Welcome to our blog!  Its all related to our best practice information and networking resource, and of course, now and again, the often wacky thought-processes of your’s truly.

We serve the general business community for benchmarking, business excellence (or Total Quality Management if you like), best practices, and general performance improvement:

1. Research and collate practical techniques and benchmarks (performance experiences and organisation case studies) and a raft of other related information about how high-performing businesses achieve their results and or win awards.
2. Provide a business network for members to make valuable contacts, get help from experts, and to collaborate on benchmarking projects and other initiatives that will help organisational, or personal, performance.

We’re planning to launch our Business Network over the next week or two.  Since hitting a milestone of 10,000 users (yeay!) we’ve been pushing hard to finish it and we believe it will be unique.  We searched high and low to find the right people to bolster our efforts and now all the ‘wee early hour’ finishes are about to be rewarded (so much for “Work Life Balance” – see our Work and Life Balance – Best Practice Report on it). Its a huge task keeping our resource up to date and at the same time weeding out information that lacks real value.  But we do it.  Because that’s just the kind of guys we are…

I intend to regularly update this blog and I’d like it to host news about new & upcoming BPIR features, our partner organisations, plans (not the secret world-domination ones of course), interesting feedback from users, and anything else that I might consider interesting and appropriate or interesting enough for the you to read.  I also hope this will become a platform where I can discover the opinions, needs, and interests of readers, mainly from users and the business community, so I hope we get plenty of comments posted back!

Of course depending on how the responses come in from readers this all may change!  We will launch sub-categories of this blog that focus on specific business topics – if you like, you can suggest some…

All for now

Steve
The BPIR team