In identifying whether an organization is a Zero-Based Organization or a World-Class Organization, in relation to its’ homeland security profile, an assessment team would review and assign a score to each area of an organization’s strategic and business needs. It is especially important for the assessment team members to consider the Baldrige Scoring Guidelines and validate their score against the Homeland Security Scoring Profile to ensure that together both, the Baldrige Scoring Guidelines and the Homeland Security Scoring Profiles, adequately describe the organization’s homeland security preparedness level that each question addresses throughout the assessment” (Fisher, 2004). Once the assessment team has assigned a score to each of the
