WFA serves to advance the competitive advantage of Wisconsin organizations by providing opportunities for organizations to assess their operations against established, standards modeled after the internationally recognized Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence. Whether large or small, in business, education, health care or manufacturing, WFA encourages and supports future-thinking Wisconsin enterprises in their quest for customer-focused quality and excellence in performance management by providing training, assessment tools and consultative services.
New Eligibility Rules for the National Baldrige Award
The national Baldrige Program has recently enacted some changes to its Award eligibility rules that leverage the larger “Baldrige enterprise”—in particular, state Baldrige-based award programs like Wisconsin Forward Award.
The decision by Congress to eliminate federal funding for the national Baldrige Program is causing the Program to adopt a new business model. With the larger Baldrige enterprise in mind, the national Baldrige Program is enacting changes to the eligibility requirements that will formalize the de facto feeder system that currently exists between state award programs and the national award program. Starting in 2012, in order to be eligible for the national award, organizations must meet the existing requirements AND one of the following conditions:
- Be a previous Baldrige Award recipient
- Have received the top-tier award from state award program within the past five years
- Have received a site visit at the national level within the past five years
- Have received a combined scoring band range of eight or better (e.g., process band 4 and results band 4) in the past five years
- Have 25% or more of your employees/staff outside of your organization’s home state
- Have no state program available for your organization
There are additional details available on the award application website: http://www.nist.gov/baldrige/publications/award_application.cfm
Wisconsin Forward Award application and Examiner training have always been aligned with the national Baldrige program. We look forward to new ways to collaborate with the Baldrige program, as well as other state-level programs, in order to better serve Wisconsin organizations. Information about the various starter application levels (Challenger, and the Wisconsin Fast Forward), as well as the 50 page narrative application process, can be found on our websiteor by contacting the WCPE staff.
Baldrige CEO Issue Sheets
CEO Issue Sheets are in .pdf format and require Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader.
Recent Issue Sheets
Baldrige in Education: Performance Excellence Delivers World-Class Results
Baldrige in Health Care: Performance Excellence Delivers World-Class Results
Performance Excellence Delivers World-Class Results
Ethics: A Strategic Imperative
Other Issue Sheets Available
Business/Education Partnerships are Working Well
Baldrige, Six Sigma, and ISO: Understanding Your Options
Recognizing Role Model Practices
Baldrige: For Hiring and Keeping the Best Employees
Serving Shareholders and Stakeholders
A Global Approach for a Global Economy
Be sure to also check out
Baldrige Asks, “How Do You Know?”
Are We Making Progress? and Are We Making Progress as Leaders?
Two complementary Baldrige questionnaires designed to measure deployment and to compare leaders’ perception of deployment with that of the workforce. Both documents are available at no charge from the Baldrige National Quality Program.
Are We Making Progress? This document is also available in Spanish.
Are We Making Progress as Leaders?
Wisconsin Forward Award materials are available for personal use by organizations preparing a Wisconsin Forward Award application, or by Wisconsin Forward Award Directors, current members of the Board of Examiners, and other authorized Wisconsin Forward Award volunteers in connection with Wisconsin Center for Performance Excellence business only. Materials may not be copied or used by any person or organization to further economic or other interests or for any other purpose without the express written authorization of Wisconsin Center for Performance Excellence.
