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Self-Assessing

    What Is a Baldrige Self-Assessment?

    A Baldrige self-assessment helps organizations assess whether they are developing and deploying a sound, balanced and systematic approach for running their organization. Whether your organization is large or small, and no matter your industry or sector, you can use the Baldrige Excellence Framework and Criteria to conduct a self-assessment of your organization. It provides a way to evaluate how well your organization is meeting its goals and objectives. Organizations use it to evaluate their processes and their impact on results. Learn about the Impact of Baldrige.

    You Can Customize it–Self-assessments are flexible and can be customized to meet your improvement objectives.

    Why Should Organizations Self-Assess?

    Organizations self-assess to reveal strengths to build and opportunities to improve and implement action plans. Many reasons can underlie the need for a Baldrige self-assessment

    • Customers, competitors, or budget are driving the need to change
    • Environment is changing
    • Organization is among the best, and you want to keep it that way

      Benefits of Self-Assessing

      • Identify successes and opportunities for improvement
      • Jump-start a change initiative
      • Energize improvement initiatives
      • Energize the workforce
      • Focus your organization on common goals
      • Assess performance against the competition
      • Align resources with strategic objectives

      Getting Started with Baldrige

      A Baldrige-based self-assessment helps your organization improve and succeed. Get started today!

      Resources

      Purchase Baldrige Excellence Framework Business/Nonprofit, Education, Health Care
      Self-Analysis Worksheet Word
      Baldrige Excellence Builder
      Baldrige Key Terms
      Baldrige Improvement Tools
      The Baldrige Criteria 101 Word

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      How Baldrige Works
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      Contacts

      • Baldrige Customer Service
        (301) 975-2036
        NIST/BPEP
        100 Bureau Drive, M/S 1020
        Gaithersburg, MD 20899-1020
      Created February 18, 2010, Updated November 15, 2019