What to Expect in the 2023-2024 Baldrige Excellence Framework
The Baldrige Program at NIST has been working diligently on the next revision of the Baldrige Excellence Framework; the 2023-2024 Framework with its Criteria is expected to be published in January 2023. There will be three versions: Business/Nonprofit, Health Care, and Education. In addition, the shorter version of the framework, Baldrige Excellence Builder, will be […]
TC 176 Posts Updated ISO 9000 Terms & Definitions Reflecting eComm and Election Integrity
On November 1st, ISO/TC 176, the committee responsible for the ISO 9000 series of quality management standards, posted a new terms and definitions document to their website that has been significantly updated from the official terms and definitions contained in the current revision of ISO 9000 that was published in 2015. ISO 9000 contains terms […]
External Review of the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program (BPEP) Underway
Many were surprised in June when they were notified that there would be no Baldrige award program process in 2022, a hard decision that came as a result of some serious reflection about whether the program was having the intended impact – which it was not – and a decision for an external and thorough […]
TC 176/SC 2 Finished Review of ISO 10007:2017; Majority Favor Confirmation
TC 176/SC 2, the group responsible for ISO 9001, has finished its review of ISO 10007:2017, in accordance with the normal 5-year review cycle for ISO standards, with a large majority of SC 2 reportedly being in favor of confirming the standard as-is. ISO 10007:2017 Quality management – Guidelines for configuration management, is a quality […]