Entries in the category "Business Relationship Management"

IT business relationship management (BRM) processes, as well as the IT business relationship manager role, can collectively help accelerate cooperation and collaboration across your organization. Pink’s three-day IT Business Relationship Manager™ certification course details the key concepts and core principles of business relationship management that provide participants with a deep understanding of an organization’s business processes, goals, and objectives.

A recent Harvard Business Review article, What Makes Leadership Development Programs Succeed? states that “Every year, global organizations spend more than $60 billion on leadership development programs.”

Regardless of the state of maturity of your organization’s business relationships, Pink Elephant’s IT Business Relationship Manager certification course delivers the knowledge and tools to enable an IT Business Relationship Manager (BRM) to expedite increased value to the business. One of Pink’s unique differentiating...

Do you seek to have strong and integrated IT business relationships, but feel there is a lack of communications or poor communications? If so, this will often result in mistrust, costing an organization wasted time and resources as well as rework, which negatively impact business value. As Troy DuMoulin, Pink...

It’s general knowledge that better communication is the key to a better marriage/partnership. Guess what? That same advice applies to business relationships – now more than ever – especially due to today’s digitally-driven and constantly changing business world.

Forget Being Naughty, It’s Time To Be BRM-Nice!

The camaraderie, goodwill, and harmony of the holiday season should be reflected in our relationships with our colleagues and business partners throughout the year. Rather than assign a business relationship management (BRM) role to a business partner (like a lot of organizations do) and then abandon them to it, embrace the concept. Give the gift of guidance to the BRM role because it’s the gift that keeps on giving.

I find one of the biggest and most prevalent challenges to establishing a BRM capability is to look for a process in which to define your BRM activities. This is a mistake! Business Relationship Management is a practice across many processes rather than a single process in itself.

Business relationship management is a skilled role that is best positioned as a personal connector, facilitator, and leader between the business and the IT organization.