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Administrators at the Rhode Island School of Design use the Baldrige criteria to re-engineer their budget process. The criteria lead the university to new software that ties the budget to the strategic plan, increases fiscal accountability organization-wide, and offers deep, intuitive functionality. [ more ]

You've been through the drill before. Some process in your organization needs fixing and a team is formed to address it. Before you know it, you're looking at software as a solution. That's not a bad thing, but the way we go about it often is. [ more ]

In this whitepaper, we apply the Malcolm Baldrige framework to the budget process, and identify specific areas in the budgeting process for improvement. [ more ]

 Learn how BudgetPak mapped against that criteria, and how RISD used this criteria to assess a proposed project to improve their budget process. [ more ]

"We needed the entire campus to be highly engaged in the budget process," she said. "Our goal is to give [staff] the tools to budget for those initiatives that support an aggressive, evolving, strategic plan. The Baldrige Criteria gave us great confidence in choosing the software that would meet those needs." [ more ]

Every once in a while the sun and the moon and the stars all align just right to deliver an exceptional webinar. Such was the case recently when Linda Murphy Church presented how she used the rigorous Malcolm Baldrige Award criteria to access a critical decision the Rhode Island School of Design was facing. In her case, that decision was around the budgeting process and some enabling technology. But she was able to generalize her example in a way that made the whole approach accessible, even to those few that never even heard of Malcolm Baldrige. [ more ]