Ray Stata Outstanding Contributor Award

Criteria: Contributes significantly to the intellectual development of CQM's knowledge, actively participates in the research and development of new approaches and materials, and makes a significant contribution to the CQM in time and documentation of learnings. Previous Ray Stata Outstanding Contributor Award winners:
Year	Name	Company	Citation
2005	The Technology and Product Strategy Study Group	Steve Patterson (Mercury Computer Systems), Walter Plante (Entegris), Nancy Confrey	For their contributions to the study group addressing the creation of a new problem-solving methodology based on the research of MIT Professor Rebecca Henderson.
2004	Greg Fischer	Dant Clayton Corporation	For his many contributions to the Louisville chapter, and the global CQM community, include his participation in the Business Leadership System development, his leadership of the Louisville Strategy Planners Users Group, and his participation in mutual learning.
2004	Mark Andreae	Clarke Detroit Diesel Allison	For his enthusiastic advocacy of CQM practices, through sharing his own company’s experiences. Mark has been instrumental in the adoption of CQM business practices by his fellow Diesel Allison dealers. He has been an early adopter and advocate of CQM practices, including the Business Leadership System. He is also CEO sponsor of Cincinnati’s Research Committee.
2003	J. Wickliffe Ach	Hixson Architects - Engineers - Interiors	For his leadership as Cincinnati chapter Chairman during the chapter's growth as a mutual learning community, playing a lead role in recruitment, retention, and mutual learning.
2003	M. Diane Burton	MIT Sloan School of Management	For her contributions to the Business Leadership System model, including her active participation in the research & development of both the conceptual framework and her field work at member companies.
2002	Sherwin Greenblatt	Bose Corporation	Sherwin has made many contributions to CQM over the years: participating in early adoption and development of CQM methods such as Concept Engineering and SCORE, sharing Process Improvement methods with the rest of the CQM community, and being an active and engaged member of the Board. This year, Sherwin was particularly generous with his time, guidance and support in working with us to redefine our Business Model, including a number of chapter visits on CQM's behalf.
2001	Russell L. Ackoff	Interact	Russ serves on the Board of Directors of Center for Quality of Management. His strategic planning concepts have been adapted and used by many CQM members in the past decade.
2000	Ann Gray	Harvard Graduate School of Business	For her work in developing Mastering Business Complexity.
1999	Eric Bergemann	CQM	For bringing CQM knowledge to the Internet on the CQM member website.
1998	Toby Woll	CQM	For her work in guiding and developing CQM through its formative years.
1997	Christina Hepner Brodie	CHB Consulting	For her work in Concept Engineering^TM
1996	Warren Harkness	Bose Corporation	For his work with Idealized Design.
1996	Robert Stasey	Analog Devices	For his work translating Hoshin Planning into the common language of CQM members.
1996	Richard Paynting	Bose Corporation	For his work with Concept Engineering.
1996	Gary Burchill	U.S. Navy	For his work in integrating CQM and Idealized Design approaches through the use of various tools from Systems Dynamics and TQM.
1993	John Petrolini	Teradyne	For his many contributions to CQM, including the development of the 9 Steps method.
1993	Gary Burchill	U.S. Navy	For his work in development of Concept Engineering^TM
1993	Dennis Gleason	Varian Associates	For his work with Goal Deployment.
1992	David Walden	Bolt Beranek & Newman Inc.	For his outstanding contributions to the Center in its first years of development.
1992	Shoji Shiba	University of Tsukuba	For his outstanding contributions to the Center in its first years of development.
1992	Ron Santella	Genrad (at the time of his award)	For his outstanding contributions to the Center in its first years of development.