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Scottish Awards for Business Excellence

What are the Scottish Awards for Business Excellence?

The Scottish Awards for Business Excellence are the most rigorous and prestigious business awards in Scotland, allowing your organisation to assess how well you are doing and to benchmark your achievements against other organisations. Entering Quality Scotland’s awards scheme - The Scottish Awards for Business Excellence - gives you the opportunity both to gain this valuable feedback and to win an award that is recognised across the UK and Europe as a mark of outstanding Business Excellence.

Who can apply?

The awards are open to any Scottish organisation from the private, public or voluntary sector that has been operational for at least three years. You can apply at any stage of your journey towards business excellence and, although assessment is undertaken using the EFQM Excellence model, you don’t need to be using this within your organisation to be eligible.

The Benefits

  • Fully understand the current performance of your organisation and identify areas for improvement that will deliver bottom line benefit
  • Receive written and face to face feedback on your application from an experienced team of assessors
  • Potentially gain recognition across Scotland and Europe for your approach to Business Excellence

How do I apply?

For more details on how to apply for the Scottish Awards for Business Excellence 2012, click here.  Please note the dealine for applications using the traditional Annual Award Cycle approach is 3rd December, 2011. 

For further details or to request the Application Guidelines, please contact Ann Pike on 0131 556 2333 or ann.pike@qualityscotland.co.uk.   

Key Dates for 2011 - 2012

To ensure you don't miss out on your chance to take part in the 2012 Scottish Awards for Business Excellence, please take note of the following key dates:

  • Call for Assessors - July / August
  • Submission Writers' Workshop - 16th August, 2011
  • R4E applicants confirming their participation - 4th November, 2011
  • Awards and Classical applications to QS - December, 2011

Sponsorship 2012

Are you a supporter of Excellence in Scotland? If so, check out our new Sponsorship opportunities for 2012!! Click here.

Academy of Winners

Download a list of Previous Winners (pdf) of the Scottish Awards for Business Excellence here.