20 Hottest Startups of 2015, Singapore, 15 Apr., Organiser: SPRINGAuditing in the Service Sector, Adelaide – Australia, 15 Apr, Organiser: Australian Organisation for Quality (South Australia)

EFQM Assessor Training, Dubai – UAE, 18 – 20 Apr., Organiser: Dubai Quality Group (DQG)

Government Performance and Benchmarking Summit, Dubai – UAE, 19 – 23 Apr., Organiser: IQPC

Certificate in Business Excellence, Auckland – New Zealand, 22 Apr, Organiser: New Zealand Business Excellence Foundation (NZBEF)

International Consultants Day Forum, Wellington – New Zealand, 18 Jun, Organiser: The Institute of Management Consultants New Zealand (IMCNZ)

18th QMOD-KSQM Int. Joint Conference, Seoul – Korea, 12 – 14 Oct., Organiser: Lunds University, Sweden and KSQM, Korea

Canadian Public Sector Excellence Fair 2015, Ottawa – Canada, 17 Nov., Organiser: Excellence Canada

** Also see BPIR Events Calendar **

The Government Performance and Benchmarking Summit will take place 19-23 April 2015 in Dubai. Speakers include Robby Thommy, Managing Director, of Al Jazeera International Catering LLC’s who won the 3rd International Best Practice Competition with a best practice titled ‘SPEARS Methodology for Employee Empowerment and Inculcating Excellence’. Watch the video of the winning best practice.

The Summit has a fantastic line up of speakers all ready to share their knowledge, practical examples and lessons learned, to improve current practices and procedures to enhance organisational performance and promote forward thinking government.

The Summit includes COER’s Two-Day TRADE Best Practice Benchmarking Certification Course – providing a fast-track for innovation and best practices plus benchmarking certification at Level 1. All 2014 finalists of the GBN’s Global Benchmarking Award were users of the TRADE Best Practice Benchmarking Methodology.

Imagine a website that provides a detailed list of major award winners along with the organisation’s name, award names , a summary report of the award application details, and contact details for the organisations involved. Well wait no longer; an ‘Award Winners Reports‘ section has been recently launched on the BPIR.com. This service offers all of the above-mentioned features, PLUS 100’s of video clips and presentation slides are also available for many of the award entries.
Currently, there four awards listed in the database:
1- Baldrige National Quality Award
2- Singapore Quality Award
3- Best Practice Competition
4- GBN’s Benchmarking Award
The Award Winners Report is a great tool that can help you to find potential benchmarking partners, and to learn from the example of top performing organisations.
Click here to see how it works.

BPIR provides full access to over 790 excellent business publications providing, in total, over 1,000,000 articles and reports. The cost of subscribing to any of these would cover your BPIR membership while allowing you to read, search, and print from 790 top publications!
Here are a few of the titles from the ‘Human Resources’ category (one of 23 categories):
See the full list of titles

-Leadership Excellence -Healthcare Informatics -Journal of Cultural Diversity

-Journal of Corporation Law -Public Personnel Management -Journal of Global Business and Technology

 

Best practice case studies are an important benefit that BPIR.com offers members. Our unique BPIR case studies are formatted as succinct 150 word outlines that have been crafted from more detailed reports. Members can access the original articles as desired because they are all linked to the case studies. Read the following sample case study:

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Strategic Partnering
To reduce transportation costs, delivery distances and CO2 emissions, Ocean Spray, a US growers cooperative, partnered with a competitor, Tropicana, to supply its markets in the Northeast US, Tropicana shipped orange juice by train from Florida to New Jersey and Tropicana was paying to send them back empty. One of Tropicana’s logistics suppliers realised that it and Ocean Spray, a cranberry juice maker based in Massachusetts who had a distribution centre in Florida to meet growing demands for its products in the southern US, could partner to fill the empty trains. The logistics supplier offered to set up a road-and-rail line for Ocean Spray that included a competitive price for Tropicana’s empty boxcars. After initial concerns about partnering closely with a chief competitor, the collaboration went ahead, and Ocean Spray cut its transportation costs by more than 40% and its greenhouse gas emissions by 65%. ……..read more case studies.