* Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award program, the nation's highest award for performance and business excellence.

The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program educates organizations in performance excellence management and administers the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

The European Foundation for Quality Management's EFQM Excellence Model supports an award scheme similar to the Baldrige Award for European companies.

The Alliance for Performance Excellence is a network of state and local organizations that use the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Criteria at the grassroots level to improve the performance of local organizations and economies.

One of Monticello's largest employers, Cargill Kitchen Solutions ( formerly Sunny Fresh Foods ), a Cargill Foods Company, received the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for business performance excellence in 1999 and 2005.

The medical center was a winner of the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in 2006.

On November 22, 2005, President George W. Bush and Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez announced Jenks Public Schools as a recipient of the 2005 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation ’ s highest Presidential honor for quality and organizational performance excellence.

SUN Tech was presented with the Significant Achievement Award in Education for raising their Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program criteria score to 648 points, a 345 point increase from 303 points in August, 2000.

SUN Tech was presented with the Significant Achievement Award in Education for raising their Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program criteria score to 648 points, a 345 point increase from 303 points in August, 2000.

SUN Tech was presented with the Significant Achievement Award in Education for raising their Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program criteria score to 648 points, a 345 point increase from 303 points in August, 2000.

SUN Tech was presented with the Significant Achievement Award in Education for raising their Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program criteria score to 648 points, a 345 point increase from 303 points in August, 2000.

SUN Tech was presented with the Significant Achievement Award in Education for raising their Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program criteria score to 648 points, a 345 point increase from 303 points in August, 2000.

SUN Tech was presented with the Significant Achievement Award in Education for raising their Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program criteria score to 648 points, a 345 point increase from 303 points in August, 2000.

SUN Tech was presented with the Significant Achievement Award in Education for raising their Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program criteria score to 648 points, a 345 point increase from 303 points in August, 2000.

SUN Tech was presented with the Significant Achievement Award in Education for raising their Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program criteria score to 648 points, a 345 point increase from 303 points in August, 2000.

SUN Tech was presented with the Significant Achievement Award in Education for raising their Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program criteria score to 648 points, a 345 point increase from 303 points in August, 2000.

SUN Tech was presented with the Significant Achievement Award in Education for raising their Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program criteria score to 648 points, a 345 point increase from 303 points in August, 2000.

* Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for the USA

* Nestlé Purina received in 2010 the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for their excellence in the areas of leadership, customer and market focus, strategic planning, process management, measurement, analysis and knowledge management, workforce focus and results.

The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recognizes U. S. organizations in the business, health care, education, and nonprofit sectors for performance excellence.

The Baldrige Award is the only formal recognition of the performance excellence of both public and private U. S. organizations given by the President of the United States.

To receive a Baldrige Award, an organization must have a role-model organizational management system that ensures continuous improvement in delivering products and / or services, demonstrates efficient and effective operations, and provides a way of engaging and responding to customers and other stakeholders.

Since 1991, ASQ has administered the United States ’ premier quality award, the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, which annually recognizes companies and organizations that have achieved performance excellence.

It is administered by the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program, which is based at and managed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the U. S. Department of Commerce.

The Baldrige Award was envisioned as a standard of excellence that would help U. S. organizations achieve world-class quality.

* The National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ), an agency of the U. S. Department of Commerce, manages the Baldrige Program.

One of five undergraduate-only programs in the United States to hold such accreditations, Monfort is the sole business school to receive the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award from the Office of the President of the United States and the U. S. Department of Commerce, the Timberline Award from Colorado Performance Excellence, and the Program of Excellence Award from the Colorado Commission on Higher Education.

Under his leadership the hotels earned an unprecedented two Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards, and grew from four to forty U. S. locations.

Transylvania Symphony Conductor Pfohl said yesterday that Mrs. Kennedy's Social Secretary, Letitia Baldrige, told about plans for White House youth concerts before the National Symphony Orchestra League in Philadelphia last spring.

A flow of correspondence between Pfohl and Miss Baldrige resulted in an invitation to the 85-student North Carolina group to play the first concert.

One of the most interested `` students '' on the tour which the Brevard group took at the National Gallery yesterday following their concert at the White House, was Letitia Baldrige, social secretary to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

`` I was an art major in college '', Miss Baldrige explained.

There is a division between Letitia Baldrige and Miss Manners on its social usage by those who are not physicians.

Baldrige sees this usage as acceptable ; Miss Manners writes that " only people of the medical profession correctly use the title of doctor socially ," but supports those who wish to use it in social contexts in the spirit of addressing people according to their wishes.

* 1922 – Malcolm Baldrige, 26th United States Secretary of Commerce ( d. 1987 )

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The Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence serve two main purposes: ( 1 ) to identify Baldrige Award recipients that will serve as role models for other organizations and ( 2 ) to help organizations assess their improvement efforts, diagnose their overall performance management system, and identify their strengths and opportunities for improvement.

The Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence provide organizations with an integrated approach to performance management that results in

The program and award were named for Malcolm Baldrige, who served as United States Secretary of Commerce during the Reagan administration, from 1981 until Baldrige ’ s 1987 death in a rodeo accident.

In 2010, the program's name was changed to the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program to reflect the evolution of the field of quality from a focus on product, service, and customer quality to a broader, strategic focus on overall organizational quality — called performance excellence.

The PRM uses a number of existing approaches to performance measurement, including the Balanced Scorecard, Baldrige Criteria, value measuring methodology, program logic models, the value chain, and the Theory of Constraints.