Baldrige Award Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Baldrige Award Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Baldrige Award related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Baldrige Award specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Baldrige Award Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 991 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Baldrige Award improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 991 standard requirements:


1. How do you prioritize and promote self service capabilities to customers in order to gain the confidence in solutions that could be trusted to solve the needs quickly and completely?
   
   

2. Which policy mix is most adequate to increase productivity and competitiveness while at the same time make the growth process more equitable?
   
   

3. Has your organization identified and mapped out areas of continuous operational business process improvement associated with digital change?
   
   

4. Are successful companies giving undue importance to the customers current needs at the cost of new technology or business model adoption?
   
   

5. Will remote work be a sustainable working model or will it have a significant impact on the allegedly important organizational culture?
   
   

6. How to experiment with products, services, business models, processes in dynamic businesses with complex multi stakeholder systems?
   
   

7. What are the metrics that can provide insights that lead to productivity gains, cost savings, or customer service improvements?
   
   

8. Is the optimization process being provided with information by problem management to incorporate into the assessment process?
   
   

9. Are there processes in place that will ensure continuous quality improvements are made based on outcome data results?
   
   

10. How do you move employees into new/emerging areas of your workforce in order to maintain your competitive advantage?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Baldrige Award book in PDF containing 991 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Baldrige Award self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Baldrige Award Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Baldrige Award areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Baldrige Award Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Baldrige Award projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Baldrige Award Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Baldrige Award project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Procurement Audit: If a purchase order calls for a cost-plus agreement, is the method of determining how final charges will be determined specified?
   
   

2. Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: What do people from other organizations see as your organizations weaknesses?
   
   

3. Quality Metrics: What approved evidence based screening tools can be used?
   
   

4. Change Management Plan: What would be an estimate of the total cost for the activities required to carry out the change initiative?
   
   

5. Stakeholder Management Plan: Is the steering committee active in Baldrige Award project oversight?
   
   

6. Lessons Learned: What were the problems encountered in the Baldrige Award project-functional area relationship, why, and how could they be fixed?
   
   

7. Procurement Management Plan: Does the schedule include Baldrige Award project management time and change request analysis time?
   
   

8. Source Selection Criteria: When is it appropriate to conduct a preproposal conference?
   
   

9. Schedule Management Plan: Have the procedures for identifying budget variances been followed?
   
   

10. Probability and Impact Assessment: Are staff committed for the duration of the Baldrige Award project?


 
Step-by-step and complete Baldrige Award Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Baldrige Award project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Baldrige Award project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Baldrige Award project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Baldrige Award project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Baldrige Award project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Baldrige Award project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Baldrige Award project with this in-depth Baldrige Award Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Baldrige Award projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Baldrige Award and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Baldrige Award investments work better.

This Baldrige Award All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.