April 21st 2021, David Hutchins has been presented with the Lifetime Outstanding Contribution Award by the International Lean Six Sigma Institute. Announcing the award last week, the ILSSi said, “ILSSI is honoured to be able to present this award to David Hutchins for over 60 years of service to the advancement of Quality Management. David is acknowledged to be one of the worlds leading authorities in the Quality Sciences and Quality Management. David had worked with many global leaders of industry as well as representing Dr Joseph Juran from 1983 until he retired from international travel in 1993. David also worked with Professor Kaoru Ishikawa and had meetings with W. Edwards Deming and Dr Armand Feigenbaum on many occasions at international conventions. Congratulations David from everyone at ILSSI and around the world. We wish you many more good years”.
Overwhelmed to receive the award, David Hutchins commented “to all of you who made the decision to make this award, I cannot thank you enough. Recognition is always one of the greatest pleasures in life but recognition by ones own peers, is one of the greatest and most respected. Of all my treasured memories of the gurus you have mentioned, and so many more wonderful quality practitioners from around the World, one memory that particularly comes to mind now, I learned from working with Dr Juran, who both lived and worked to age 103, is that he claimed not to distinguish between work and pleasure. With friends such as all of you, why would I ever want to give up. Thank you so much. This award will be greatly treasured”.
