April 10, 2015 by BPIR.com Limited
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Welcome to April edition of the BPIR Newsletter. sharing with you best practices, improvement tools, and events.
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| Best Practice Events |
20 Hottest Startups of 2015, Singapore, 15 Apr., Organiser: SPRING Auditing 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 ** |  |
| BPIR News |
- Employee attitude can create a stellar customer experience….read more
- Why Support Use of the Baldrige Framework?….read more
- What Executives Value in Their CEOs….read more
- Being Too Busy is a Mindset, NOT a Badge of Honour….read more
- Catch My Draft? Dissecting the ISO 9001:2015 draft international standard….read more
- Integrated Management Systems: Unleashing the power of ‘ONE’….read more
- What Are You Waiting For?….read more
- How Do You Rank the World’s Best CEOs?….read more
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| Featured Events: Government Performance and Benchmarking Summit |
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| BPIR service of the Month – More than 130 Best Practice Videos for you to view |
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.
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| Featured Publications |
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 |
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| Featured Case Study: Strategic Partnering |
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:
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. |  |
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March 14, 2015 by BPIR.com Limited
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Welcome to March edition of the BPIR Newsletter. sharing with you best practices, improvement tools, and events.
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| Best Practice Events |
Certificate in Business Excellence, Auckland – New Zealand, 18 Mar, Organiser: New Zealand Business Excellence Foundation (NZBEF) ISO9001:2015 – nothing to panic about?!, Adelaide – Australia, 18 Mar, Organiser: Australian Organisation for Quality (South Australia) Growing strategic financial management capability, Wellington – New Zealand, 19 Mar, Organiser: The Institute of Management Consultants New Zealand (IMCNZ) Business Excellence Briefing for New Organisations, Singapore, 19 Mar., Organiser: SPRING Benchmarking for Excellence, Singapore 26 – 27 Mar., Organiser: Center for Organisational Excellence Research (COER). 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 Government Performance and Benchmarking Summit, Muscat – Oman, 26 – 30 Apr., Organiser: IQPC 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, Organiser: Excellence Canada ** Also see BPIR Events Calendar ** |  |
| Best Practice Report: Mental Toughness |
Setbacks and pressure are part of the fabric of daily life. When faced with problems such as excessive career demands, serious trauma, sickness or sports injuries, people can use mental toughness or resilience to get through the bad times and prepare for the good. Leaders, and the members of their organisational teams, also need resilience to keep them going in the face of relentless stress. Developing the tools and resources to unlock mental toughness has the potential to benefit every aspect of our lives. ….read more |  |
| BPIR News |
- Sustaining Educational Excellence Despite Challenges….read more
- Managing Resistance to Improvement….read more
- Podcast: What it takes to win a Business Excellence award….read more
- Take part in a 5 minute assessment of your organisation’s culture….read more
- More Evidence that Baldrige Criteria Help Organizations Perform Better….read more
- The Art of Root Cause Analysis….read more
- A presentation is the worst possible way to deliver lots of information….read more
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| Featured Events: Government Performance and Benchmarking Summit |
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| BPIR service of the Month – Best Practice Reports |
| Did you know that a free best practice report is published on the BPIR every two months? To see how to access these reports watch this clipOver 50 Best Practice Reports, provide case studies and innovative ideas that will help you stay up-to-date concerning the latest international business trends and practices. As a membership benefit we provide a high quality pdf version of the Best Practice Report – Why not click here to join now? |  |
| Featured Publications |
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 ‘Engineering’ category (one of 23 categories):
See the full list of titles– Engineer
– Equipment Today
– Manufacturing Engineering | – The UMTRI Research Review
– Chemical Engineering Progress
– Engineering Management Journal |
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| Featured Case Study: Sustainable Development (Sustainability) innovations |
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:
Sustainable Development (Sustainability) innovations Domtar Corporation, the largest integrated marketer and manufacturer of uncoated freesheet paper in North America, focussed its early sustainability efforts on the transparency of its fiber supply chain, and then expanded its view of sustainability to focus on manufacturing excellence and optimising efficiency. Targets were set for reductions in greenhouse gas, water and waste. Domtar recaptured steam generated in its operations through co-generation, and produced electrons and used then to either power mills or sold them to the grid In 2013, 76.3% of energy used came from renewable resources and another 3% to 4% on top of that was generated and sold to the grid. Domtar also allowed other companies to set up operations to tap into Domtar’s CO2 emissions and use the CO2 to create carbonic acid, and use it to create precipitated calcium carbonate, or PCC. The companies then sold the PCC back to Domtar who used it’s as a raw material in its pulping process. ……..read more case studies. |  |
