Was your organization one of the 83 applicants for the 2010 Baldrige?

In This Issue

83 Organizations apply for 2010 Baldrige Award

Baldrige

Named a “Best Leadership” Program

NIST Announces 2010 Baldrige Regional Conferences

NIST Baldrige Exhibit available for Events

Users of the Criteria for Performance Excellence

Quick Links

Baldrige-based services from Shaw Resources

NIST Baldrige exhibit available for industry events

To request a NIST Baldrige exhibit for your event, please contact Shaw Resources at 888-Shaw-Res (888-742-9737) or via email to News.Clippings@ ShawResources.com.

Users of the Criteria:

City of Coral Springs ’07

AtlantiCare ’09

Heartland Health ’09

Poudre Valley HS ’08

US Army ARDEC ’07

Mercy Health Sys ’07

Sunny Fresh Foods ’05

PRO-TEC (sml biz) ’07

Iredale Statesville Schools  ’08

Park Place Lexus ’05

Mesa Products (sml biz) ’06

MidwayUSA (sml biz) ’09

Honeywell Fed. Mfg ’09

US Vet Admin RX ’09

(This digest is provided as a courtesy to those who are interested in Baldrige-related news.)

June 17, 2010

Background

The Criteria for Performance Excellence is a strategic framework

that links processes with objectives and action plans to drive key results.  It is maintained by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and is used by an increasing number of business executives to assess their organization’s performance.

It is a publicly available framework that enables executives to quickly identify Opportunities for Improvement and decide upon appropriate approaches to improve.  Since it is non prescriptive, NIST uses

the Criteria to annually select winners of its Malcolm

Baldrige National Quality Award.

All improvement methodologies are acceptable under the Criteria including the Plan-Do-Check-Act methodology, DMAIC/Six Sigma, LEAN, ISO, Theory of Constraints, and all accreditation mandated practices.

83 Organizations

apply for 2010 Baldrige Award

Total

number of Health Care applicants exceeds the total for all other

categories combined

June 9, 2010: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced that it received 83 applications for the 2010 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Applicants include three manufacturers, two service companies, seven small businesses, 10 educational organizations, 54 health care organizations and seven nonprofit/governmental organizations. The 2010 winners of the Baldrige Award are expected to be announced in late November 2010.

Editor’s note: Recently, Congress amended the law to enable nonprofit and government organizations to apply.  In 2007, the City of Coral Springs, FL, was named the first local government entity to win a Baldirge award..

Baldrige Named a “Best Leadership” Program

Government/military organizational leaders

For the third straight year, Leadership Excellence magazine has named the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program at NIST to its list of the “top 10 leadership development (LD) programs” among U.S. government/military organizations.

Leadership Excellence was founded in 1984 by management experts Ken Shelton, Stephen R. Covey, Ken Blanchard and Charles Garfield. The magazine chooses its top leadership development programs from more than 1,000 candidate organizations based on seven criteria: vision/mission; involvement and participation; measurement and accountability; curriculum; presenters, presentations and delivery; take-home value; and outreach.

NIST

Announces 2010 Baldrige Regional Conferences

September 14, 2010 Newport Beach, CA

September 28, 2010 Nashville, TN

Whether your organization is large or small; involved in service or manufacturing, health care, education, or government; housed in one location or multiple sites around the globe; you can benefit from presentations by representatives of Baldrige Award recipients.

Each conference is scheduled for 8:00am – 5:00 pm with a continental breakfast from 7:00am-8:00am. A Pre-Conference Workshop will be offered from 1:00-4:00 p.m.  on September 13 for the Newport Beach, CA conference and on September 27 for the Nashville, TN conference. This optional workshop is designed to familiarize people new to Baldrige with the Program and the Criteria to maximize their learning at the conference.

Pre-registration is required, as on site registration will not be available.  Registration and fee information is available via 2010

Baldrige Regional Conferences, c/o MACC, Inc., P.O. Box 513, Colmar, PA

18915-0513, or via phone 215-822-6319, or at http://www.nist.gov/baldrige/regionals/registration.cfm. 

Conclusion

Is your organization using the Criteria for Performance Excellence?  Would you like to learn more about the Criteria for Performance Excellence? Click here to learn about services and other assistance available to you.

More questions?

Interested in a person-to-person discussion? Contact Shaw Resources at 888-742-9737 or via email.

Sincerely, 

Jim Shaw

5691 Matterhorn Pl NW, Issaquah, WA 98027

888-Shaw-Res (888-742-9737) 

www.ShawResources.com

Jim@ShawResources.com

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