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USING A BALDRIGE ASSESSMENT AS A STRATEGIC PLANNING TOOL
from categories 1 to 6 in Baldrige may become improvement projects that are part of your
strategic plan. The key is to make sure that the improvement projects or strategies selected
will help the business get healthier. Forget focusing on improving your Baldrige score. If
you make your company healthier, your Baldrige score will improve all on its own. Because
almost half of the points in Baldrige focus on your business results, a higher Baldrige
score will obviously be correlated with better company performance. Formore detailed
information on this approach to planning, consult m