The Malcolm Baldrige Performance Excellence Model has proven to be a valuable tool for use by organizations interested in performance excellence. A form of it is used by almost all industrialized countries including Japan to improve on performance excellence in various sectors of the economy. The purpose of this research is to use the scoring data from a state program to investigate which categories show significant differences in scoring between those who win the award and those that do not. Fisher's Discriminant analysis is used to show that there is significant difference at a 0.05 significance level, between scores for all 7 criteria for award winners and those who do not win the award. The classification function resulted in a strong correlation coefficient of 0.82, with 87.5% and 100% true positive and true negative respectively. The result shows that scores for all 7 criteria play a significant role in winning an award.
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