Center for Business Practices
1788 Wilmington Pike
Glen Mills, PA 19342
484.450.0100 877.813.5193
 
The Center for Business Practices is a knowledge center created to capture, organize, and transfer business practice knowledge to project stakeholders in order to help them excel in today’s rapidly changing business environment. The CBP promotes effective strategy execution through sound portfolio, program, project, and performance management by capturing best practice knowledge and integrating it into actionable, fact-based information.
 
CBP Research
The CBP conducts original research to help organizations realize maximum benefit from their projects. Research reports cover a wide range of topics, including strategy & projects, project portfolio management, project management maturity, the value of project management, project management training, project control functions, high-performance project teams, and more.
 
CBP Summit: Strategy & Projects
The annual CBP Summit is a dynamic conference that analyses current management issues through presentations, panel discussions, and open forums led by industry leaders and senior practitioners. The summit focuses on Strategy & Projects and the integration of portfolio, program, project, and performance management practices for effective strategy execution.
 
CBP Benchmarking Forum
The CBP Benchmarking Forums are facilitated two-day structured exchanges of best practice knowledge among senior practitioners. Each forum focuses on a particular set of best practices, such as change management, project management office, government project management, project portfolio management.
 
CBP Books
The CBP publishes books through the internationally respected publisher, Taylor & Francis Group (including various imprints: Auerbach Publications, CRC Press, Marcel Dekker). Current titles include The Strategic Project Office, Project Management Maturity Model, Optimizing Human Capital with a Strategic Project Office, Project Portfolio Management Maturity Model, Project Portfolio Management, Managing Multiple Projects, and others.
 
Best Practices e-Advisor
The Best Practices e-Advisor is a free, monthly e-mail newsletter that provides succinct pointers to practices that help organizations better manage their strategy, projects and business processes.
 
CBP Team
  • Jim Pennypacker, Director
  • Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin, Editor-in-Chief
CBP KnowledgeBoard
The Center for Business Practices KnowledgeBoard comprises thought leaders from the management profession.
  • Dr. John R. Adams
  • Dr. David I. Cleland
  • J. Kent Crawford
  • Paul C. Dinsmore
  • Randall Englund
  • Dr. Kevin Grant
  • Joan Knutson
  • Dr. Ginger Levin
  • Dr. Parviz Rad
  • Dr. Kathryn Schwalbe
  • James R. Snyder
  • Dr. Frank Toney
  • Dr. J. Rodney Turner
  • Dr. Jimmie L. West
  • Neal Whitten