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BPIR.com Ltd
Business Performance Improvement Resource (BPIR)
Centre for Organisational Excellence Research (COER)
neil@bpir.com
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February 9, 2015 by BPIR.com Limited
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Welcome to February edition of the BPIR Newsletter. sharing with you best practices, improvement tools, and events. |
| Best Practice Events |
EFQM assessor training, Dubai – UAE, 10 – 12 Feb., Organiser: Dubai Quality group (DQG). The Art & Science of Good Planning, Christchurch, New Zealand, 13 Feb., Organiser: NZ Business Excellence Foundation (NZBEF). Best practices in process management, Ottawa – Canada, 18 Feb., Organiser: Excellence Canada. Business Excellence Winners Sharing Conference, Singapore, 10 Mar., Organiser: SPRING Benchmarking for Excellence, Singapore 26 – 27 Mar., Organiser: Center for Organisational Excellence Research (COER). Government Performance and Benchmarking Summit, Dubai – UAE, 19 – 23 Apr., Organiser: IQPC Government Performance and Benchmarking Summit, Muscat – Oman, 26 – 30 Apr., Organiser: IQPC ** Also see BPIR Events Calendar ** |  |
| BPIR News |
- What Happened to the Leading Edge of Validated Management Practice? – 2015 – 2016 edition of Baldrige Excellence Framework. ….read more
- What are your goals for 2015? – A best practice for setting up goals. ….read more
- The Real Secret to Performance Success – People who are successful, and who have great careers, accomplish this because they actually perform in their current positions and they can show the potential to perform at their next career level.. ….read more
- What Does it Mean to Win the Baldrige Award? – In 1997, Poudre Valley Health System was a single hospital with a 24% annual employee turnover rate and five CEOs in four years; by 2008, it was a Baldrige Award winner. What happened?. ….read more
- Stress at Work: Tips to reduce and manage job stress – excessive stress can interfere with your productivity and impact your physical and emotional health. And your ability to deal with it can mean the difference between success or failure.. ….read more
- Recognizing high performers – Whatever you do in your working life, true career success will come from your ability to perform, to identify performance capability in others. ….read more
- How Portland is tackling the innovation dilemma – We rightly expect a great deal from our municipal governments. Can government be at once cutting-edge and careful?. ….read more
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| BPIR service of the Month – How to search ProQuest database in BPIR.com |
| Do you know that there are more than 1 million articles in ProQuest database in BPIR.com? This is how to search and filter results in ProQuest database. Click here to see a video clip on how to use it. |  |
| Featured Events: Government Performance and Benchmarking Summit |
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| Featured Publications |
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 "Management" category (one of 23 categories):
See the full list of titles– Quality Progress
– Journal of Services Research
– MIT Sloan Management Review | – Journal of Organizational Culture
– Organization Development Journal
– Research Technology Management |
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| Featured Case Study: Cloud computing enables collaboration with partners |
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:
Cloud computing enables collaboration with partners Dignity Health (DH) needed to collaborate more extensively with its business partners and to rapidly provide new services to its physicians and patients. Although it was possible to provide these resources internally the services of cloud computing partner offered the advantages of quick deployment, additional skilled staff, and the use of operating expenses versus capital outlay for the provision of additional infrastructure and servers. For competitive reasons DH’s partners also preferred collaborative data to be housed at neutral sites, which also created fewer legal and compliance challenges. The cloud computing platform not only enabled data to be readily available to partners and physicians it also facilitated the use of various types of device to access it. It was envisaged that cloud services would continue to grow, but it was unlikely the existing legacy systems would ever be incorporated in the cloud. ……..read more case studies. http://search.proquest.com/legacydocview/PQ/2942733331/refurl?accountid=41845 |  |
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Regularly check out the bpir.com for benchmarks, best practices and business excellence. We know you will find valuable knowledge and we always welcome your feedback, so if you have time, please email any comments about our services to feedback@bpir.com. If you are currently not a member of the BPIR, or wish to upgrade your membership then please review our membership offerings at JOIN NOW. you won’t be disappointed. |
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BPIR.com Ltd
Business Performance Improvement Resource (BPIR)
Centre for Organisational Excellence Research (COER)
neil@bpir.com
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December 11, 2014 by BPIR.com Limited
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Seasons Greetings and a Happy New Year from the BPIR team!
