Baldrige Excellence Framework

Proven Leadership and Management Practices for High Performance

For more than 32 years, the Baldrige Excellence Framework® has empowered organizations to accomplish their missions, improve results, and become more competitive. The Baldrige Excellence Framework® includes the Criteria for Performance Excellence®, core values and concepts, and guidelines for evaluating your processes and results.

The Baldrige Excellence Framework® is all about helping you innovate and improve. Available for Business/Nonprofit (including Manufacturing, Service, Small Business, Nonprofit, and Government), Education, and Health Care sectors. Learn about the Impacts of Baldrige.

The 2023–2024 Baldrige Excellence Framework® features a focus on

• organizational agility, innovation, and transformation
• risk management and supply-chain resilience
• societal contributions and environmental sustainability
• the changing nature of work and workforce needs
• diversity, equity, and inclusion

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Get Started with Self-Assessing Your Organization

A Baldrige-based self-assessment can help your organization improve and succeed. The Baldrige Excellence Framework® can help you improve communication, productivity, and effectiveness and achieve your strategic goals. Use Baldrige Improvement Tools to help you get started.

2023–2024 edition

The Baldrige Excellence Builder® is another way to get started. It 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 and learn about the Baldrige Excellence Framework.

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Baldrige Award

The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is the highest level of national recognition for performance excellence that a U.S. organization can receive. Baldrige Award applicants cite the feedback report as the most significant benefit of applying. Learn more about the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and the Feedback Report.

What People Are Saying

most influential document in business

Gordon Black, Former Chairman and CEO, Harris/Black International Ltd.
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powerful set of mechanisms

Jim Collins, author of Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap . . . and Others Don’t
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Resources

Purchase Baldrige Excellence Framework Business/Nonprofit, Education, Health Care
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2023-2024 Self-Analysis Worksheet Word
Changes from the 2021–2022 Baldrige Excellence Framework PDF
Baldrige Excellence Builder
Baldrige Key Terms
Baldrige Improvement Tools
The Baldrige Criteria 101 Word

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