BPM Forum (Business Performance Management), Advancing Performance Accountability
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Charter & Description

The BPM Forum is an important organization that helps advance the understanding of business performance management techniques, technologies, and processes in global enterprises. The Forum brings together influential business line managers and senior executives overseeing enterprise finance, operations, and technology functions. Forum members join in the pursuit of innovations in business performance management, the practice of enabling organizations to translate strategies into plans, monitor execution, and provide insight to improve financial and operational performance.

Driven by demands for improved operational conditioning and corporate governance, the BPM Forum helps research, develop and promote cutting-edge methods to strengthen financial management disciplines, drive performance accountability; tighten budgeting and planning practices; strengthen operational visibility and insight; and ensure performance improvements across large organizations.

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The charter of the BPM Forum is to advance the goal of performance accountability and drive the business performance management agenda among executives worldwide. To accomplish this objective, the forum:

  • Promotes the adoption and deployment of BPM practices, processes and enabling technologies within global organizations

  • Harvests the expertise of management consultants, advisors and integrators to create a unifying BPM vision and a receptive organizational climate for institutionalizing performance accountability across the enterprise

  • Facilitates peer interaction, business partnering and professional development among forum members to extend recognition and understanding of BPM

  • Better equips board members with the critical knowledge, information and insight necessary to improve governance, protect shareholder interests and optimize business value

  • Provides commentary, perspective and data on BPM needs assessment, issues, obstacles, value delivery, ROI analysis, and implementation

 
The BPM Forum advisory board and operating committee maps program priorities and the organization's strategic communications agenda. Programs and services center around establishing a high-profile leadership position for the BPM Forum, maintaining a continually updated and centralized repository of aggregated information online, enabling knowledge transfer and member interaction, and servicing key news media, professional publications, affiliated organizations, and conference programs.

Ongoing Activities
  • Conributed article sourcing and media commentary

  • Knowledge bank and content archive

  • Advocacy initiatives around strategic agendas

  • Intimate peer networking programs and events

  • Thought leadership surveys and studies

  • Regular convocations and gatherings

  • Discussion groups and invention sessions

  • Web conferences and online dialogues
 
Values & Benefits

 
  • Improves strategic decision-making processes, delivers consistent metrics and ensures real-time access to integrated information

  • Establishes a holistic approach to the way organizations manage themselves and coordinate relationships with partners and stakeholders

  • Compels organizations to focus resources, improve operational efficiency, manage for profitable results, and leverage opportunities for growth

  • Links individual processes into a coherent system that drives improved efficiencies, corporate agility, faster business cycle times, and optimal resource utilization

  • Empowers every department in a company to set, measure and hit goals; accumulates the results in a way that promotes cross-functional collaboration across the enterprise

  • Shares a holistic view of the enterprise, unifying disparate organizations, managing the complexity and communications, and leveraging the data in operational systems

  • Improves business performance, extending traditional reporting and analysis by unifying the results and management processes across all lines of business
Membership
 
 

The BPM Forum welcomes executives and practitioners in strategy, finance, operations, technology, business innovation and boardroom roles to join our community. Membership is free and we will not share, sell or rent your information. Sign up now »

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