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How Long-Term Care Center Grows Its Own Engagement

April 27, 2017

By 2022, the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that in the United States 19.4 percent more registered nurses (RNs) will be needed to fill vacancies to care

Plotting a Path from NASA Grids to NIST Graphics

April 27, 2017

Before “Hidden Figures” was a movie, it was a book. Actually, two books—the regular book and a young readers’ edition. I liked the movie, but I loved the books

Momentum Group values and industry awards are listed over an image of fabric.

How a Small Textile Distributor Became a Leading Innovator in Its Industry

April 25, 2017

During the Baldrige Program’s recent Quest for Excellence® Conference, Momentum Group, a 2016 Baldrige Award recipient, described key practices that have helped

Making “The Technology” for Exoskeletons a Reality

April 21, 2017

This article originally appeared on the NIST Taking Measure blog . Guest blog post by Bill Billotte. I grew up in a small farming community in southern Georgia

Two Inspirational Leaders Honored for Commitment to Excellence

April 19, 2017

For their leadership that has inspired performance excellence in their organizations and benefited their workforces, customers, and students, Mary Searcy Bixby

Grote Reber's Sterling, Virginia, radio telescope installation

Grote Reber, Radio Astronomer

April 18, 2017

Dulles International Airport, in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., sits on land once owned by NIST. It was on this spot that NIST brought

Cybersecurity: Protecting Manufacturing Technology and Innovation

April 14, 2017

Recently a segment on my favorite morning news program stopped me in my tracks. The young and attractive hosts (why are they always so young and attractive?)

To Invent Your Organization's Future, Experiment, Question, Sometimes Fail

April 13, 2017

Create an innovation advantage for your organization by letting go of industrial-age principles, embracing imagination, and experimenting even if you might fail

It's Like Sampling and Buying Jam

April 11, 2017

This is about strategic thinking. However, I need to preface it with a story. It all started with an NPR broadcast recently that discussed data from a TED

Leadership Practices of 2016 Baldrige Award Recipients: Momentum Group

April 7, 2017

During the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program’s 29th Annual Quest for Excellence® Conference this week, national role models in every sector showcased

Leadership Practices of 2016 Baldrige Award Recipients: Don Chalmers Ford

April 6, 2017

During the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program’s 29th Annual Quest for Excellence® Conference this week, national role models in every sector—including

Supply Chain Foundations

April 5, 2017

Consider this: 100 percent of domestic manufacturers in the United States procure some combination of materials, components, sub-assemblies, and/or assemblies

Leadership Practices of 2016 Baldrige Award Recipients: Kindred–Mountain Valley

April 5, 2017

During the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program’s 29th Annual Quest for Excellence® Conference this week, national role models in every sector—including

Leadership Practices of 2016 Baldrige Award Recipients: Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital

April 4, 2017

During the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program’s 29th Annual Quest for Excellence® Conference this week, national role models in every sector—including

What the Commerce Secretary Said at This Year’s Baldrige Award Ceremony

April 3, 2017

As the sun set over the Baltimore harbor waterfront Sunday evening, leaders of four high-performing American organizations officially received the 2016 Baldrige

A minor plot twist: Comment period extended for PART of SP 800-63-3

March 31, 2017

Let’s get this out of the way right up front: this is not an early April Fools Day prank! Granted, government blogs aren’t the typical medium for getting

The Magnetic Allure of Superconductivity

March 31, 2017

One of my favorite things about being a condensed matter physicist is how broadly defined the subject is. There are lots of interesting phenomena begging for

Cybersecurity Requirements Raising the Stakes for Manufacturers

March 28, 2017

Guest blog post by Elliot Forsyth, Vice President of Business Operations at the Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center (The Center). Cybersecurity is

How Baldrige Makes America Better, State by State

March 28, 2017

Between 2005 and 2016, nine national role models identified through the annual Baldrige Awards have been organizations in Texas. During the same period, that

What You Can Learn from a Baldrige Award-Winning School

March 23, 2017

In 2015, the Charter School of San Diego (CSSD)—part of a public school system—became the first school of its kind to earn a Baldrige Award. (Baldrige Award

Collaborative Robotics Enabling Manufacturing Workforce and Productivity Growth

March 22, 2017

Guest blog post by Jeremy Marvel, research scientist and project leader at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In early 2016, the

NIST biomedical engineer Laurie Locascio places a water sample on a highly sensitive, inexpensive "lab-on-a-chip"

Who Are You, Little Girl? Being a Woman, and a Leader, in Science

March 22, 2017

Like a lot of scientists, I am very goal-oriented, so after I got my Ph.D. in toxicology, I set out to become a leader in my field by the time I was 40. To get

Being Remarkable from the Boardroom to the Bedside

March 21, 2017

“Remarkable” means extraordinary, uncommon, worthy of notice or attention, unusual. Would you use that word to describe your place of work? How about your

Closing time! You don’t have to go home … but you can still comment on draft SP 800-63-3

March 16, 2017

Just 15 days remain in the comment period for draft Special Publication (SP) 800-63-3: Digital Identity Guidelines! The document opened for public comment on

Baldrige: Answering the Call for Competitiveness

March 16, 2017

The U.S. Council on Competitiveness recently released its 30 th annual report—self-described as a "clarion call" for the 45th president of the United States

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