2010 Malcolm Baldrige Applications Up 20% This Year!

Eighty-three organizations are in the running for the 2010 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s highest recognition for organizational performance excellence and innovation. Applicants include three manufacturers, two service companies, seven small businesses, 10 educational organizations, 54 health care organizations and seven nonprofits/governmental organizations. The number of applicants is up 20% over 2009 and marks the fifth consecutive year that there have been 70 or more organizations seeking the award. Additionally, the 54 health care applicants are the largest number in that category since it began in 1999.

The 2010 applicants will be evaluated rigorously by the independent Board of Examiners in seven areas: leadership; strategic planning; customer focus; measurement, analysis and knowledge management; workforce focus; process management; and results. Examiners provide each applicant with 300 to 1,000 hours of review and a detailed report on the organization’s strengths and opportunities for improvement.

The 2010 Baldrige Award recipients are expected to be announced in late November.

Thousands of organizations use the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence to guide their enterprises, improve performance and get sustainable results. This proven improvement and innovation framework offers organizations an integrated approach to key management areas. “I see the Baldrige process as a powerful set of mechanisms for disciplined people engaged in disciplined thought and taking disciplined action to create great organizations that produce exceptional results,” says Jim Collins, author of Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don’t.

Dr. Blazey's Baldrige Criteria Training

Get your hands around one of the most essential management tools for organizational sustainability and success

The Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence
Whether your organization is at the beginning of its journey toward excellence or has already begun to benefit from a systematic approach to organizational development, our seminar will help you to leverage the power of the Baldrige framework to make your organization better faster!
Discover what questions (and answers) America’s most successful organizations use for getting better faster.

Understanding the Baldrige Criteria:
A Management Framework for High Performing Organizations
A two-day interactive seminar with national expert Mark Blazey PhD
June 29- 30, 2010  in Oshkosh WI

Seminar Description
The seminar — which includes lecture, group discussion and exercises — will increase your ability to understand and use the Baldrige framework in your daily work and effect change within your organization. Many past, current and potential WFA/Baldrige applicants and Examiners have found value in attending Dr. Blazey’s training more than once.
What you'll learn
• The Baldrige performance excellence model and processes as a business/  organizational strategy
• The key values, concepts and framework of the Criteria
• Comparative overview of the business, health care, and education versions of the Criteria
• Criteria Categories and Items - what they are and how they are interrelated
• Reporting and analyzing organizational results
• Learning, self-assessment, and recognition opportunities offered by Wisconsin Forward Award, a division of the Wisconsin Center for Performance Excellence

Register at www.forwardaward.org  
 
Wisconsin Forward Award is proud to partner with
Evergreen Innovations Network to bring Dr. Blazey to the Oshkosh Area

For Immediate Release:

Saturday, June 05, 2010

Diane Bergschneider, PhD Appointed Examiner for

2010 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

Diane Bergschneider, PhD of Diane Bergschneider Incorporated located in Bayside, WI, has been appointed by Dr. Patrick Gallagher, Director of the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), to the 2010 Board of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.  The Award, created by public law in 1987, is the highest level of national recognition for performance excellence that a U.S. organization can receive.

As an Examiner, Dr. Bergschneider is responsible for reviewing and evaluating applications submitted for the Award.  The board is composed of approximately 500 leading experts selected from industry, professional and trade organizations, education and health care organizations, and nonprofits (including government).

Those selected meet the highest standards of qualification and peer recognition.  All members of the board must take part in a preparation course based on the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence and the scoring and evaluation processes for the Baldrige Award.

The Baldrige Award may be given annually in each of six categories: Manufacturing, Service, Small Business, Education, Health Care, and Nonprofit.  Awards have been presented to 80 organizations, including the 2009 recipients: Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, Kansas City, Mo. (manufacturing); MidwayUSA, Columbia, Mo. (small business); AtlantiCare, Egg Harbor Township, N.J. (health care); Heartland Health, St. Joseph, Mo. (health care); and VA Cooperative Studies Program Clinical Research Pharmacy Coordinating Center, Albuquerque, N.M. (nonprofit)

Information about the Baldrige National Quality Program and the application process is available from the Baldrige National Quality Program, at (301) 975-2036 or nqp@nist.gov, or from the Baldrige Program's Web site at http://www.nist.gov/baldrige.

The Award Program is managed by NIST in close cooperation with the private sector.  ASQ in Milwaukee, Wisc., administers the program. For further information about Dr. Bergschneider contact (414) 351-3616. For media inquiries or interview requests about the Baldrige Program or the Award, reporters may contact Michael E. Newman, NIST Public Affairs Office, at (301) 975-3025 or michael.newman@nist.gov.