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Baldrige Performance Excellence Program

The Baldrige Program oversees the nation's only Presidential award for performance excellence while offering a wide array of award-winning products and services, including the world-renowned Baldrige Excellence Framework. We invite you to learn about the Baldrige community dedicated to helping organizations improve.

2020 Baldrige Award Recipients Announced. Wilbur Ross, Secretary of Commerce said, "I congratulate these five U.S. organizations for committing themselves to performance standards that have demonstrable positive effects on the American business community."
5 Organizations Win U.S. Department of Commerce’s 2020 Baldrige Awards for Performance Excellence
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Happy Thanksgiving 2020

Giving thanks to the entire Baldrige community and especially the volunteers who supported us and each other. Thank you for your graciousness and service to
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A Story About Data Quality

Let me start with some background information. A few weeks ago, I received an email from a former chair of the Baldrige Judges Panel and long-time friend, Kathy

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What Organizations Are Saying

highly recommend

Marguerite Morgan, Hospital Administrator, Florida State Hospital
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The opportunities for improvement from this report were
truly amazing. ...As the CEO, I have seen a tremendous
amount of resurgent energy in our employees...
I highly recommend the new Baldrige
Collaborative [Assessment].

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