Airport Authority To Receive Performance Excellence Award
The Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority has been named a 2009 Commitment Award winner in the annual Excellence in Tennessee recognition program administered by the Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence (TNCPE). The award will be presented during the 17th Annual Excellence in Tennessee Awards Banquet on Feb. 24, at the Franklin Marriott Cool Springs.

Through an annual evaluation and assessment process, TNCPE recognizes organizations that have achieved the highest standards of excellence in their operations and results. The program uses the Criteria for Performance Excellence established by the Baldrige National Quality Program as the evaluation tool.

Awards are presented in four categories: Interest Recognition (the beginning level), Commitment, Achievement, and the highest level — the Excellence Award.

“In the most difficult economic environment in more than 75 years, it’s the organizations that build and maintain excellent systems and procedures that endure,” said TNCPE President and CEO Katie Rawls. “All winners of 2009 TNCPE awards are putting those types of systems into place, and will thrive well into the future as a result.”

Since TNCPE was created in 1993, more than 1,050 organizations have progressed through one or more levels of achievement. A Board of Examiners made up of 145 experts in business, education, health care and government assessed this year’s applicants in seven categories: leadership; strategic planning; customer focus; measurement, analysis and knowledge management; work force focus; process management; and results.

Construction Award of Excellence
Congratulations to the MNAA and Bell and Associates for winning the Associated Builders and Contractors’ 2009 Construction Awards of Excellence for the Terminal Renovations and MUFIDS upgrade.

The Nashville Technology Council Awards
Congratulations to the MNAA and Vanessa Hickman, who were named finalists for Technology Company of the Year and CIO of the Year by the Nashville Technology Council. The awards recognize those individuals and companies whose success has helped grow Nashville and the surrounding areas into a hub for technology.