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Baldrige Award

New Blog Highlights Baldrige Resources
The Alliance for Performance Excellence has launched the Baldrige Resource Library Blog with the support of the Baldrige Foundation and ASQ. Blog articles will feature resources on performance improvement contained in the Baldrige Resource Library.  

One Size Fits All
The four 2011 Baldrige recipients prove that organizations of all sizes can benefit from using the award criteria.

 

Download the Criteria for Performance Excellence
Download the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence from the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program website.

The criteria offer a framework for understanding performance management and cover seven key areas: leadership; strategic planning; customer and market focus; measurement, analysis, and knowledge management; human resource focus; process management; and business/organizational performance results.

Solid Commitment to People Is Main Ingredient for Texas Restaurant Excellence
In 2010, K&N Management became the second food service recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and the first restaurant group ever to receive the Texas Award for Performance Excellence.

How to Best Address the Baldrige Criteria
Julia Gabaldon interviews John Safin of the Carlsbad Department of Development and Glenn Bodinson, founder of BaldrigeCoach, about a range of topics from building collaborative networks to addressing the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence.

Baldrige in Healthcase - Webcast Series
View a series of interviews with healthcare leaders in this four-part webcast based on the book Journey to Excellence: How Baldrige Health Care Leaders Succeed.

Part 1 - Rulon Stacey, president/CEO, Poudre Valley Health System, discusses the leadership role.

Part 2 - Priscilla Nuwash, director of process improvement, discusses how Poudre Valley communicated the Baldrige vision.

Part 3 - Dr. Willian Neff, chief medical officer, explains how Poudre Valley engaged physicians.

Part 4 - Michele Serbenski, VP of Performance Excellence, Bronson Health Care Group, shares the Bronson story and leadership system.