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The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program (BPEP) is seeking wide input for updates and other revisions to the Baldrige Excellence Framework®, our core, comprehensive resource that is updated every two years.
As with past revisions, the 2025‒2026 version will codify the leading edge of validated leadership, management, and operational practices; foster core values/concepts of role-model organizations; and support organizational excellence and resilient long-term success.
BPEP invites anyone with expertise and insights on best practices for high-performing businesses and other organizations to submit input related to the questions below or to offer other specific, actionable suggestions for improving the Baldrige framework by email to iday [at] nist.gov (iday[at]nist[dot]gov) by May 24, 2024.
- What are the leading-edge, strategic, and competitiveness challenges that you are facing in your organization/industry (or seeing in the organizations with whom you work)?
- What changes have there been to the drivers of organizational resilience and long-term success?
- What are your suggestions for reorganizing and/or simplifying the Baldrige Excellence Framework® to enhance ease-of-use?
BPEP continually gathers insights from role-model organizations, from thought leaders, and from studies of organizations and their CEOs to inform the evolution of the framework. In addition, some of the most important insights BPEP has received for past revisions have come directly from members of the Baldrige community and the general public who are interested in helping organizations be successful in the long term.
Note, in 2024, for the first time, the Criteria for Performance Excellence® that are found in the framework are not identical to the Baldrige Award Criteria. However, the award criteria are derived from the concepts in and content of the framework. At this time, we are interested in your input on the framework overall.
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