Useful Resources

On this page we have alphabetically listed links, by type, to other websites and sources of material that we believe are useful resources in the context of practicing performance optimisation and transformational improvement.

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Biz4ge
Website dedicated to Business Transformation and Business Architecture.
BPM Institute
A peer-to-peer exchange for business process management (BPM) professionals.
Business Architecture Institute
The Business Architecture website as published by the same people that publish the Business Process Management (BPM) Institute website.
Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT)
The pre-eminent independent professional body for individuals associated with logistics, supply chains and all transport throughout their careers.
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)
The CIPD is Europe's largest HR development professional body.
Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (CIPS)
CIPS is an international organisation serving the purchasing and supply profession.
Chartered Management Institute (CMI)
The CMI is the only chartered professional body that is dedicated to management and leadership
Engineering Employers Federation (EEF)
The EEF is the manufacturers' organisation. We are the most powerful force backing UK manufacturing.
Institute for Manufacturing (IfM)
The IfM provides a unique environment for the creation of new ideas and approaches to modern industrial practice - from understanding markets and technologies, through product and process design to operations, distribution and related services.
Institute of Consulting (IoC)
The Institute of Consulting aspires to deliver first class consultants and advisers, working to improve business performance and productivity.
Institute of Operations Management (IOM)
The Institute of Operations Management (IOM) is the principal UK professional society for operations management in manufacturing, service industries and the public sector.
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
The IET is one of the world’s leading professional societies for the engineering and technology community.
Lean Enterprise Academy
The Lean Enterprise Academy is dedicated to pushing forward the frontiers of lean and to spreading lean to every kind of organisation.
Lean Enterprise Institute
The Lean Enterprise Institute, founded in 1997 as a nonprofit education, publishing, and research organisation with a mission to advance lean thinking throughout the world.
Manufacturing Institute
The Manufacturing Institute has been accelerating the transformation at the heart of manufacturing, helping manufacturers to become globally competitive.
Manufacturing.net
Manufacturing.net is a website designed for today's busy manufacturing executives.
open4mgt.com
Load your data and Go Live! We are an innovative and cost-effective 'enterprise class' SaaS business solution provider. We use leading open source software, configured per an extensible business architecture, to deliver real value quickly and reliably!
Richmond Group (RG)
The Richmond Group currently has about 60 members, all of whom are experienced independent consultants in small practices and highly skilled in their chosen areas of specialism.
Works Management
Every month, the UK based Works Management (WM) magazine, ezine and website shares examples of best practice across the entire spectrum of manufacturing business operations.

Reciprocal Links

Amberhill Associates
Project Management & Business consultancy.
Leap Corporate Team Building
UK based company specialising in corporate team building, employee motivation, management training and business growth.
Offices.net
Offices.net offers comprehensive listings of executive offices and short-term, shared and temporary office space for lease throughout the United States.
R&D Tax Credits
Thousands of entrepreneurs are not claiming R&D business tax credits from HMRC and in the past 5 years have left almost £2Billion of unclaimed tax credits on the table!
SaveMyBiz
We are able to offer business rescue advice to individuals or businesses located in England and Wales.
TaxSense
Tax accountants based in Purbrook, Hampshire giving a free no obligation accountancy quotation in relation to our full range of accountancy services.
UK Link Exchange
Find link exchange partners within the UK. All sites are vetted for content.

Useful Downloads

"Right First Time" White Paper
Free, downloadable copy of the "Right First Time" ("RFT") white paper covering introductory details about KzA's innovative and proven "RFT" Model (depicting the problem to be solved) and the related "RFT" Framework (depicting the solution).
Web Conferencing Good Practice Tips & Guidelines
Document containing general advice on effective web conferencing preparation and behaviours for participants, organisers and presenters respectively such that the most positive and productive experience can be achieved for all meeting attendees.
Webex Participant Helpsheet
Document containing Webex Meeting Center web conferencing tool participant help notes.
Webinar PDF: Getting Major Business Change in the Manufacturing Sector “Right First Time” via Business Architecture !
Webinar PDF download of the introductory presentation for manufacturers on the role of Business Architecture in getting major business change initiatives right first time.

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- FREE Webinar – Getting Major Business Change in the Manufacturing Sector ‘Right First Time’ via Business Architecture!
  Webinar Summary: Invested scarce precious resources in planning or executing critical Manufacturing business change? Have the results not met your expectations or the business need? Join the club, but be aware there is a solution! To find out more sign up for this FREE introductory level webinar for senior executives in the Manufacturing sector, on […]
- Business Harmonisation – How Common is Common Enough?
  In Business Process, KPI, MIS and many other contexts the concept of commonality is seen as being very desirable. After all, why should separate parts of the same organisation operate differently and use different systems to do so……it just makes things harder and more costly to implement, share, re-use and/or outsource doesn’t it? Well, there […]
- Data – The Poor Relation with a Big Say
  To some use of the word ‘data’ signals the beginning of one of the most boring, technically esoteric and generally useless topics of discussion they can imagine. Data model, data dictionary, data schema, data cleansing, data coding & classification……or just plain old data. HELP! How much boredom and technophobia can one person be expected to […]
- Innovation on Tap – A Proven Framework for Commercial Innovation
  No Longer a Black Art In bygone days the practice of product, process or service innovation and development in commercial organisations was a black art practiced by marketers, engineers or scientific researchers…..dependent on the industry. There was either no fixed method for doing this work, or the formal methods that existed were proprietary to the […]
- The Ratchet – An Approach to Business Change that Works when Others Won’t
  The ‘Ratchet’ approach is a proven means of making progress in difficult change environments where only CARROTS are available and STICKS are unheard of! What? Unheard of you say! A work environment with ALL carrot and NO stick……it can’t and won’t work, and it doesn’t or shouldn’t exist! Well, if your sentiments are along the […]
- Business Architecture – Virtual Working: A Green Productivity, Cost Containment and Morale Boosting Opportunity ‘All-in-One’
  Is this yet another article about the sort of business architecture that discusses the construction of environmentally friendly, eco-efficient buildings that recycle their own waste for power and have vast acreages of grass for a roof? Nope, sorry, everyone looking for that sort of business architecture article should stop here. Having said that, this busine […]
- Business Architecture – The Power of Knowledge Standardisation and Re-use
  One thing everyone on the Biz4ge team has noticed is that whilst the concept of business architecture is not new, it is not exactly in common use either. We have also noticed that where it is practiced, to demonstrably good effect, tends to be in the larger national or international organisations who are often the […]
- Business Architecture – Your Ticket to Value-led ‘Fast-track’ Delivery
  No doubt there are some of you, who having read the words value-led ‘fast-track’ delivery in the title, are thinking……what? Going down a route involving business architecture and business blueprinting sounds like a recipe for the exact opposite result! We at Biz4ge would like to convince you that it can be otherwise. We certainly will […]
- Business Architecture – Lean-Six-Sigma’s (Un)Natural Bedfellow
  Cats and dogs living in harmony, bright sunshine the weekend of the big BBQ and used car salesmen standing behind their guarantees. These are just a few of the unnatural events that some say also includes business architects and their business blueprints cooperating with lean-six-sigma black belts and their value stream maps. However, on closer […]
- Business Architecture – The Open Road to Open Source Software
  Yippee-ki yi- yay…….that well-worn ‘old west’ cowboy cry that some would not find out of keeping with the popular image in some quarters of open source software. Most of us have heard about open source software and many of us think we have a sense of what it is about. Many of us see it […]

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