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Baldrige Excellence Builder

2023-2024 Baldrige Excellence Builder Cover

2023–2024 edition

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Why Use the Excellence Builder?

The Baldrige Excellence Builder® is based on the Baldrige Excellence Framework® and its Criteria for Performance Excellence®. Use the Excellence Builder to

  • Assess your organization against the most important features of organizational performance excellence
  • Learn about the Baldrige Excellence Framework

Key Questions

The Baldrige Excellence Builder® helps you understand how well you are accomplishing what is important to your organization:

  • Are your processes consistently effective?
  • Do your approaches address your organization's needs?
  • How good are your results?
  • Is your organization learning and improving?

Contents

  • About the Baldrige Excellence Builder®
  • Core Values and Concepts
  • Baldrige Excellence Builder
  • Assessing Your Responses
  • Assessment Rubric
  • Glossary of Key Terms

What's Next

Give Us Feedback

After you use the Excellence Builder, baldrige [at] nist.gov (subject: Baldrige%20Excellence%20Builder, body: ) (tell us about your experience).

Resources

Purchase Baldrige Excellence Framework® Business/Nonprofit, Education, Health Care
Previous Baldrige Excellence Builder® Versions: 2021-2022, 2019-2020 (PDF)
Baldrige Key Terms
Self-Assessing
Baldrige Improvement Tools
Foundations for a Successful Business

Related Links

How Baldrige Works
Baldrige Impacts
Self-Assessing Your Organization
Baldrige Products and Services
Baldrige Award
Baldrige Award Recipient Listing
Baldrige FAQ

Non-English Versions

Japanese
Baldrige Excellence Builder Word (2021-2022) 
Questions/Comments Contact: susumu.kurose [at] gmail.com (The Global Quality Forum)

Spanish
Creador de Excelencia Baldrige Word (2017-2018)
Questions/Comments Contact: diazfonseca.ms [at] gmail.com (Maria DiazFonseca)

Created December 15, 2014, Updated February 16, 2024