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Baldrige Products and Services

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Baldrige Cybersecurity Initiative

Enhance and improve the utilization of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, benefiting individual organizations and the nation’s cybersecurity posture.

 

Baldrige Excellence Framework & Criteria.

Baldrige Excellence Framework

(Business/Nonprofit, Education, or Health Care)
Complete Baldrige framework. Includes the full Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence. Table of contents

 

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Baldrige Excellence Builder

This brief guide to organizational performance excellence helps you understand how well you are accomplishing what is important to your organization: Are your processes consistently effective?, Do your approaches address your organization’s needs?, How good are your results?, Is your organization learning and improving? Download the Baldrige Excellence Builder for free or purchase bulk copies today!

 

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Baldrige Executive Fellows Program

The Baldrige Executive Fellows Program is a one-year, nationally ranked leadership development experience for direct reports to the most senior leader in the organization and business unit leaders. The program prepares this elite group of rising senior executives for impactful leadership and helps them emerge with a broader perspective on how to achieve performance excellence for their own organizations, stimulate innovation, and build the knowledge and capabilities necessary for organizational success.

 

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Baldrige Connect

Baldrige Connect is a network of Baldrige-based consultants, all of whom have extensive experience with the Baldrige Framework and in directly helping organizations improve their performance. These consultants offer services in all organizational areas ranging from leadership and strategic planning, to customers and markets, to workforce and operations.

 

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Baldrige Collaborative Assessment

This assessment against the Baldrige Criteria by a team of experienced Baldrige examiners gives you timely, actionable feedback that you can begin using right away to improve your organization. The end product is immediate guidance on your organization’s areas of strength and opportunities for improvement, followed by a written feedback report.  Now you don’t have to apply for the Baldrige Award to get Baldrige feedback.

 

The 32nd Quest for Excellence Conference, Monday, April 12–Thursday, April 15, 2021. A Virtual Showcase of Baldrige Award Recipient Best Practices.
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Baldrige Examiner Training Experience

Have you—or someone else in your organization—ever wanted to learn what Baldrige examiners learn but thought you didn’t have enough time to commit to being an examiner? If so, you are in luck. In the nationally recognized Baldrige Examiner Preparation course, you will work side-by-side with experienced Baldrige examiners and learn how to use the Baldrige Excellence Framework through a peer-driven, case-study-based approach.   

 

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Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is the highest level of national recognition for performance excellence that a U.S. organization can receive.

 

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Become a Baldrige Examiner

If you are looking for a one-of-a-kind professional development and networking opportunity, and the chance to make a meaningful contribution to organizational improvement and U.S. competitiveness, apply to serve as a volunteer on the Baldrige Board of Examiners.

 

 

Sponsorship Opportunities Available

The Baldrige Program offers multiple sponsorship options that yield two important outcomes—raising awareness for your organization and providing tangible support for the Baldrige Program. All sponsorships are visible and appreciated.

 

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Shop Baldrige Gear

The Baldrige Program is pleased to offer items for purchase through Varge' International, LTD.

 

Created June 8, 2016, Updated September 28, 2020