Welcome to December’s edition of the BPIR Newsletter. sharing with you best practices, improvement tools, and events.
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| Best Practice Events |
Strategy presentations, Wellington – New Zealand, 11 Dec., Organiser: Institute of Management Consultants New Zealand (IMCNZ). Business Excellence briefing for new organisations, Singapore 16 Dec., Organiser: SPRING Singapore. Submission Writing, Dubai – UAE, 17 – 18 Dec., Organiser: Dubai Quality Group (DQG). Prove it! Organisational results, Auckland – New Zealand, 18 Dec., Organiser: NZ Business Excellence Foundation (NZBEF). Cost of quality future, Toronto – Canada, 18 Dec., Organiser: Excellence Canada. Advanced process improvement tools, Ottawa – Canada, 20 Jan 2015, Organiser: Excellence Canada. Best practices in process management, Ottawa – Canada, 18 Feb 2015, Organiser: Excellence Canada. Benchmarking for Excellence, Singapore 26 – 27 Mar 2015. Organiser: Center for Organisational Excellence Research (COER). ** Also see BPIR Events Calendar ** |  |
| Winners of the 3rd International Best Practice Competition |
The 3rd International Best Practice Competitionwas held at the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry on 24th/25th November.The winner of this event was Al Jazeera International Catering LLC, UAE with a best practice titled “ SPEARS Methodology for Employee Empowerment and Inculcating Excellence”. Runners up were Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), Singapore with a best practice titled “MPA Future Ready Project”, Hospital Plató, Spain with a best practice titled “Health Education Courses in the Street: A Service to the Citizen”, Dubai Police H.Q., UAE with a best practice titled “Virtual; Application”, YES Bank Ltd., India with a best practice titled “Customer Engagement through Social Media”. For further information on the winners and photos click here. Full access to the best practice videos, ppts and case study are provided to members of the BPIR.com.
From left Robby Thommy and Loganathan Murthy from Al Jazeera International Catering LLC with competition judges Dr James Harrington, Professor Tony Bendell and Marc Amblard, Click here for more photos For more information about the competition visit the award website BestPracticeCompetition.com |  |
| Winners of the 3rd Global Benchmarking Award |
The 3rd Global Benchmarking Network’s (GBN) Global Benchmarking Awardwas held at the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry on 24th/25th November. Winner:- Consumer Credit Risk Management Department, OCBC Bank, Singapore
Runners-up: - City Government of Tanauan, Philippines
- Sehat Industrial and Trading Co., Iran
April Kwek from OCBC (2nd left) with GBN chairman Dr Robin Mann (1st left) and award judges Suresh Lulla (3rd left), Hani Shaqlusi and Ahmed Abbas, Click here for more photos For more information about the Global Benchmarking Award visit the award website GlobalBenchmarkingAward.com |  |
| BPIR News |
- Big Q, Little Q, and Baldrige – In the 1980s, Dr. Joseph Juran, coined the term “Big Q” to serve as a quality “umbrella”: little q would encompass goods and those processes directly related to the manufacture of goods. ….read more
- New Zealand Business Excellence Awards – Two Bronze Awards have been awarded in New Zealand’s toughest and most prestigious business performance excellence awards. ….read more
- Armand Feigenbaum, a quality guru, dies at 92 – Armand Feigenbaum, who with his brother, Donald, developed the influential concepts of Total Quality Control and established General Systems Co., has died at 92. ….read more
- Seven organisations win Singapore Quality Award (SQA) 2014 – Seven organisations have won top honours for their commitment towards the business excellence journey, achieving outstanding business performance. ….read more
- Four U.S. organizations honored with 2014 Baldrige National Quality Award – U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker announced that four U.S. organizations are recipients of the 2014 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. ….read more
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| BPIR service of the Month – Business Excellence Models |
This area of the web-site allows users to navigate the databases through a choice of business excellence models (Malcolm Baldrige Model, EFQM Excellence Model, Singapore Quality Award Model, Canadian Framework for Business Excellence, and an overview generic model). Navigation via the models can be used to look at specific categories that correspond to areas within their organisation that have been identified as in need of improvement, or to specific areas of personal interest. Using the model categories to navigate will quickly and effectively lead the user to the information we have researched so far in relation to the areas in question..Click here to see a video clip on how to do it. |  |
