Sierra Global receives leadership in quality award in Paris

Sierra Global Network Private Limited, a leading telecommunication infrastructure development and managed services firm in Sri Lanka, has been awarded the prestigious ‘Leadership in Quality Award’ in Gold category by the Business Initiative Directions (BID) during their 16th annual global convention held in the Concorde La Fayette Hotel in Paris last week.

“This award is designed to recognise the prestige of the outstanding companies in the business world where this year’s ceremony was attended by companies from 74 countries, together with leaders from different business fields, professionals from the worlds of economics, quality experts, as well as academic personalities and representatives from the diplomatic corps,” said said Jose E. Prieto, Chairman and CEO of BID.

 “I have seen companies in the world grow in number, size and quality. I have had the opportunity to meet and speak personally with business leaders, scientists, politicians and marketing experts who have realised their ideas and made them into business success, achieving recognition by their peers.

“BID has positioned these entrepreneurs at the pinnacle of recognition with a quality award presented annually in Paris, Geneva, London, Frankfurt, New York, Moscow and Madrid. I congratulate Sierra Global, their CEO - Dr. Arosha and his team for their tremendous efforts demonstrating the highest quality, and become the winner of the Gold category.”

 “The presentation of the award to Sierra Global in Paris is recognition of our achievement of the quality in everything we do. It further demonstrates our commitment through the QC100 TQM creating a quality culture both internally and externally of the organisation,” stated Dr. Arosha Fernando, Director / CEO of Sierra Global.  

“This recognition is based on the criteria of the QC100 quality model implemented in over 100 countries and BID has awarded this to Sierra Global on the basis of demonstrated quality in number of key business areas such as customer satisfaction, communication strategies, benchmarking, leadership, planning and decision making, continuing education and ISO 9000 quality management.”

Previous awardees compromise several world’s renowned firms which some are from the Fortune 500 list. This includes Operadora VIPS S. de R.L. de C.V. part of Walmart ranked No. 1, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) Limited ranked No. 98, Reliance Industries India ranked No. 134, Korea Electric Power Co. ranked No. 271 and CH2M Hill International ranked No. 422 from the Fortune 500 list.