Alignment

Baldrige Health Care Glossary

Alignment

The term “alignment” refers to consistency of plans, processes, information, resource decisions, actions, results, and analyses to support key organization-wide goals. Effective alignment requires a common understanding of purposes and goals. It also requires the use of complementary measures and information for planning, tracking, analysis, and improvement at three levels: the organizational level, the key process level, and the department or work unit level.

See also the definition of “integration”.

Note: Blue words above are hyperlinks to other integrated Glossary terms.

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