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Date created: 2/26/2001
Last updated: 8/24/2009

 

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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 View Keynote Remarks from Quest for Excellence XXI
  Simon Cooper Photo links to YouTube page. Simon Cooper
President and Chief Operating Officer
The Ritz- Carlton Hotel Company, LLC
   
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
   
bullet Listen or Watch Baldrige Award Recipient speakers from the Quest for Excellence
   
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Former Superintendant Terry Holliday on The Road to a Baldrige Award

   
bullet New! Performance Excellence Podcast: Weekly Podcast of Quality New Mexico's radio show
   
bullet Conference Board Report:
A Leadership Prescription for the Future of Quality

   
bullet Read How to "Turn Customer Insight into Innovation"
Industry Week article
   
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Nightingale College of Nursing Study Packet 2009
Now Available

   
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Blinded Applicant Scoring Data
Now Available

   
bullet Judges Survey of Applicant Satisfaction
Powerpoint Presentation