The Baldrige Award: The Journey Is the Win

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By Paul Grizzell Is your organization at the top of your game? If so, maybe you’re wondering how to make those incremental improvements to reach the highest level of performance excellence.  Or perhaps your organization’s performance is just mediocre and leaders are looking for a method to accelerate improvement efforts.  Maybe performance is even poor, and you need a way … Read More

Changes to 2011-2012 Baldrige Criteria

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The Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence have evolved over time, moving from a manufacturing quality model to a performance excellence model that is relevant for any industry or business sector. The most significant changes to the 2011-2012 criteria focus on two areas: dealing with (1) complexity in enterprise leadership and management, and (2) customer engagement. Attached are excerpts from the 2011-2012 Criteria … Read More

The Nine Principles – A Roadmap for the Baldrige Criteria

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Published by the Studer Group By Paul Grizzell and Lucy Crouch, R.N. Foreword by Quint Studer The commitment of health care organizations to the pursuit of performance excellence is unprecedented as good organizations strive to become great. Hospitals have been participating in The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) and state and local quality awards at an increasing pace. In … Read More