BPM Forum: Business Performance Management

Overview

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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Member Highlights

Nearly 1,000 companies are currently represented as members of the BPM Forum, accounting for well over $500 billion in aggregated annual revenues. These include: Accenture, ACL Services, Ameritrade, Bank of America, BearingPoint, Inc, Biz360, Booz Allen Hamilton, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Canon, Chordiant, Citrix Systems, Inc., Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Deloitte Touche, Daimler Chrysler, Citgo, CNL Hotels & Resorts, Fidelity Investments, FileNet, Fujitsu, The Gap, GEAC, General Electric, Harper Collins Publishers, Hewlett Packard, Hitachi, JP Morgan Chase, IBM, ICN Pharmaceuticals, Inc., National Scientific Corporation, Oracle, Phelps Dodge Corporation, Pinnacle Technology Partners, Inc., Porsche, PPG Industries, Inc, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Quest Industries, Inc., Sabre-Holdings, Safeway, Inc., Saks Incorporated, San Jose State University, Siebel, Singapore Power, Southwest Airlines, Staples, Inc., Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc., Stratascope, Inc., Sun Microsystems, Symantec, T. Rowe Price, TCF National Bank, TD Bank Financial, TEK Digitel, Tickets.com, Toshiba America, Tyco International, Verizon and many more.

The BPM Forum is a high-level, thought leadership forum that attracts senior level executives in operations, finance and information technology, as well as those serving on corporate boards worldwide. All of these individuals are critically challenged today to collectively engage in the process of embracing business performance management practices and solutions.

Business performance management (BPM) -- the practice of enabling organizations to translate strategies into plans, monitor execution, and provide insight to improve financial and operational performance -- has become a critical corporate mandate. Heightened concerns with corporate governance and accountability have created growth opportunities in the market for BPM solutions -- expected to grow to $20 billion by 2005.

Join an elite group of leaders and peers from around the globe. Gain industry leading information, high-level networking opportunities, exclusive invitations to industry events, access to thought leadership programs and more.

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	BPM Forum™ Charter
	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

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	Mission
	To educate global organizations and bring business performance management to the forefront of strategic decision making To develop and share cutting-edge BPM thought leadership, content, best practices, and experiences To help address and alleviate the pressures senior executives are facing in meeting the demands for performance accountability today To create an independent organization that serves as a meeting place for all relevant constituents to learn from and contribute to BPM industry leadership

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	Programs and Services
	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

What's Driving Demand for BPM?

Global Business realities and requirements

Economic and market changes
International business complexity and scope
Optimistic financial and business outlook
Merger, acquisition and consolidation challenges

Financial compliance and regulatory pressures

Accounting and financial scandals in corporate America
Sweeping corporate reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act)
More vigorous scrutiny of corporate governance
Mandate for transparency and accuracy in financial reporting

Need for improved decision making, reporting and control

Incompatible, outmoded information systems across departments
Decision support data discrepancies in key functional areas
Critical operational data not readily accessible or usable
Inefficient and tardy manual reporting practices

Execution and alignment problems in the extended enterprise

Operating units not synchronized with company strategies
Limited access to relevant, timely and cogent information
Lack of collaborative planning between functions, departments, suppliers
Real-time view of operational data not available at all management levels

Strategic imperative for profit and predictable outcomes

Capital conservation and cash flow management priorities
Wall Street's aversion to surprises and poor guidance
Pressure to identify and exploit opportunity and advantage
Imperative to grow and realize a better return on assets
Need to better map, model, and measure performance

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	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

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	Member Mindset

	Join the conversation! The BPM Forum would like all of its members to share with the business performance management community at large, articles or white papers that relate to current issues and developments in corporate governance, compliance (Sarbanes-Oxley, Six Sigma, etc.) and any topics or issues associated with business performance management strategies, execution and best practices. Approved Member Mindset content will appear on the BPM Forum’s Web site and/or will also be featured in our Brainwaves newsletter. For an opportunity to be published or interviewed, please e-mail us and explain what insight you are able contribute to the BPM community. The BPM Forum is comprised of nearly 1,000 members representing companies with more than $500 billion in combined annual revenues. BPM Forum members include influential business line managers and senior executives overseeing enterprise finance, operations, and technology functions. For your Member Mindset submission, please follow these guidelines: Content Lens: People, Process, Policy, Technology, Methodologies, Best Practices and Business Innovation Submissions should inform BPM stakeholders and not be self-promoting Pictures, illustrations and charts to support your submission are welcome Include a brief biography with relevant credentials Maximum 850 words If you have any questions, please contact the BPM Forum through our Web site at: http://www.bpmforum.org/contact.htm or email to: info@bpmforum.org.