BAR Consortium Mission

Serve as a collaborative community of practice that supports BAR members in their quest towards higher levels of performance excellence by:

• Sharing benchmarks, best practices, lessons learned, and results to learn from each other in a reciprocal and confidential forum; and
• Participating in a mutually beneficial research agenda with academics.

BAR Key Success Factors

• Provide recommendations to the Baldrige National Quality Award Program regarding future award and criteria enhancements.
• Manage a Knowledge Management system.
• 100% Active participation from 2006 forward - "No recipient left behind."
• Publish reports and articles.
• Private (BAR Members only) reports and articles.
• Measurable benefits – positive ROI for individual member organizations.
• Member organization performance.
• Lessons learned approach to continually improve the BAR itself.
• Defined processes including roles and responsibilities.
• Continuity of BAR leadership.