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    South Carolina Quality Forum

    South Carolina Excellence!

    Benefits

    Baldridge Program

    • 5 South Carolina applicants for the Baldrige Award

    • 1 South Carolina award applicant in 2012 represents 944 jobs

    • Baldrige examiners from SC volunteered over $151,000 in services

     

    Start Your Journey

    • Demonstration of a commitment to excellence

    • Customized Baldrige Excellence Framework & Criteria training

    • Recognition in SCQF materials and recognition

    Baldrige 20|20

    Baldrige award winners have seen drastic efficiency and effectiveness improvements in:
    Benefits of Participation in the Awards Process

    Organizations that have received the Award have seen:

    • Increased revenue

    • Decreased cycle time

    • Improved product reliability

    • Greater customer satisfaction and engagement

    • An increase in new product sales as a percentage of total annual sales

    • Decreased time to market

    • Increased employee involvement, empowerment, and productivity

    • Increased market share

    • Greater opportunities for innovation, research and development

    • Cost reduction opportunties

    • Increased return on assets and return on equity

    • Global market improvement


    An organization does not have to receive the Award to see these benefits; all applicants are rewarded through improved organizational processes and both qualitative and quantitative results. 

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    Customer -

    Customer satisfaction of 95% or higher for 4 years...

    Workforce -

    19% annual improvement rate in overall employee engagement... 

    Operations -

    15-fold annual improvements in cost savings from supply-chain efforts...

    Strategy -

    More than $7.5 million annual cost savings from implementing innovative ideas...

    Environment -

    20% annual cost savings from energy conservation improvements for 3 years 
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    Baldrige and South Carolina

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    Read about the benefits that the Baldrige Performance Excellence Criteria has brough to the great state of South Carolina in this publication!

    South Carolina and Baldrige.pdf
    South Carolina and Baldrige.pdf
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    © 2016 South Carolina Quality Forum
     

    Our Mission: To improve the competitiveness and performance of organizations operating within South Carolina.

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    Our Vision: To be the partner of choice for performance excellence in every sector of the economy in South Carolina.