| Featured Publications |
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 “Banking and Finance” category (one of 23 categories):
See the full list of titles-Bank News
-Bank Director
-Global Finance | -Business Credit
-Communities & Banking
-Finance & Development |
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| Featured Case Study: Sustainable Business – Walking the talk |
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:
Sustainable Business – Walking the talk After Caesars Entertainment, a US public gaming corporation, had reduced staff by more than 20% due collapsing revenues, employees began developing innovative ways to cut costs, reduce energy consumption and waste, and increase recycling. Once the volunteer effort had been recognised the firm seized the opportunity and created a full-fledged sustainability programme built upon what had been started. The sustainability programme became institutionalised across more than 50 of the firm’s properties. Managers were responsible for specific metrics such as energy reduction, customer impact and employee engagement through a carefully crafted scorecard. The company’s sustainability reputation also droving business value beyond cost cutting. Its properties were better able to attract highly sought-after conference business, and employee retention and customer loyalty began to rise. …..….read more case studies http://members-new.bpir.com/site/emails/2014/12/newsletter.asp |  |
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Regularly check out the bpir.com for benchmarks, best practices and business excellence. We know you will find valuable knowledge and we always welcome your feedback, so if you have time, please email any comments about our services to feedback@bpir.com. If you are currently not a member of the BPIR, or wish to upgrade your membership then please review our membership offerings at JOIN NOW. you won’t be disappointed. |
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Business Performance Improvement Resource (BPIR)
Centre for Organisational Excellence Research (COER)
neil@bpir.com
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November 18, 2014 by BPIR.com Limited
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Welcome to November’s edition of the BPIR Newsletter. sharing with you best practices, improvement tools, and events.
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| Best Practice Events |
13th International Convention on Quality Improvement, Lahore – Pakistan, 17 – 18 Nov., Organiser: PIQC Excellence in measuring the customer experience, Toronto – Canada, 18 Nov., Organiser: Excellence Canada. HR management: workforce focus, Auckland – New Zealand, 20 Nov., Organiser: NZ Business Excellence Foundation (NZBEF). 20th Asia Pacific Quality Conference, Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia 23 – 26 Nov., Organiser: Asia Pacific Quality Organization (APQO) International Best practice Conference, Abu Dhabi – UAE 24 – 25 Nov. Organiser: Center for Organisational Excellence Research (COER). Diagnostic consulting – a revenue driver, Auckland – New Zealand, 26 Nov., Organiser: Institute of Management Consultants New Zealand (IMCNZ). EFQM assessor training, Dubai – UAE, 29 Nov., Organiser: Dubai Quality Group (DQG). Organisational Learning Conference, Abu Dhabi – UAE 30 Nov – 1 Dec, Organiser: Emirates Center for Organisational Learning (ECOL) ** Also see BPIR Events Calendar ** |  |
| Featured Event: 3rd International Best Practice Competition and 3rd Global Benchmarking Award |
The 3rd International Best Practice Competition and 3rd Global Benchmarking Award will be held on the 24th and 25th of November 2014 at the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce. There are 11 countries that are presenting at the best practice competition (India, Iran, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka and UAE). There are more than 30 best practices in 10 areas will be presented. … the winner in 2013 was the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (Singapore) and 2012, Curtin University (Australia). The Best Practice Competition encourages organizations to share their best operational and managerial practices, processes, systems, and initiatives and learn from the experience of others. It provides an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of individuals and teams that have been responsible for creating and/or managing the introduction and deployment of best practices. For more information about the competition visit the competition website BestPracticeCompetition.com and about the Global Benchmarking Award visit the award website GlobalBenchmarkingAward.com | |
