Cargill Business ExcellenceOur Journey with Baldrige

KEY THEMES

• Deploying Baldrige throughout a diverse, global company

• The value that you can extract from deploying the Baldrige criteria deeply

• Why Baldrige for us?

CARGILL OVERVIEW

• Private Ownership

• 131,000 Employees

• 75 Business Units

• Six Continents

• Sixty Six Countries

• Food, Agriculture, Financial, Industrial

OUR POINT OF VIEW

Sustaining Baldrige is an investment that must have:

Payback for all stakeholders

Engaged leadership

Relevance to the organization

Broad support among other change agents

KEY THEMES

BUSINESS EXCELLENCE

• Deploy BE Criteria

• Organize Assessments

Self-Assessments

Peer Site Visit Assessments

Award Site Visit Assessments

• Provide Consulting Services

BUSINESS EXCELLENCE

AWARD SITE VISIT TEAM

HOW WE DO IT

• Apply continuous improvement

MEASURE BUSINESS IMPACT

Financial Performance Results

Cumulative EAT vs. budget

THREE ROLE MODELS

• Cargill Kitchen Solutions

• Cargill Corn Milling North America

• Cargill Animal Nutrition Korea

CONNECTIVITY

• An intelligent organization is

one that uses the broader

intelligence of every member.

The collective intelligence of any

enterprise has already been evenly distributed…one brain per person.

WHY BALDRIGE FOR US?

• Engages people across the organization

• Develops a common language

• Aligns and strengthens our connectivity

business model

• Builds resilience into our organization

• Instills the spirit of continuous

improvement

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