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BEF is an integrated leadership and management system that describes the elements essential to sustainable organisational excellence. It can be used to assess and improve any aspect of an organisation. The BEF looks at 'how are we really performing as an organisation, what are we good at, what do we need to improve?
This will sound familiar to those that have looked at other Quality Management Systems and the more familiar one may be ISO 9000 series.
There are 7 categories of the BEF - Leadership, Customers, Strategy, People, Process Management Improvement and innovation, Information and Knowledge and Success and Sustainability.
Under these 7 categories there are sub-categories that are linked together and the success of the organisation relies on it having sound system and processes in place in all seven. Each category is weighted with a value and you score in each category and that is totalled to give you the organisation's overall score.
The annual self-assessment will show where you are doing well and where you need to put more effort.
In each category you continue to look at your approach to business, deploying the business excellence principles throughout the organisation, the results it has gained and where you need to make improvements.
It is a system based on continual improvement.
Can be hard work but if you are a systematic person it an be a very rewarding challenge with proven outcomes.
