Join us for an exciting two-day Baldrige for Beginners training session on December 12-13, 2024, hosted by SPQA. It’s an opportunity you won’t want to miss! Register here. In this Introductory course, SPQA offers an opportunity for individuals and organizations to learn the foundations of the Baldrige Excellence Framework using the Baldrige Excellence Builder to…
Read MoreOTW Cohort Resources
The 2019 3rd OTW Cohort is using several resources to help drive their organizational excellence journey. It begins with a survey of leadership, which helps establish a baseline and begins to identify possible areas of improvement. This is followed by the SPQA Discovery process, which deepens understanding and provides assessment information necessary to develop improvement…
Read MoreDiscovery or Award?
Some organizations question which program would be best for them? The answer depends on where they are in their journey to performance excellence. Organizations should consider: where the organization is today relative to addressing the full range of the Baldrige Excellence Framework, and how much time the organization is willing to invest relative to the quality…
Read MoreBaldrige Excellence Builder
The Baldrige Excellence Builder is a ‘lite’ version of the Baldrige Excellence Framework. It is used by programs beginning their excellence journey and serves as the foundation of SPQA’s Discovery program.
Read MoreBaldrige Cybersecurity Excellence Builder
“The Baldrige Cybersecurity Excellence Builder […] is a self-assessment tool to help organizations better understand the effectiveness of their cybersecurity risk management efforts and identify improvement opportunities in the context of their overall organizational performance. This self-assessment tool blends organizational assessment approaches from the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program (BPEP) with the concepts and principles of…
Read MoreAmerican Society for Quality
The American Society for Quality (ASQ) has been the leading membership-based quality improvement organization in the U.S. for more than 50 years. Its members have initiated most of the quality methods used throughout the world, including statistical process control, quality cost measurement and control, total quality management, failure analysis, and zero defects. The site offers…
Read MoreForum Speaker – Bob Fangmeyer
I am Bob, Director of the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program. I have been with Baldrige since 1997 serving on many of the teams in the office in many different roles. Before becoming the Deputy Director in late 2011, I served on the Management Team. Prior to that, I served as Team Leader on the former…
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