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Does Baldrige Make A Business Case For Quality?, Mark L. Dean, Cynthia L. Tomovic
Does Baldrige Make A Business Case For Quality?, Mark L. Dean, Cynthia L. Tomovic
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The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) is a widely accepted model promoting quality management as a means to business success. However, because business results are themselves part of the model, the contribution of the approach-deployment elements to results cannot be determined. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) maintains a history of Baldrige applications and the results of their evaluations. Statistical analysis of these data could yield insight into whether the approach-deployment advocated by the Baldrige model actually produces excellent results. Although NIST does not currently allow access to the data, future empirical evaluation of the data could …