The BPIR can help you in your work role in many ways. It can also help you grow personally and gain more confidence and enjoyment from your working hours.

Does your organisation prioritise how it allocates its resources?
Undertake a self-assessment of your whole organisation or specific processes to identify strengths and weaknesses. This will help you to prioritise your strategies and projects and allocate resources wisely. Over 50 types of self-assessment are provided including personal development, process-specific and organisational wide assessments (for public and private organisations).

Are you implementing new strategies or processes to improve performance?
If so, save time and money through learning from other organisations - leverage their experience! For instance if you have a customer survey to develop, read first about how other organisations have designed and deployed them. 1000’s of case studies are provided for all business processes and activities showing how organisations have applied 100’s of strategies and business improvement tools.

Are you designing a training programme?
If so, the BPIR has a wealth of business information that can be used to support your training programmes (irrespective of whether your training programmes are on topics such as the balanced scorecard, risk management or customer focus). In addition, the BPIR can be used as an educational resource so that training programme attendees can supplement their understanding of the training topic.

BPIR offers useful tools and support throughout the improvement cycle:

Need to scan the environment for a planning session or you require business research information?
Carry out desktop research across the BPIR’s article database that provides full access to the contents of past and current issues of over 600 business periodicals from across the world.

Need to find a benchmarking partner?
Look first in our award winner database for world-class companies notable for particular performance.

Need to benchmark?
Review our benchmarks across over 800 measures and compare your performance.

Having trouble designing/reviewing a performance measurement system?
Home in on an area of performance or process using our unique business excellence model criteria categorisation system, and take ideas from example measures and expert opinion.

Want to develop personally?
Grow your own value to employers by learning about ways to improve organisational performance, or undertake one of our personal development self-assessments in areas such as time-management, delegation skills or coaching skills.

All this information can be searched by a simple navigation system and through the perspective of a choice of business excellence models (such as the EFQM Business Excellence Model, Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence, Process Classification Index, and soon, Singapore Business Excellence model and Australian Business Excellence Framework). This navigation system is unique to the BPIR and will help your organisation to find information quickly and advance towards business excellence.