| BPIR News |
- EFQM 25 years of Excellence – the Book – Read more and discover about 40 success stories of 25 years of Excellences. ….read more
- Tackling fat cat pay– Is there any link between executive pay level and their level of performance?. ….read more
- Managing conflict at work – Conflict is an inevitable part of organisational life and can take many forms, effective conflict handling is a critical management capability. ….read more
- Innovation is directly related to how you think – The “old ways” of doing things are no longer effective and it’s necessary to integrate innovative thinking into work and environment . ….read more
- Tips from Baldrige award-winning businesses – 4 tips from Baldrige award winners to help you implement business excellence effectively. ….read more
- Hoshin Kanri helps Toyota improve for the long term – How Toyota increased its production without buying companies, buying new automated equipment or buying new plants in low-cost countries. ….read more
- The real harm in multitasking – You’ve likely heard that multitasking is problematic, but new studies show that it kills your performance and may even damage your brain. ….read more
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| BPIR service of the Month – Business Journals and Periodicals Library |
Search for valuable expert opinion / benchmarking information / case studies, or just read your favourite business journals. Full on-line access to over 790 business periodicals from all over the world. Includes some of the most popular in the West and the East! To help you find what you want there are powerful keyword/phrase search engine and options to find and browse specific publications and save selected publication titles on a personal bookshelf.Click here to see a video clip on how to do it. |  |
| Featured Publications |
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 “Business and Economics” category (one of 23 categories):
See the full list of titles-American Economist
-Business Economics
-Baylor Business Review | -The Armed Forces Comptroller
-Administrative Assistant’s Update
-Journal of Southeast Asian Economies |
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| Featured Case Study: Lean begins and ends with the customer |
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:
Lean begins and ends with the customer This best practice case study describes lean manufacturing of aerospace components by Cox Machine Inc.
– Cox focussed on operational excellence via lean initiatives such as 5S, Kaizen events, and cellular manufacturing.
– Cox synchronised customer forecasts, its own forecasts, and supplier forecasts to achieve “Just-In-Time” material delivery. This reduced work-in-process inventory levels and operational expenditure. Material arriving at Cox was delivered directly to a machine cell, avoiding non-value added warehouse storage.
– Cox used two or three machines in a one-piece-flow methodology which further shortened lead times for production.
– At Cox the lean supply chain began and ended with the customer. By utilizing mutually beneficial shipping methods and bar coding delivery times were reduced lowering Cox’s inventory of finished goods. Cox reduced its average quoted lead time from sixteen weeks to four. By using lean transactional processes, Just-In-Time material, one-piece flow cells, and long-term agreements, Cox realized a significant and meaningful increase in inventory turns and available cash. …..….read more case studies
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Regularly check out the bpir.com for benchmarks, best practices and business excellence. We know you will find valuable knowledge and we always welcome your feedback, so if you have time, please email any comments about our services to feedback@bpir.com. If you are currently not a member of the BPIR, or wish to upgrade your membership then please review our membership offerings at JOIN NOW. you won’t be disappointed. |
Regards,Neil Crawford
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General Manager
BPIR.com Ltd
Business Performance Improvement Resource (BPIR)
Centre for Organisational Excellence Research (COER)
neil@bpir.com
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“To know the road ahead, ask those coming back” – Chinese ProverbNote: this newsletter has been sent to you because you have subscribed to it or to the BPIR.com or one of its partner resources or we believe you wish to be on the list for other reasons. Should you wish to unsubscribe please click here or email contacts@bpir.com. |
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