New business tool from the Construction Best Practice Programme (CBPP)

Citation

(2001), "New business tool from the Construction Best Practice Programme (CBPP)", Facilities, Vol. 19 No. 13/14. https://doi.org/10.1108/f.2001.06919mab.016

New business tool from the Construction Best Practice Programme (CBPP)

Keywords: Construction industry, Self-assessment, Business excellence model

Is your business striving to improve its performance or embrace best practice? Maybe it suffers from too little time and too many options, or maybe it is just that you cannot decide where to start or what to do next? If you answer "yes" to any of the above questions then it is about time your business started using the Construction Performance Driver – a ground-breaking new business improvement tool from the Construction Best Practice Programme.

Produced by the Construction Best Practice Programme (CBPP)in association with BQC Performance Management Ltd, the Construction Performance Driver is an easy-to-use self-assessment tool, written specifically for use by the construction industry and aimed at helping all businesses to get a focus on what matters most – essential for competitive success in today's rapidly changing world.

Using a model of business excellence, this tool is a means by which your organisation can review its current operations and compare itself with internationally recognised best practice. This tool is derived from the principle that business performance is fundamentally driven by the five key enablers of change:

1. 1.

   leadership;

2. 2.

   policy and strategy;

3. 3.

   people;

4. 4.

   partnerships and resources; and

5. 5.

   processes.

It will help businesses large or small, public or private, to improve upon their current business practices.

Peter Jones the deputy director of CBPP who oversaw the development of the tool said at the recent launch "It has long been recognised that real performance improvement cannot be achieved by any organisation until it can readily identify its strengths and weaknesses and more importantly the reasons behind them. It is only then that it can focus on driving out waste and improving the bottom line. This is where the Construction Performance Driver will be of most use as once completed it will highlight an organisation's strengths, to help it build on the good practice that already exists, but also give a clear indication of the key areas for improvement that may need action."

The first section of this 42-page publication (priced at £29.95 for single copies) looks at the way your business does things and what it is achieving, and should be completed by the key decision makers in your business. Subsequent sections provide optional employee questionnaires to be completed by your workforce in order to obtain further feedback and to test or validate the views of the senior management. A further section provides guidance on the support available from CBPP to help you develop and implement an action plan to address the improvement areas highlighted by the Driver.

To help you make the most of this new tool, and to support its wider use in the industry, the CBPP is also organising a programme of introductory "how to" workshops to explain and develop the use of the tool in more detail and to establish a support network of users.

Copies of the Construction Performance Driver can be obtained on-line from the Construction Best Practice Programme Web site at www.cbpp.org.uk or by telephoning BQC Performance Management on +44 (0) 1473 409962.

For more information about the Construction Performance Driver or to register your interest in attending a workshop please visit the Construction Best Practice Programme Web site or telephone the helpdesk on +44 (0) 845 605 55 56.