Governor’s Award for Quality and Performance Banner

The Governor recognizes teams and agencies that create significant, measurable, objectively verifiable improvements from the perspectives of:

  • Public Benefit: Safer workplaces, cleaner water, lower teen pregnancy rate, etc.
  • Customer Service: Faster turnaround time, more accurate payments, etc.
  • Financial Management: Lower costs, higher revenues, etc.
  • Internal Process Management: More permits per year, more transactions per day, etc.
  • Organizational Learning and Growth: More skills, better backup, increased responsiveness, etc.

Projects may take many forms, including:

  • Solving a Problem
  • Improving a Process
  • Introducing Innovative Approaches

Teams are nominated by their agencies and reviewed by a panel of Internal Quality Consultants. The internal panel selects as finalists those teams with significant results in at least two categories. Finalists are invited to present to a panel of judges drawn from business, industry, labor, management and the legislature, who select the recipients of the Governor’s Award for Quality and Performance.

A Governor’s Award in each individual category is made to those finalists who have achieved significant measurable and sustainable results in that category.

Fall 2004 Governor’s Award Winners

Spring 2004 Governor’s Award Winners

Fall 2003 Governor’s Award Winners

Spring 2003 Governor’s Award Winners

Fall 2002 Governor’s Award Winners

Previous 2002 Governor’s Award Winners

Prior to the fall of 2002, a panel of Internal Quality Consultants drawn from state agencies selected the winners of the Governor’s Award for Service and Quality Improvement. Previous winners may be viewed below:

April 2002
January 2002
January, April, July and October 2001
January, April, July and October 2000
January, April, July and October 1999
January, April, July and October 1998

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