Lennox Industries Inc., has been named the recipient of the 2017 Outstanding Corporate Innovator (OCI) Award by the Product Development and Management Association. The OCI is the only global innovation award that recognizes companies for demonstrating sustained and quantifiable success in developing new products and services.
"We are proud to be recognized with the 2017 Outstanding Corporate Innovator Award,” said John Whinery, vice president, product management, for Lennox. “It recognizes the culture of innovation that is at the core of this company, and has been since Lennox was founded in 1895.”
For over 30 years, the OCI Award selection process has identified companies that create and capture value through innovation in developing new products. The prize recognizes sustained success in launching new products, growth from new product success, well-defined development practices and processes, and distinctive innovative characteristics and intangibles.
“Lennox’s success is grounded in a strong foundation of innovation principles and practices, executed by our exceptional team of professionals,” said Whinery.
Past OCI Award recipients include some of the largest, most recognizable brands in the world. Including Lennox Industries Inc., there have been 54 organizations granted the OCI Award over the course of its 30-year history. A few of the winners are Apple, Bausch & Lomb, BMW, Chrysler, Dow, FedEx, Harley-Davidson, Herman Miller, Hewlett-Packard, Merck, PepsiCo, Xerox and a host of others.
The OCI Award was presented to Lennox Industries at the 2017 PDMA Annual Conference, Nov. 11-15, 2017, in Chicago. CLICK HERE for additional information.