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The Business Performance Roundtable

Linking research and practice to achieve excellence in business performance measurement and management

What is it?

A network of executives with a shared desire to improve their organisations' business performance measurement practices
A forum where members challenge, discuss, and learn from each other
A stimulating learning environment where both academic and practice based knowledge is disseminated and the learning experience is shared

Membership benefits

Member quarterly meetings
Participation in research projects
Networking opportunities with like minded executives
Access to latest ideas and practices
Access to Cranfield faculty publications
News and updates on latest thinking
Guest speakers and workshops
Online portal and knowledgebase
Preferential rates for: Executive education programmes, in-company training, specific in-company research projects and consulting

Current and past members

3M UK
Argos
AstraZeneca
B&Q
Balfour Beatty
BNFL
Royal Bank of Scotland
Barclays Bank
Belron International
BP Amoco
British Airways
BT
Cadbury Schweppes
Cap Gemini
De la Rue
DHL International
EDF Energy
Gartner Group
HSBC
Inland Revenue
Kellogs
Land Rover
National Audit Office
National Lottery Commission
The National Trust
Nestle UK
Oxoid
Shell International
Tesco Stores
Thomas Miller
Transport of London
Visa International

How does it work?

Annual fee

There is an annual Membership fee of £3000 + VAT which entitles member firms to 2 places on BPR activities.

Non-competitive environment

The BPR operates on a non-competitive basis (we will not knowingly accept applications for membership from competitors of any existing members without their permission). This enables BPR members to meet and share best practice in an open atmosphere.

Quarterly meetings

The quarterly meetings are key for the functioning of the roundtable. They are devoted to groundbreaking research and best practice applications. These meetings are usually hosted by one of the member organisations or by Cranfield School of Management. They are one to two days in length.

Roundtable research projects topics

Research topics are agreed each year in consultation with members, in response to their main issues or to topics raised by visiting speakers. Recently, the BPR has been researching different ways of managing through measures, extracting value from data, performance reviews, target setting and linking performance measures to pay.

BPR Meeting themes

The BPR focuses its attention on how organisations can use performance measurement and performance data to deliver insights, improve decision making and improve performance.nbsp; Members have discussed issues ranging from data analysis and presentation to managing with measures.

Some examples of presentations at Business Performance Roundtable meetings are:

"Deriving Real Value From The Performance Measurement System" Tony Korycki, BT
"Reflections on Best Practice in Planning and Budgeting Systems" Phil Berrington, Associate Member, IBM Business Consulting Services
"Managing Change and Performance Improvement" Ken Lewis OBE, Director of Dutton Engineering
"The way that Intangibles Drive Corporate Performance at Shell International" Geoff Thomas, Shell International
"The Co-operative Bank's Membership Approach: Measurement & Management" Jayne Beer, Memberships Manger, Co-operative Bank
"The Great Myths of Measurement" Professor Andy Neely, Centre for Business Performance

In addition, specialists in the analysis and interpretation of data and communication of insights from data have lead discussions on how lessons can be applied to performance measurement and management. These have included:

"The Power of the Story" Tim Sheppard, Storyteller
"Extracting value from data: how the detective mind works" Mr. J. Tolson, Ministry of Defence
"Winning Cases with Data - Gathering data & interpreting events, lessons from the Legal profession" Sean Jones, Barrister
"Information Visualisation" Prof. Robert Spence, Imperial College
"Actuary's approach to data analysis" Richard Abramson, Actuary, Watson Wyatt