How will your city look like 20 or 50 years from now? it would be worthwhile understanding the planning processes of competent and futuristic cities. The vision and mission statements lay down the foundation for the city’s collective growth towards the future and project how the officials intend to design exceptional communities.
The Baldrige Excellence Framework has a set of 11 foundational beliefs and behaviors (core values) that underpin its systems approach to achieving organizational high performance. One of those core values is agility and resilience. While both agility and resilience are important, many of us conflate these two concepts. I believe understanding their differences and complementarity will help organizations consider all aspects of preparing for uncertain futures.
Every few years, in my dreams, I relive an incident from my first real job. At age 14, I was eligible for a work permit in 1960’s New York City. I obtained my permit and got a Saturday job working at the largest (five floors) hobby store in the city. It was located in one of the posh downtown shopping areas and had, among other things, a functioning model railroad display that had every possible bell and whistle (literally) and occupied a significant part of the model railroading floor of the building.
Organisational Excellence Architecture (OEA) refers to the formal structure used to assist in the implementation of BE within an organisation. To investigate the components and importance of OEA in accelerating BE journey, a PhD research project has been initiated by the Centre for Organisational Excellence Research (COER) and Massey University.
U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Deputy Secretary hosted the convening of national experts to officially launch the Department of Commerce’s new Job Quality Initiative. The initiative is aimed at ultimately helping American employers become more competitive by providing workers with high-quality jobs.
Watch Dr Robin Mann’s Presentation on the Centre for Organisational Excellence Research (COER)’s research and consultancy projects on business excellence and benchmarking.
To commemorate 25 years of IMC Ramkrishna Bajaj National Quality Award the IMC’s Journal includes articles on the history of the award and the quality movement in general in India. Articles are from Niraj Bajaj the IMC RBNQA Chairman who recalls how he invited Suresh Lulla, who represented the Juran Institute in India, to help in structuring the IMC Quality Improvement & Technology Committee (IMC QITC).
When the City of Germantown (TN) was named a Baldrige Award recipient in 2019, the small suburb of Memphis (just 20 square miles in size) became only the fourth city to earn the prestigious, Presidential award for organizational excellence.
During the Baldrige Program’s 32nd Quest for Excellence® Conference this year, Germantown City Administrator Patrick Lawton highlighted how his organization uses the Baldrige Excellence Framework to achieve and maintain high performance to serve its community.
Introducing Dr Alaa Garad’s book “The Learning Driven Business – How to Develop an Organisational Learning Ecosystem” – a great read stressing the importance of individual and organisational learning. his book provides a significant contribution to organizational learning and business improvement literature. It is simple and easy to read, with many practical examples of how learning can be applied to create an organizational learning culture.
Seven U.S. organizations have been selected to receive site visits this fall, proceeding to the final stage of the examination process for the 2021 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA), the nation’s highest award for organizational performance excellence.
I was delighted to participate in the 4th European Conference on Industrial Engineering & Operations Management (IEOM) last month. The theme of this cycle was “Road to Resilient Manufacturing and Logistics”. Over the 4 days of the conference, there were more than 90 presentations, 11 competitions, and 6 discussion panels. It was truly an outstanding event!
Below I will share the key points of the presentation with some elaboration on the stages of TRADE Benchmarking methodology.
Back in 2017, I wrote a blog about three things to consider when thinking of moving towards self-set salaries. Since then, I’ve continued to gather examples of principles and practices from different organisations that I often share with people by email whenever they ask for resources on this topic. Here is what I have so far and if you know of any other examples, please do share so I can add to the list!