Posted by Harry Hertz , the Baldrige Cheermudgeon Even the best organizations are imperfect. High-performing organizations strive for six sigma performance, but that is striving for 3.4 defects per...
Taking Measure
Provides a behind-the-scenes look at NIST’s research and programs, covering a broad range of science and technology areas.
Manufacturing Innovation Blog
This blog from NIST's Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) program is a collection of discussions on key issues for U.S. manufacturers.
Blogrige
The official blog of the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program, which educates organizations in performance excellence management and administers the Baldrige Award.
NSTIC Notes
Updates from the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) National Program Office.
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Posted by Dawn Marie Bailey While the annual online application for the 2017 Board of Examiners has now closed, we are always looking for ways to celebrate Baldrige Examiners. Competitively selected...
MEP
I don’t normally watch horror movies, but there is a correlation between the movie “Saw” and ransomware, in particular a variant called JIGSAW. This is pretty scary stuff — the first thing you see is...
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By Christine Schaefer In an online Harvard Business Review article this month, Sue Bingham, an expert on creating high-performing workplaces, addresses a growing concern among business leaders today...
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Posted by Dawn Marie Bailey With new policies and directions from an incoming Presidential administration, and the news media theorizing about uncertain futures for organizations across the economic...
Taking Measure
Cars, buildings, computer chips, you and me and the air we breathe, everything is made of atoms. We learn this in elementary school, because, well, it’s an elementary fact. But we seldom think about...
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By Christine Schaefer Valuing people is one of the 11 core concepts and values of the Baldrige Excellence Framework (including the Criteria for Performance Excellence). What’s more, “Workforce...
MEP
Recently I accompanied our Director Carroll Thomas to the University of Utah Manufacturing Extension Partnership’s (UUMEP) open house announcing a new MEP center in Salt Lake City. After the open...
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In my last blog , I talked about the role of the Baldrige Excellence Framework and Criteria for Performance Excellence in enabling organizations of all kinds to achieve sustainable high performance...
NSTIC Notes
By: Sean Brooks, Mike Garcia, Naomi Lefkovitz, Suzanne Lightman, Ellen Nadeau Most in the IT space won’t know this, but NIST has one of the world’s best concrete engineering programs. Maybe we just...