For Immediate Release
Contact: John King
Phone: 219.436.6330
Fax: 219.432.7126
Email: jking@rosternetwork.com
March 19, 2002, Fort Wayne, In.
Baldridge Award Winners Beat
the S&P 500 for the Eighth Year
March 7, 2002 it was announced by U.S. Commerce Secretary Don Evans the “Baldridge Index” has once again outperformed the Standard & Poors 500. While performance in the stock market is only one indicator of success, this study and others show that businesses that seek excellence in everything they do can achieve success in many areas, including the bottom line,” said Commerce Secretary Evans.
The winners outperformed the S&P 500 by almost 4.5 to 1, a 512 percent return on investment. The winners plus the parent companies of subsidiary winners outperformed the S&P 500 by about 3 to 1, achieving a 323 percent return on investment, compared to a 110 percent return for the S&P 500.
A goal of ISO 9001:2000 was to
emulate the criteria for the Baldridge Awards … thus companies implementing ISO
9001:2000 will be in position to dramatically improve their performance.
When done correctly, achieving and maintaining higher quality standards results in improved profit margins. Fort Wayne, IN. based Roster Technologies, Inc., a developer and facilitator of profitability, quality and enterprise risk management systems and technologies offers PerformanceWareä … a web-enabled solution that can seamlessly integrate with other software and systems within an organization. Roster Technologies facilitates the conversion and compliance to high-profile best practices quality and enterprise risk management standards. PerformanceWareä then manages all policies, procedures, systems, forms and documentation needed for …
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Six Sigma, ISO 9001:2000, QS 9000
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Malcolm Baldridge criteria
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Knowledge management
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Human capital management
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Cost
cutting and profitability management
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Legal compliance and enterprise risk
management
Roster
Technologies enables organizations to … achieve higher standards, maintain and
communicate those standards, reduce all business risks and gain a higher return
on investment.
For more information, please contact:
John King
Roster Technologies, Inc.
6209 Constitution Drive
Fort Wayne, IN 46804
219.436.6330