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Explore the Monfort Institute website using the site map. The Institute works with key partners including the research community and Baldrige Award Recipient’s (BAR) Consortium to identify a collaborative research agenda that addresses real world issues and dilemmas. Collaborative research and application projects are conducted to create new knowledge for achieving sustainable excellence in a global environment. This new knowledge is disseminated through a variety of media including: publications, courses, lecture series, and learning forums.
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BAR Members - Mark you calendars for New Orleans!
Upcoming Fall BAR Meeting - October 1 and 2, 2008
The fall BAR Consortium meeting will be hosted by DynMcDermott Petroleum Operations Company in New Orleans. This collaborative sharing session will feature the results from the recent research projects on leading the journey to performance excellence and on managing transition and turnover at the top. In addition, the session will include presentations and executive round table discussions on sustaining high performance including: financial, environmental, and social sustainability. Read more
This fall the Institute will sponsor a brown bag series for the Monfort College of Business faculty on collaborative research. This six session series will explore the book: Collaborative Research in Organizations. The objective of this series is to develop a common understanding of collaborative research and how it can be applied to help our real world research efforts at the Monfort College of Business. Each meeting will identify and discuss key points from the book and how to apply the key points to our individual and collective research efforts. Each session will be facilitated by a different faculty member. Prior to each session there will be a reading assignment. Each participant will read the section(s) assigned and identify the main points for discussion. Montfort Faculty RSVP to John Latham in order to get your FREE copy of Collaborative Research in Organizations. Read more
A Collaborative Approach to Research in Performance Excellence
This Quality Management Journal article describes a collaborative approach initiated by the Monfort Institute at the University of Northern Colorado to engage high-level practitioners of performance excellence and academic researchers to: a) identify the external and internal dilemmas facing practitioners in high-performing organizations; b) develop a purposeful research agenda that addresses both the needs and interests of practitioners and researchers; and c) develop a concept of operations to address the research agenda. Read more
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University of Northern Colorado (c) 2006 - 2008
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