Bridging the Chasm: Creating Close-knit IT and C-Suite Relationships
Joe Topinka, award-winning CIO, founder of the CIO Mentor, LLC, published author, and a member of BRM Institute Executive Council recently took the virtual podium to share his thoughts and golden nuggets of professional wisdom with dozens of attendees of the “Bridging the Chasm: Creating Close-knit IT and C-Suite Relationships” BRM Institute webinar. In the […]
BRM Institute Website Under Attack by Cyber Criminals
Today, a 1,000-node-strong botnet operated by unknown cyber criminals began flooding our web server with bogus content requests bringing our website down for several hours. Although the attack is still in progress, thanks to our ISP support, the rogue internet traffic has been brought under control enough to restore access to our website. We have […]
BRMP Certification Preferred – Creating a New Business Standard
Syngenta, one of the world’s leading companies with more than 28,000 employees in some 90 countries dedicated to bringing plant potential to life, has posted an IT Business Relationship Manager (BRM) job with the Business Relationship Management Professional (BRMP®) training and certification as a preferred qualification for candidates to apply. With the BRMP® listed as a preferred […]
Business Relationship Management Lessons from Nature
With spring in full bloom and the summer at our doorsteps, many of us are already exploring the countless treasures of nature. Some of us are heading to the beach, while others are enjoying the pristine beauty of the fields, forests, or mountain ridges. With yet another busy work week behind, many will find a […]
BRM Institute email to use the new BRM.INSTITUTE domain name
If you have been keeping an eye on the recent developments in the internet domain naming standards, you know that they are undergoing an explosive expansion, thanks to the ICANN’s (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) approval of hundreds of new gTLDs (or “Generic TLDs”) in addition to the well-established .COM, .ORG, etc. .INSTITUTE […]
BRM Institute Executive Council Established
It is my great pleasure to announce the formation of the BRM Institute Executive Council. The BRM Institute Executive Council is an advisory team consisting of past or present C-level business executives from leading organizations around the globe, who have a proven expertise in implementing and maximizing the Business Relationship Management capability, share a passion, […]
A Year Ago Today… Our BRM Institute Community and Giving Back to the BRM Profession
Today, One Year Ago Today, Business Relationship Management Institute (BRM Institute) celebrates our one year anniversary of opening BRM Institute community membership enrollment; Today, on behalf of everyone at BRM Institute and the many passionate volunteers, who made it possible, I honor the Business Relationship Management (BRM) pioneers. They are the dedicated men and women, […]
Business Relationship Manager
and Plan Build Run
In this article, we define business relationship management, business relationship manager (BRM), Plan Build Run (PBR), and show how various BRMs act as both pivotal agents of the shared service provider they represent as well as key involved strategic partners to the business units they support through PBR.
Strategic Planning and Business Relationship Management – Tips and Traps from the Field
In our upcoming BRM Institute Webinar Strategic Planning Tools for the BRM (January 31, 11a-12p EST) we will be mainly focused on Strategic Planning Tools and Techniques, so I wanted to lead into that webinar with a few “tips and traps from the field.” These are drawn from some 30 years of strategic planning experience, […]
BRM Certificate of Experience Public Listing
Thank You from Business Relationship Management Institute!
Dear BRM Institute Members and Supporters, When this year began, establishing an industry recognized professional community for Business Relationship Managers, BRM Institute was just a lofty dream the three of us shared. In just nine months, BRM Institute became an international professional association connecting hundreds of BRM professionals into a vibrant global community. BRM Institute […]
Business Relationship Managers and a Sure Way to Catch Purple Squirrels
Business Relationship Managers and a Sure Way to Catch Purple Squirrels Several years back, I was working with a recruiter to find candidates to fill a newly formed BRM team. The recruiter said to me after several months of searching, “Where do you find these BRMs? They are like purple squirrels!” Recruiters have long used the […]
BRMP online course: Sign up now before it’s too late
Due to incredible demand, we are offering another fully interactive Business Relationship Management Professional® or BRMP online course next month. It will be delivered in three full-day Monday sessions, over three weeks. These sessions will be held from 9:00AM to 4:30PM EST, on December 2, 9 and 16. Participants are required to attend each full day of all three sessions. […]
BRM Institute selects APMG-International as its global Accreditation and Certification Partner
Dear Members of the BRM Community, I am pleased to inform you that BRM Institute signed a partnership agreement with APMG-International, a world’s leading professional training accreditation and professional certification exam provider organization. Under this agreement, BRM Institute courses will be made available through APMG-International’s extensive global network of 270 Registered Providers (RPs). APMG-International, whose […]
Why Efforts to Break Down Silos Fail and What Business Relationship Managers Can Do About It
Many companies today are burdened by silos—separate departments optimized for a specific function or set of functions, but pretty much impervious to anything going on around them that does not relate specifically to their functions. We see this across business units, where manufacturing, sales, marketing, distribution and R&D, for example, each operate in their own […]
Business Relationship Manager Meetings with Business Partners
Imagine you are an executive leader for a major corporation looking for strategies to move your business department forward. While enjoying your morning coffee, catching up on emails, you notice the weekly company updates email blast announcing a new BRM (Business Relationship Manager) will be starting next week partnering with your line of business. “What […]
Measuring BRM Performance
Measuring BRM (Business Relationship Manager) performance is an important aspect of a successful BRM role implementation. There is no one-size-fits-all recipe for a BRM performance measurement framework—just as business value definition varies from business partner to business partner and from service provider to service provider. In the spring this year, my colleagues and I published […]
Guest Post: Can a Business Relationship Manager Be Truly Strategic?
By Pete DeLisi The handbook of strategic expertise defines strategy as a means to achieve a goal. On the surface, therefore, it would appear that a Business Relationship Manager (BRM) can be strategic by aligning the business unit IT strategy with the goals of the business unit. In other words, IT would serve as a […]