Baldrige Toolkit

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


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Baldrige 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 improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 991 standard requirements:

  1. How does your organization select, manage, and use data and information for performance measurement, analysis and review in support of organizational planning and performance improvement?

  2. How do employee education, training and development contribute to the achievement of your action plans and address your key needs associated with organizational performance improvement?

  3. What systems are in place throughout your organization to enable and encourage department and staff to contribute effectively to employee achievement and organizational performance?

  4. What are your organizations key support processes with respect to financial management, planning for continuity of operations, and improvement of overall operational performance?

  5. How does your unit build and maintain an environment that is conducive to excellence, engagement, appreciation of diversity, and personal and organizational development?

  6. How do you foster your organizational culture conductive to high performance and a motivated workforce dedicated to individual goal setting, empowerment and initiative?

  7. How does your staff performance management system, including feedback to staff, support high performance work and contribute to the achievement of your action plans?

  8. How will you establish a relationship between employee performance and organizational results and use the information to improve your performance management system?

  9. How is the work environment managed and how is satisfaction determined to foster wellbeing, motivation, and cooperation of all department and staff members?

  10. What are your key current findings and trends in key measures or indicators of governance and internal and external fiscal accountability, as appropriate?


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 book in PDF containing 991 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

Your Baldrige 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 Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Baldrige 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 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 projects with the 62 implementation resources:

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

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Project Performance Report: To what degree do team members frequently explore the teams purpose and its implications?

  2. Stakeholder Management Plan: Are meeting minutes captured and sent out after the meeting?

  3. Project Scope Statement: What should you drop in order to add something new?

  4. Team Operating Agreement: Did you determine the technology methods that best match the messages to be communicated?

  5. Planning Process Group: Is the pace of implementing the products of the program ensuring the completeness of the results of the Baldrige project?

  6. Initiating Process Group: For technology Baldrige projects only: Are all production support stakeholders (Business unit, technical support, & user) prepared for implementation with appropriate contingency plans?

  7. Change Management Plan: Will the readiness criteria be met prior to the training roll out?

  8. Assumption and Constraint Log: If it is out of compliance, should the process be amended or should the Plan be amended?

  9. Assumption and Constraint Log: Is the current scope of the Baldrige project substantially different than that originally defined in the approved Baldrige project plan?

  10. Quality Audit: How does the organization know that its industry and community engagement planning and management systems are appropriately effective and constructive in enabling relationships with key stakeholder groups?

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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

  • 1.1 Baldrige project Charter
  • 1.2 Stakeholder Register
  • 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:

  • 2.1 Baldrige 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 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 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 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 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 project with this in-depth Baldrige Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Baldrige 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 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 investments work better.

This Baldrige 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.