About the Baldrige Excellence Framework (Education)The Baldrige Excellence Framework (Education) and its Criteria empower your organization to reach its goals, improve results, and become more competitive...The questions in the Education Criteria help you explore how you are accomplishing your organization's mission and key objectives in seven critical areas:* Leadership* Strategy* Customers* Measurement, analysis, and knowledge management* Workforce* Operations* ResultsA Systems Perspective -- The Baldrige framework helps you manage all the components of your organization as a unified whole, so that your plans, processes, measures, and actions are consistent. The system's building blocks are the Education Criteria for Performance Excellence, the core values and concepts, and the scoring guidelines.National Institute of Standards and TechnologyNIST_36a9a026-66b6-11e0-86fc-e93d7a64ea2aOrganizations reach their goals, improve results, and become more competitive._1bfae21a-1cf0-11e8-8bb2-34636d556326To help organizations improve and achieve excellence._1bfae396-1cf0-11e8-8bb2-34636d556326High-PerformanceThe Baldrige framework is based on core values and concepts that represent beliefs and behaviors found in high-performing organizations:Systems PerspectiveVisionary LeadershipStudent-Centered ExcellenceValuing PeopleOrganizational LearningAgilityFocus on SuccessManaging for InnovationManagement by FactSocietal ResponsibilityEthicsTransparencyResultsDelivering value and resultsProcessesEvaluate and improve your processes._1bfae44a-1cf0-11e8-8bb2-34636d5563261With the Baldrige framework, you evaluate and improve your processes along four dimensions:ApproachDetermine the effectiveness of the ways your organization's work is accomplished._1bfae4f4-1cf0-11e8-8bb2-34636d5563261.1How do you accomplish your organization’s work? How effective are your key approaches?DeploymentUse your processes consistently._1bfae5d0-1cf0-11e8-8bb2-34636d5563261.2How consistently are your key processes used in relevant parts of your organization?LearningEvaluate and improve your processes and share them across your organization._1bfae670-1cf0-11e8-8bb2-34636d5563261.3How well have you evaluated and improved your key processes? How well have improvements been shared within your organization?IntegrationDetermine how well your processes align with your organizational needs and are harmonized across your organization._1bfae710-1cf0-11e8-8bb2-34636d5563261.4How do your processes align with your current and future organizational needs? How well are processes and operations harmonized across your organization?ResultsEvaluate your results._1bfae7ba-1cf0-11e8-8bb2-34636d5563262You evaluate your results along four dimensions:LevelsDetermine your current levels of performance._1bfae85a-1cf0-11e8-8bb2-34636d5563262.1What is your current performance?TrendsDetermine the trends of your results._1bfae8fa-1cf0-11e8-8bb2-34636d5563262.2Are the results improving, staying the same, or getting worse?ComparisonsCompare your performance with that of other organizations._1bfae9e0-1cf0-11e8-8bb2-34636d5563262.3How does your performance compare with that of other organizations, or with benchmarks or industry leaders?IntegrationTrack results that are important and use them in decision making._1bfaeaf8-1cf0-11e8-8bb2-34636d5563262.4Are you tracking results that are important to your organization and that consider the expectations and needs of your key stakeholders? Are you using the results in organizational decision making?2018-02-28https://www.nist.gov/baldrige/about-baldrige-excellence-framework-educationOwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net