http://www.corevaluespartners.com/NewsandUpdates en-us CopyRight 2009, LoudClick Thu, 07 May 2009 06:14:24 GMT http://www.corevaluespartners.com/NewsandUpdates/StuderGrouparticlelink.aspx Baldrige Studer Group Alignment
Core Values Partners is a business partner with the Studer Group. The Studer Group helps organizations implement prescriptive tactics and tools that drive improved outcomes.

The Baldrige Criteria asks how an organization demonstrates well-deployed, systematic processes leading to a balanced set of business results. While it is easy for a health care organization to embrace the values and the well-documented success of organizations that have effectively applied the Criteria, organizations are looking for more prescriptive advice and feedback within each category as they navigate the road to performance excellence. The Baldrige Criteria ask for systematic processes and results; the Studer Group provides many of the answers to Criteria questions with prescriptive tools to hardwire excellence. To "hardwire" means much the same thing as "systematic." These prescriptive tools have been shown to lead to improved results.  Read More]]> Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:34:43 GMT http://www.corevaluespartners.com/NewsandUpdates/BaldrigeQuestforExcellence.aspx Baldrige Quest for Excellence Conference Update 

Today (April 20) was the first day of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Quest for Excellence conference in Washington, DC. The day was full of examples of innovative performance excellence practices.  Click Read More for a summary of the day. 
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Two broad legal duties of a nonprofit director are loyalty and caring for the interests of the public.  Previous legal challenges have seen board members use an "I know nothing" defense, which may be an indication of board members' lack of courage to ask each other tough questions about board and organization practices.  Measurement of board effectiveness and continuous improvement of board performance are keys in setting organization direction, ensuring ethical and legal guidelines are followed, and assessing organizational performance.

Although geared toward non-profit boards, this article provides valuable information for any board of directors.

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Is your organization at the top of its game? If so, maybe you're wondering how to make those incremental improvements to reach the highest level of performance excellence.  Or perhaps your organization's performance is just mediocre and leaders are looking for a method to accelerate improvement efforts.  Maybe performance is even poor, and you need a way to focus your turnaround efforts.

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