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Baldrige Organizational Profile

The Organizational Profile (Baldrige Excellence Framework® preface) is a snapshot of your organization, the key influences on how it operates, and the key challenges it faces. It is the most appropriate starting point for self-assessment and for writing an application. It is critically important for the following reasons:

  • Helps identify gaps in key information and focus on key performance requirements and results

  • Use it as an initial self-assessment. Identify topics for which conflicting, little, or no information is available, use these topics for action planning

  • Sets the context for your responses to the Criteria requirements in categories 1–7

Explore the Baldrige Excellence Framework® Organizational Profiles.

Getting Started

How Baldrige Works
Baldrige Excellence Builder
Self-Assessing Your Organization
Baldrige Award

Resources

Purchase Baldrige Excellence Framework Business/Nonprofit, Education, Health Care
Baldrige Key Terms
Baldrige Improvement Tools
The Baldrige Criteria 101 Word

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Perfil Organizacional PDF This Spanish version of the Organizational Profile was provided by Maria DiazFonseca (diazfonseca.ms [at] gmail.com (diazfonseca[dot]ms[at]gmail[dot]com)). Please contact her directly with any questions or comments.

Contacts

  • Baldrige Customer Service
    (301) 975-2036
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    100 Bureau Drive, M/S 1020
    Gaithersburg, MD 20899-1020
Created August 14, 2016, Updated February 10, 2023