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1. | the leadership of the United States in product and process quality has been challenged strongly (and sometimes successfully) by foreign competition, and our Nation's productivity growth has improved less than our competitors' over the last two decades. |
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2. | American business and industry are beginning to understand that poor quality costs companies as much as 20 percent of sales revenues nationally and that improved quality of goods and services goes hand in hand with improved productivity, lower costs, and increased profitability. |
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3. | strategic planning for quality and quality improvement programs, through a commitment to excellence in manufacturing and services, are becoming more and more essential to the well-being of our Nation's economy and our ability to compete effectively in the global marketplace. |
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4. | improved management understanding of the factory floor, worker involvement in quality, and greater emphasis on statistical process control can lead to dramatic improvements in the cost and quality of manufactured products. |
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5. | the concept of quality improvement is directly applicable to small companies as well as large, to service industries as well as manufacturing, and to the public sector as well as private enterprise. |
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6. | in order to be successful, quality improvement programs must be management-led and customer-oriented, and this may require fundamental changes in the way companies and agencies do business. |
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7. | several major industrial nations have successfully coupled rigorous private-sector quality audits with national awards giving special recognition to those enterprises the audits identify as the very best; and |
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8. | a national quality award program of this kind in the United States would help improve quality and productivity by: |
a. | helping to stimulate American companies to improve quality and productivity for the pride of recognition while obtaining a competitive edge through increased profits; |
b. | recognizing the achievements of those companies that improve the quality of their goods and services and providing an example to others; | |
| c. | establishing guidelines and criteria that can be used by business, industrial, governmental, and other organizations in evaluating their own quality improvement efforts; and |
| d. | providing specific guidance for other American organizations that wish to learn how to manage for high quality by making available detailed information on how winning organizations were able to change their cultures and achieve eminence." |
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Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award |
Baldrige Process News November 25, 2003 President and Commerce Secretary Announce Recipients of Nation’s Highest Honor in Quality and Performance Excellence President George W. Bush and Commerce Secretary Donald L. Evans today announced seven organizations as recipients of the 2003 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s highest honor for quality and performance excellence. This is the most Baldrige Award recipients since the program started in 1988 and the first time that recipients were named in all five Baldrige Award categories. The 2003 Baldrige Award recipients are: Medrad, Inc., Indianola, Pa. (manufacturing); Boeing Aerospace Support, St. Louis, Mo. (service)(Boeing Airlift and Tanker Programs, Long Beach, Calif., received the Baldrige Award in 1998 in the manufacturing category); Caterpillar Financial Services Corp., Nashville, Tenn. (service); Stoner Inc., Quarryville, Pa. (small business); Community Consolidated School District 15, Palatine, Ill. (education); Baptist Hospital, Inc., Pensacola, Fla. (health care); Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City, Kansas City, Mo. (health care) For a complete description of these role model organizations, view theofficial press release. Did you knowthat every year about 400 people from almost every state; from businesses, schools, hospitals, other health care organizations, and government volunteer days and weeks of their time to evaluate Baldrige Award applicants? Take a look at thecurrent Board of Examiners list. Judges' Meeting September 18, 2003 The Panel of Judges met on September 18, 2003 to select the organizations that will move forward in the 2003 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award process. Of the 35 organizations, 13 will receive site visits by teams of Examiners. The group is comprised of two education and three health care organizations, three manufacturing and three service companies, and two small businesses. Judges' Meeting July 31, 2003 The Panel of Judges met on July 31, 2003 to select the organizations that will move forward in the 2003 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award process. Of the 68 organizations that applied, 35 will receive additional evaluations by teams of Examiners. The group is comprised of seven education and 12 health care organizations, six manufacturing and seven service companies, and three small businesses. |
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