bpi stands for best practice initiatives and the logo represents the five elements of best practice.

 

Assessing
Planning
Implementing
Monitoring
Improving


The bpi model of best practice has two key benefits. Firstly, it is simple and secondly, it is universal in its application. bpi has applied the model to the development of job performance and satisfaction of senior management and employees, and to the use of customer feedback as a driver of initiatives at both an operational and strategic level.

However before the model can be used to its optimum effect, it is necessary to develop a means by which the current situation can be assessed and future initiatives monitored.

So a diagnostic tool is a prerequisite to using the bpi best practice model. bpi has five such tools, the first four of which have been developed by bpi, whilst the fifth is offered in association with SCCI Ltd in the UK.

The Customer Feedback Survey
The Executive Feedback Survey
The Employee Feedback Survey
Towards Ten Thousand Workgroup Feedback Survey
The SCCI Barometer & Partnership customer/supplier collaboration assesments

While the five surveys use different methodology, the outcomes are the same. They measure the current situation and thus set internal benchmarks against which future performance may be judged. They identify specific issues, weaknesses and problems and, thirdly, they reveal the degree of consensus among the respondents whether they are senior executives, customers, suppliers or workgroup members. In the case of the Customer Feedback Surveys, they also measure performance relative to the competition.