Joomla! site syndication http://www.bpir.com 2008-08-08T06:47:01+01:00 http://www.bpir.com http://www.bpir.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2006-08-23T20:16:47+01:00 http://www.bpir.com http://www.bpir.com/benchmarking-for-best-practice-bpir.com/menu-id-1.html benchmarking (index.php?option=com_content task=view id=53 Itemid=57) and best practice (index.php?option=com_content task=view id=54 Itemid=58) information. Become a member (membership-benefits/index.php) and access our databases and networks. This will help you save time and learn from proven “best practices”. Adapt these to your own needs and improve your bottom line. 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From setting your organisation’s vision and strategy to implementing employee surveys or six-sigma the BPIR will help you to: Improve your own performance Improve the performance of your colleagues and staff Improve all your organisation’s business processes through benchmarking download (http://members.bpir.com/site/bpirflier.pdf) ) Send them your organisation's primary user's membership number. The primary user was allocated directly by QS and the membership number was highlighted in our initial welcome email to him/her. Just contact this person and ask for this number, if in doubt email us at qs@bpir.com. Tell them to go to Password Support (index.php?option=com_content task=view id=140 Itemid=91) and to follow the instructions to Add Password to Site Membership (http://members.bpir.com/site/addmember.asp) Email us at qs@bpir.com if you have already reached the limit of five (5) users and require more passwords (a message will tell an applicant if the limit has been reached)IS YOUR ORGANISATION COMMITTED TO EXCELLENCE? A new type of BPIR membership, just launched, provides access for all your employees and also brands the BPIR site they see with your organisation's logo. See membership page (http://members.bpir.com/site/membership.htm) for full list of benefits and other value-adding membership types. NATIONAL QUALITY INSTITUTE (NQI) members - Welcome! This website is the NQI's Business Performance Improvement Resource (BPIR). As an NQI member you have FREE access to the BPIR and its databases of benchmarks, best practices, self-assessment tools and much more… NQI’s Platinum Partners in Excellence receive up to 3 BPIR passwords, Gold and Silver Partners 2 passwords, and 1 password to Standard Members. Contact the NQI: a) If you have not received a username and password to log-in to the BPIR b) If you would like to purchase more passwords or obtain organisational-wide access at a 10% NQI discounted rate. c) To find out more about NQI and or BPIR NQI contact: Glenda MacDonald, NQI Relationship Manager; Tel: 416.251.7600 x243 Fax: 416.251.9131 Email: glenda@nqi.ca (mailto:glenda@nqi.ca). BPIR flyer - download (http://members.bpir.com/site/bpirflier.pdf). To maximize organizational learning why not upgrade your BPIR membership so that all your staff have access to the BPIR? Subscribing to the BPIR members' best practice community gains full access to: (index.php?option=com_content task=view id=178) Eight (8) integrated databases : strategies, tools, and techniques, best practice case studies, performance measures and benchmarks, benchmarking reports, competitor analysis, over 250,000 articles (full access to 625+ top business related journals and publications) (articles-reports-database/index.php) from around the world, award winning organisations, expert opinions. 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