independent School District

 

Driscoll Children’s Hospital

 

 

 

Demonstrates good performance and commitment to a systematic approach to organizational management and performance improvement.

 

The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Division of Clinical Support Services

 

Warm Springs Rehabilitation Hospital of San Antonio

Center for Wound Care & Hyperbaric Medicine

 

Visiting Nurse Association of Texas

 

Methodist Health System

 

Dallas Baptist University College of Business

 

 

 

Demonstrates deployment of systematic approaches to organizational management.

 

Texas Property and CasualtyInsurance Guaranty Association

 

Our Children’s House at Baylor

 

Goodwill Industries of Central Texas

 

St. Philip’s College

 

San Antonio College

 

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The Quality Texas Foundation, a non-profit Texas corporation, focuses on an assessment and feedback process, education, training, and recognition to help businesses, schools, hospitals, non-profits, and government agencies improve performance. The Foundation administers the Texas Award for Performance Excellence program (based on the Baldrige Criteria), the state’s highest recognition for Quality. The Foundation, with offices located in Dallas, coordinates more than 300 volunteers from all areas of industry, government, education, non-profit and health care who work together to assess and promote quality and performance excellence throughout the state.

 

For more information about Quality Texas, our education and training programs for improving organizational performance, becoming a Quality Texas Examiner, or to register for the upcoming events, visit our website at www.texas-quality.org or call the Quality Texas Foundation office at (214) 565-8550.