BPIR Best Practice Newsletter
No.
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Welcome to our latest newsletter.
Management
Brief: Enterprise Risk Management
Enterprise Risk
Management (ERM) forms part of the glue that holds corporate governance
together. It also contributes to an organisation’s long-term profitability
and sustainable growth.....
ERM
frameworks offer a structured approach to risk management, which enable
organisations to.....
Risk
maps and risk registers are excellent mechanisms for communicating organisational
risks throughout an organisation......read
more..
Typical Management Brief content
* Definition and Stage
* Expert Opinion
* Survey and Research
* Example Cases
* Measure and Evaluate
* Self-Assessments
* Summary of Best Practices
* Conclusion
* References.......Read other management briefs
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| Upcoming Events |
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2009
Performance Excellence Summit, Canada - October 22, 2009.
Top economic and social thinkers gather in Toronto to explore
how Canadian organizations from the private & public sectors
should face this brave new world economy. Organiser: National
Quality Institute.
4th
International Benchmarking Conference, October 27 - 28,
2009, Bahrain. Benchmarking experts and companies describe how
benchmarking is being used to deliver competitive advantage.
Organiser: Global Benchmarking Network.
Embracing
Excellence: Learning from the Best, Singapore - November
2 - 5, 2009. Business excellence award winners from around the
world will share their secrets of success. Organiser: The SQA
Governing Council & SPRING Singapore.
Certified
EFQM Assessor, Abu Dhabi - UAE, November 22 - 25. Organiser:
Abu Dhabi International Centre for Organisational Excellence
Award
Winners Conference, Warwickshire, UK, December 8th. Award
winners will include the 2009 Lean Six Sigma Academy and the
UK Excellence Award winners. Organiser: British Quality Foundation.
** See BPIR
Events Calendar for more events
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BPIR
Networking service gains momentum
We are nearly ready to move all members over to the new networking suite.
Currently certain partners have agreed for their members to be moved
and users among these have been buidling their profiles. Nearly 200
have done this so far and the flavour is definitely international with
over 10 major economies represented already. Remember it's not like
any other network you may be part of; its more... What you can do:
Networking - build a profile, search those of others, and communicate.
Project collaboration - post requests for one-on-one help, benchmarking, focus groups, partnerships, and more.
Best practice awards - upload your best practices and share them with your colleagues, professional body, or the wider BPIR community. Regular award for best 'best' practice uploaded.
Organisation profile - make your organisation visible in the community, highlight products/services, management/ improvement tools in use and their effectiveness, and search those of others.
Forums - topics forums, private project forums, and general business improvement forums.
Suggestion schemes (coming soon) - online tools for use by member organisations and partners
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Latest BPIR blogs
Culture
for Continuous Improvement - how is it aligned in your organisation? ..........read
more.
Organisational Social Networking - a must-watch video for its role in
training strategies........read
more.
Social Networking - Get on board the trend........read
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Spotlight on Self-Assessment
Have
you used any of our self-assessment tools lately? We have over 50 to
assess all aspects of your organisation - from how your organisations
develops its strategy to how it serves its customers. Here are three
topical examples:
Enterprise
Risk Management - Is your current Enterprise Risk Management
framework good enough...?. read
more (go to category 1)
Ethical
Decision Making Process - Is yours ethical ....?. read
more (go to category 1)
Environmental
Report/Statement Evaluation Checklist - Does your environmental
report meet international standards?.....read
more (go to category 2)
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Featured publications
Did
you know BPIR provides full access to over 600 excellent business publications
providing, in total, over 1,000,000 articles and reports? A few of the
publication titles from the "Business & Economics" category (one
of 23 categories):
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Non Profit World
- NZ Business
- Canadian Business Economics
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- Asia Today
- American Business Review
- Malaysian Business
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Members read the latest issues - non members see available titles
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Professional
Benchmarking: UK, Edinburgh
Nov 26th -27th, and London
Dec 2nd-3rd 2009
The Best Practice
Club with Quality Scotland and London Excellence offers 2-day interactive
workshops in best practice benchmarking using the innovative TRADE methodology
(developed by BPIR's sister organisation, COER, www.coer.org.nz)
which includes a full training manual and set of resources for professional
benchmarking.
Flyer
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Research
study: Employee engagement tied directly to the bottom line
Studies by Gallup involving over 10 million employees in more than 100
countries between 1998 and 2008 showed that most employers focussed on
satisfying employees with pay and benefits, but this did not lead improved
business outcomes. The studies found that employee engagement was a much
better predictor of outcomes in terms of productivity, profitability,
customer metrics, and more. Overall........read
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Research
study: Internet most important source for business information
In a 2009 study of over 650 executives 60% reported that the Internet
was by far the most important source for business information. The study
also revealed that executives spent an average of 15.9 hours per week
on the Internet (excluding e-mail) for work and non-work activities.....read
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Research
study: Cost reduction strategies
A May 2009 survey examined measures taken to shed or contain costs during
the recession. The study listed 17 cost-cutting measures and 86% of respondents
said their companies had implemented at least one of these cost-saving
measures, one respondent had enacted 13, the average respondent had used
five, and a very small percentage of companies relied on just one measure.....read
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Case
study: Social networking provides gateway into overseas markets
With the majority of its business coming from emerging markets outside
of the, Synchronica, a UK-based technology company, saw that social networking
could provide a gateway into overseas markets for its e-mail solutions.
The company joined two networks to identify useful contacts ...........read
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Case
study: Social networking helps company get a foot in the door
To meet the challenge of identifying customers in the European and North
American markets Wuhan Goldsense, a China-based Importer and exporter
of industrial machinery, used online networking to find potential purchasers.
The company found company profiles and learnt what they were interested
in, let overseas organisations know...........read
more.
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Research requests
Fresh information added every month in answer to your requests. Submit your issues for next month. How this service works |
| Last month's requests |
Currently being researched |
1.
Organisational Ethics
2. Employee engagement (and its influence on customer satisfaction)
3. Social Networking in Businesses
4. Cost Reduction |
1. Business Process Outsourcing
2. Managed Services
3. Offshoring
4. Marketing Audits
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...to
check out the website
- keep in touch with other members through the network and view the
rest of our research. There are 1000's of case studies, research papers,
and 'expert' articles linked to over 1000 strategies, tools and techniques.
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Regards,
Steve Welch
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Managing Director
BPIR.com Ltd
Business Performance Improvement Resource (www.BPIR.com)
Centre for Organisational Excellence Research
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