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Good Governance: 10 Baldrige Questions for Your Board of Directors

October 31, 2013

Washington Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein and others have written about the problem of an excessive and short-sighted focus by many business leaders

A Manufacturer's Cinderella Story

October 30, 2013

There is a growing cluster afoot and it is in East Tennessee. How do I know this? Five organizations that comprise the AMP!, the Advanced Manufacturing and

MFG Is Who We Are

October 23, 2013

Toward the end of summer, I was part of an assembled mass of governors and manufacturers at a Walmart-led summit in Florida. My boss, the Secretary of Commerce

From A Metal Fabricators Perspective

October 17, 2013

Guest post by Mike Bowlby of Mack Hils Metal Fabrication Metal fabrication shops can get bombarded at any moment with orders from customers, ranging in

Guess Again

September 27, 2013

How many times during the day do you guess? You probably do it more than you think. I’ll bet you guess when it’s time to leave for work in the morning, or you

Baldrige in Manufacturing Today: Seagate’s Story

September 26, 2013

How is the Baldrige framework for performance excellence helping manufacturing companies today? Consider the experience of Seagate Technology, a manufacturer

Minecraft and Manufacturing Day

September 24, 2013

If you have or regularly spend time with any kids over the age of five, then you have undoubtedly heard of the game Minecraft. I have watched games progress in

Inspiring Executives--On the Plant Floor and in Other Safe Spaces

September 19, 2013

"Some of the best ideas for improving health care come from outside our field," writes Dr. Peter Pronovost in his blog, "What Health Care Can Learn From Corn

Lunar Manufacturing In The 21st Century

September 18, 2013

England, in the 1760s, was the birthplace of the western world’s Industrial Revolution, initiated by a group of men who made “manufacturing” the purview of the

Big Pilots Drive the Big Picture: Building an Ecosystem of Ecosystems

No one ever claimed that implementing the NSTIC would be easy or that any one organization--private or public – could do it alone. This is why President Obama

What Does it Mean to Embrace the NSTIC Guiding Principles?

As the IDESG Trust Framework Trustmark (TFTM) Committee continues to consider various approaches to support a trustmark scheme for the Identity Ecosystem – and

How People Make Things

September 10, 2013

Guest post by Andy Capel, Arkansas Manufacturing Solutions Sometimes we all need a pick-me-up. It is so easy to get in a rut in our everyday life and become

Breaking Badly

September 4, 2013

In March 2013, a Manufacturing Leadership Council survey was conducted by Frost & Sullivan with 226 manufacturers.[1] The survey’s intent was to understand

Baldrige Self-Assessment: Seven Steps for a Full Examination

August 29, 2013

Let’s say your organization has already begun using the Baldrige Excellence Framework (which includes the Criteria for Performance Excellence) to assess its

Why We Have No Reason to Gripe

August 27, 2013

A recent survey by Harris Interactive © on behalf of CareerBuilder describes the hardest-to-fill American jobs, basing their findings on the inability of

A Crowning Achievement for Your Own Organization

August 22, 2013

A capstone is defined as a "crowning achievement, point, element, or event." But what does a capstone have to do with the Baldrige Performance Excellence

Foods’ Future

August 21, 2013

What do a McDonalds French fry supplier (J.R. Simplot Company), Starbucks Coffee, and Béquet Caramels have in common? Two things it turns out. First, they’re

Does That Cloud Look Like A Pig? Putting the Fed in Federation: Part II

Back in February, if you read our post on Putting the Fed in Federation: The U.S. Government as Early Adopter of the Identity Ecosystem and thought “when pigs

The Big M

August 15, 2013

When discussing employment in The Big M, parents, teachers and mentors often take great care to ensure that the child/student/mentee understands the rigors of a

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Baldrige Self-Assessment: Seven Ways to Get Started

August 13, 2013

Ready to assess your organization’s performance using an approach based on the Baldrige Excellence Framework (which includes the Criteria for Performance

A Visit to the Movies, American Made

August 9, 2013

I want to let you know about a movie that I decided to see the other day. I drove to nearby Baltimore’s historic Charles Theatre to see American Made Movie

Unlocking Manufacturing’s Potential

August 8, 2013

Recently I had the opportunity to attend an interesting presentation and event, Today’s Manufacturing: Unlocking the Unlimited Potential, organized by the U.S

Getting Down to the Nitty Gritty: Perspectives on the IDESG Boston Plenary

We were thrilled to see more than 150 in-person and remote participants take time out of their summers to attend the fifth Identity Ecosystem Steering Group

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Baldrige Criteria: Seven Ways to Learn More

August 6, 2013

Anyone who is new to Baldrige organizational assessment—and takes a look inside a Baldrige Excellence Framework booklet for the first time—can see right

Modeling and Simulation Spurs a “New Age of U.S. Manufacturing”

August 5, 2013

Guest post by Rich Markham, Polymer Ohio (part of Ohio MEP, a NIST MEP affiliate) American manufacturing is at a noteworthy and exciting convergence of three

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