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Date created: 2/26/2001
Last updated: 7/02/2009

 

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Criteria for Performance Excellence
There are three versions of the Criteria available.

   
primary bullet easy Insight: Take a First Step Toward a Baldrige
Self-Assessment (formerly e-Baldrige) Using the Baldrige Organizational Profile for Business, Education, and Health Care.
   
primary bullet Are We Making Progress?  An easy-to-use employee questionnaire can help you assess your organization, now available in English and Spanish.
   
primary bullet Are We Making Progress As Leaders?  A senior leadership questionnaire designed for organizations dedicated to performance excellence.
   
primary bullet Your Guide to Performance Excellence: Who We Are, What We Do, What is Performance Excellence?
   
  For CEOs
primary bullet Issue Sheets: address key issues facing the CEOs of American business.
   
 
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2008 Recipients Announced.

bullet Baldrige Process News
70 Applications Received for 2009 Baldrige Award
   
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Nightingale College of Nursing Study Packet 2009
Now Available
   
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Blinded Applicant Scoring Data
Now Available
   
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Read Local Stories About Recipients: "Cargill Follows Vision Set by Lincoln" "Leadership Lessons from the 2008 Malcolm Baldrige Award Winner"; "Same Old Grind Doesn't Apply"; "School System 1 of 3 Organizations"
   
bullet "Cargill VP Named Chair of Baldrige Award Board of Overseers"
Article in Quality Digest
   
bullet Business News Interview with Baldrige Examiner
Article in Billings Business
   
bullet The Baldrige Model:
An Aligned and
Integrated Approach
Article in Journal of Association Leadership