Acceleration of Eco-Operation is a new management mantra aimed at bringing business gain to the value chain through enhanced trading partner visibility, flexibility and new levels of verifiable sustainability across the entire demand and supply ecosystem of global corporations. This BPI Network program looks at how unifying, focusing and controlling complex, globally distributed and highly synchronized value networks in turbulent, unpredictable times requires real-time operational insights down to the product level, accurate sourcing and sell-through intelligence, and relentless dedication to eliminating waste and realizing new efficiencies in all areas of the go-to-market process.

Think Eco-Logical is a milestone thought leadership program that addresses both the environmental side (Eco) of IT sustainability imperatives and the pragmatic side (Logical) of proper business management. Through original content, assembled insight, and contributions from leading industry influencers and associations, Think Eco-LogicalT creates a reservoir of intellectual capital for organizations dealing with the challenges and business opportunities around environmental responsibility in the data center. The program advocates and demonstrates that IT departments can realize new levels of sustainability through reduced power usage and optimized facility utilization while achieving substantial bottom line benefits.

This BPI Network authority leadership campaign in partnership with Blue Arc Corporation now Hitachi Data Systems is committed to escalating executive discussions and sensitizing the market to the critical imperatives for uninterrupted, high-speed access to critical data during high-demand business events, operational disruption, or dislocation.  Uptime @ Crunch Time™ embraced leading IT professionals and business executives to identify and showcase issues, imperatives, challenges, and successes in maintaining continuous data uptime in critical business scenarios.  The program put a strategic spin on data performance, scalability, and resilience to meet the mushrooming data storage demands. 

The Competitive Strategy Roundtable is a special interest group created by the BPI (Business Performance Management) Network™ that focuses on researching and improving processes and methodologies for reducing competitive risk and enhancing competitive performance within the global enterprise. The Roundtable’s research and programs cover such issues as talent management, intellectual property development and protection, financial capital creation, operational efficiency, and strategic planning.

The Global Renewable Energy and Environmental Network (GREEN) is an affinity group of corporate, non-profit, academic and government professionals, who are involved and interested in a wide range of clean energy and sustainability topics. We endeavor to deliver innovative resources, reports and events that advance knowledge and further reflection in a number of different areas, including renewable energy, biofuels, waste management, green building, pollution prevention, smart transportation, sustainable agriculture, environmental education and advocacy. The organization’s partners and members bring considerable industry and technical knowledge to the undertaking as the channels of communication always remain open.

The Lean & Green initiative from the BPI Network increased and enhanced executive discussion and awareness around the ways IT organizations can reduce energy drain and impact business gain by consolidating storage systems, embracing efficient computing practices, and introducing power-saving techniques. The authority leadership program examined ways to address the accelerating energy demands and rampant waste of the data center, along with methods to increase IT yield and data productivity.

Given the velocity of businesses today, the ability to make consistently effective decisions is one of the most vital, yet least understood business processes that impacts performance. Under the aegis of the BPI Network’s DecisionROI Institute, this program focuses on executive decision making -- the initiative is exploring the economics and dynamics of good, bad or deferred decision-making and their impact on the performance, outcome and momentum of business.

This groundbreaking study underscores the gap between management focus on compliance-related issues and IT’s lack of ability to implement critical policies and procedures—while revealing the state of corporate governance and legal discovery readiness, identifying potential vulnerabilities and offering recommendations for improvement.

Brings together concerned marketers from leading service provider organizations and their partners to interact and engage, as well as promote best practice adoption in improving customer satisfaction and retention.

The increasing speed, complexity and turbulence of global business in the 21st Century require organizations to cultivate a new cultural mindset of Market Sense-Ability. Successful companies today have the capacity to understand, predict and respond to changing customer needs, new market directions and shifting competitive dynamics. Companies who achieve this Market Sense-Ability can expect to out-perform their peers.

Go-to-market is a business critical, highly complex, and carefully sequenced process today. However, there can be multiple points of disruption, distress and deficiency in this ecosystem, which is essential to value creation and competitive advantage for any consumer or business marketer. Competitive Gain in the Demand Chain will combine a series of best practice interviews with a comprehensive demand chain performance audit to address how well marketing content and consumables are delivered to the front line and how much this impacts sales effectiveness, revenue generation and customer retention.