The Pocket Guide to the Baldrige Award Criteria - 11th Edition


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NEW! The booklet is a guide to interpreting the criteria in the seven Baldrige categories to help your organization improve quality. It begins with answers to commonly asked questions about the Award criteria. Then it breaks down the 19 items under the seven category headings of the Baldrige criteria with concise explanation and quick tips of what excellent companies do in each area.




The Pocket Guide to the Baldrige Award Criteria - 14th Edition


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A Simple Guide for Creating Efficient Winning Organizations Designed to help businesses understand the criteria for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, this work is not about the award, but rather is a concise explanation about how to use the criteria to improve an organization. Employed by thousands of organizations around the world, the criteria allow an organization the means to evaluate its progress toward becoming the best in its field. Part I of this 2008 edition covers questions most commonly asked about the award and its criteria. Part II provides a brief explanation for each of the 18 items in the criteria and lists the characteristics of organizations that excel in each. The book also includes resources for those applying for the award.




Baldrige Award Winning Quality -- 18th Edition


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The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is the highest level of national recognition for performance excellence that a U.S. organization can receive. Now in its 18th edition, Baldrige Award Winning Quality is still the most widely used and recognized book on the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. It provides readers with a simple, yet comprehensive resource, for understanding the most current criteria for this prestigious business performance award. The definitive resource for helping companies achieve world-class results, Baldrige Award Winning Quality – 18th Edition: How to Interpret the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence is the only book on the Baldrige criteria to detail, in simple and straightforward language, every category, examination item, and area to address. From understanding the scoring system to preparing for a site visit, it guides you through all stages in the process. Reflecting the new criteria (2013-2014) that address education and healthcare, this edition outlines a comprehensive plan that is suitable for any company in any industry. Offering detailed explanations of each of the 17 "Examination Items" and the 36 "Areas to Address" that compose the seven major categories, the book reveals exactly what examiners look for in each area and suggests what you need to include. It also discusses: Criteria of leadership and the role of senior management in the award process Importance of a long- and short-term strategic plan Where and how to satisfy the requirements for demonstrating effective "process" and "results" Lists of state award programs based on the Baldrige criteria Core values and themes that underlie the award How to weigh the importance of the 36 "Areas to Address" The significance of the Baldrige scoring scale, and its role in achieving performance excellence The book devotes a chapter to supplying a clear and concise explanation on how to prepare for a site visit from the board of examiners. It details each facet of the site visit, including its purpose, what a Baldrige examiner looks for, and the questions typically asked during the visit. Complete with rules for preparing graphics and charts, the book includes helpful tips to help you avoid common mistakes when completing the application.




Baldrige Award Winning Quality - 14th Edition


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The Baldrige criteria have been updated and finely tuned for 2005. Reflecting recent events, the new criteria include a focus on an organization's business ethics and governance systems. It asks how a company plans to stay operational during an emergency event, such as a terrorist act or a natural disaster. In total, there are now 33 Areas to address in the 2005 criteria, including an increased focus on leadership, strategic planning, measurement, analysis, knowledge management, process management and business results. The new 14th edition of the Baldrige Award Winning Quality addresses these changes for 2005 and helps you understand what the criteria are. Written in an easy-to-read format by one of the best-known authorities on the Baldrige criteria, Mark Graham Brown, it continues to be the most recognized reference in the field. The book provides a clear and concise explanation on how to prepare for a site visit, its purpose, what the Baldrige examiner looks for, and the questions typically asked during a visit.




Baldrige Award Winning Quality -- 17th Edition


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The Definitive Guide to Mastering the Baldrige Award Now in its 17th fully updated edition, this volume is the most widely used and recognized guide to the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. This simple and comprehensive resource enables companies to master the exhaustive criteria of the nation’s leading business performance award. This exclusive reference guide provides detailed descriptions of the 18 examination items and the 32 areas that comprise the seven major categories. It reveals what examiners look for in each area and provides powerful suggestions to achieve results. By consulting this reference, businesses will acquire the winning knowledge necessary to capture the award.




The Pocket Guide to the Baldrige Award Criteria - 12th Edition


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This booklet is a guide to interpreting the criteria in the seven Baldrige categories to help your organization improve quality. It begins with answers to commonly asked questions about the Award criteria. Then it breaks down the 19 items under the seven category headings of the Baldrige criteria with concise explanation and quick tips of what excellent companies do in each area.




The Pocket Guide to the Baldrige Award Criteria - 13th Edition


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The Pocket Guide to the Baldrige Criteria - 13th Edition has been updated for 2007 to interpret the criteria in the seven Baldrige categories. It begins with commonly asked questions about the Award criteria and then breaks down the 19 items under the seven category headings of the Baldrige criteria with concise explanations and quick tips of what excellent companies do in each area. Many aspects of the award have been improved, including— Implementation of the most significant change ever to the scoring scale Inclusion of an index in the 2004 criteria booklet Inclusion of three new terms to the glossary — Ethical behavior, Learning and Segment — which have very specific meanings within the Baldrige framework The most widely used and recognized resource on the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, this book, updated annually, is a simple and comprehensive resource for understanding the exhaustive criteria of the nation's leading business performance award, and is the only book to detail every category, examination item, and area within the seven categories of the criteria: Leadership; Strategic Planning; Customer and Market Focus; Measurement, Analysis and Knowledge Management; Human Resource Focus; Process Management and Business Results. The Baldrige Award is presented annually by the President of the United States to businesses — manufacturing and service, small and large — and to education and healthcare organizations, that apply and are judged to be outstanding in the seven criteria areas. These criteria are designed to help organizations enhance competitiveness by focusing on two goals: delivering ever improving value to customers and improving overall organizational performance &n







Baldrige Award Winning Quality


Book Description

The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is the highest level of national recognition for performance excellence that a U.S. organization can receive. Now in its 18th edition, Baldrige Award Winning Quality is still the most widely used and recognized book on the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. It provides readers with a simple, yet com




The Pocket Guide to the Baldrige Award Criteria (5-Pack), 17th Edition


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Updated yearly to match changing requirements, this guide is designed to help you understand the criteria for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. The Baldrige criteria are being used by thousands of organizations around the world to evaluate their progress toward becoming the best in their fields. This 17th edition of The Pocket Guide to the Baldrige Criteria begins with commonly asked questions about the Award criteria. It then breaks down the 19 items under the seven category headings of the Baldrige criteria with concise explanation and quick tips of what excellent companies do in each area.