Imagine you are the manager of the City of Tucson, Arizona Public Health Lab, a lab very much like the one in Milwaukee.Imagine that you and the mayor had just watched this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R_N_1b0Bzo) together because you both are interested in making some laboratory cost and quality improvements.The mayor knows that the Southwest Alliance for Excellence conducts an awards program, based on the Baldrige Award format and that winning the award would bring the lab and the city recognition throughout the state but the mayor was also impressed by this video.

What are the pros and cons of using the Baldrige Award format instead of working with ASQ?

What are the pros and cons of just working with ASQ.Disregard the political aspects.

Would it make sense to try to do both?Would it make sense to try to do one then later do the other?Explain.

What would you do and how would you explain your choice to the mayor?