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Apply "Community of Excellence" framework to Greater Rochester

In 2017, Communities of Excellence 2026, in partnership with the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program, launched the Communities of Excellence Assessment and Recognition Program. The program has three levels: Commitment to Community Excellence, Journey to Community Excellence and the Community of Excellence Recognition. Details including criteria for submission and deadlines are available here. In parallel with Baldrige Program’s mission, the purpose of Communities of Excellence 2026 and the Assessment and Recognition Program is threefold: To develop a nationally recognized standard of community performance excellence To establish role models of that standard through the Recognition Program To encourage continuous improvement through sharing of best practices and provision of feedback to communities on the performance excellence journey that will lead to better outcomes for the residents they serve. "The Baldrige Program, and indeed the entire Baldrige community, are excited about helping communities achieve ever-higher levels of performance and improved quality of life for their residents. In fact, that is essentially the mission of the Baldrige Program: to benefit all U.S. residents through improved competitiveness. Until now, however, we have been focused on accomplishing that purpose through single organization. Partnering with Communities of Excellence 2026 enables us to carry out that mission on a much broader level, with the potential for greater reach and impact." Robert Fangmeyer, Director, Baldrige Performance Excellence Program

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Collaborators, Project Type, Impacts, Related Projects

 

Collaborators 

Lead Organization: Performance Excellence Network

Contact: TBD ; Email: TBD ; Phone: TBD

Known/Likely Collaborators: Performance Excellence Network (PEN Team)

Potential Collaborators: City of Rochester, MN ; Communities of Excellence 2026 ; County of Olmsted, MN ; DMC EDA ; Rochester Area Nonprofit Consortium

Related Projects

Destination Medical Center (DMC) ; In City for Good (In the Shadow of Growth) ; Journey to Growth Plan

Impacts 

Major Impact: 

PlanScape Impacts :

Level 1: Best Practice, Business Process, Governance/Public Policy, Workforce Development

Level 2: Best Practice, Networking, Globalization

DMC Impacts:

Education/Learning Environment

Community Health Impacts:

Type of Project

Tooling  

 

 

Detailed Description

Background

 

The leadership organizations in Rochester in 2013 were having conversations with Performance Excellence Network on
how Rochester Could move forward with pilot (including an update on DMC and how this could support DMC and other Rochester initiatives, what other leaders/organizations should be involved, the status of fundraising, whether this group is willing to serve as an initial steering committee, etc.) 

Complex environment requires a systems approach to make progress. COE was a notion of working with PEN to do a lean 6-sigma type of analysis on the community's collaboration resources.

 

July 11 2013 Meeting

 Attendees include:

Ardell Brede, Mayor, City of Rochester, John Wade, President, Rochester Chamber, Stephen Lehmkuhle, Chancellor, UMR, Jay Hesley, Vice Chancellor, UMR, Gail O’Kaney, President, RCTC, Dave Weber, Chief of Strategic Operations, RCTC, Mike Munoz, Superintendent, Rochester Public Schools, Gary Smith, President, RAEDI, Lisa Clark, Division Chair Public Affairs (and administrator with DMC), Mayo Clinic, Dr. Peter Carryer, retired CEO of Mayo Clinic Health System (and chair of Performance Excellence Network board), Brian Lassiter, President, Performance Excellence Network, Jennifer Burmeister, Director SE Minnesota, Performance Excellence Network, Lowell Kruse, retired from Heartland Health (St. Joe, MO) and part of the “Communities of Excellence” steering committee, Joyce Allegrucci, retired Chief of Staff for Gov Sebelius (now Sec of HHS  Sebelius) part of the “Communities of Excellence” steering committee, Brad Kemp, Communities of Excellence

Our agenda (subject to change slightly) is:

  • Welcome, (Re)Introductions
  • Opening Remarks
  • Reset the Vision for Communities of Excellence 2026 (for those new to the conversation)
  • Discuss Progress to Date and General Time of COE2026
  • Discuss How Rochester Could Move Forward with Pilot (including an update on DMC and how this could support DMC and other Rochester initiatives, what other leaders/organizations should be involved, the status of fundraising, whether this group is willing to serve as an initial steering committee, etc.)
  • Wrap Up

Thank you all for your time and perspective; we look forward to a productive discussion.

Brian Lassiter 

 

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Strategy
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Metrics
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Created by allnode on 2016/02/27

 

 

 

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Community Beam (dmcbeam.org) is a registry of private and public resources (organizations, projects, initiatives, programs) that underpin economic and social developments of greater Rochester:

  • For the commercial sector, we tend to register startup activities (new companies and new commercial projects) that bring diversification and high-impact opportunities to the area.
  • For the non-profit sector, we wish to shine light on all the organizations and services that otherwise labor under relative obscurity.
  • Our hope is that dmcbeam.org will encourage cross-sector collaborations and creative solutions.

While there are a number of registries in the community, dmcbeam.org's  distinct value is to pilot a database with a data structure and categorizations that answer the questions such as: What organizations or projects/programs in our community that have purported relevance with some of the over-arching focuses put forward by initiatives such as DMC, J2G and Health Improvements?

This database could be used as one of the ways to explore the capacities of the community. If you are someone on an exploratory journey to learn about the greater Rochester community. dmcbeam.org could be an interesting first step.

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