Working with BestPractice.Club

BestPractice.Club works with sponsors and ecosystem partners who want to help supply-chain leaders reach decision readiness faster — reducing uncertainty, avoiding costly missteps, and increasing the likelihood that change initiatives succeed.

This page explains how partners work with us across the decision journey, from early sense-making through to confident action, and how our content, online sessions, in-person meetings, and Ecosystem Partner pages fit together.

How Ecosystem Partners support decision readiness

1. Orient & frame the decision

At this stage, supply-chain leaders are trying to make sense of what kind of problem they are really facing, what trade-offs are involved, and what questions they need to answer before committing time, money, or organisational attention. The goal is not speed for its own sake, but clarity that allows progress without false starts.

How Ecosystem Partners contribute at this stage

Partners contribute by helping operators sharpen their understanding of the decision in front of them — not by promoting solutions, but by sharing experience, patterns, and lessons learned from similar situations.

  • Practitioner conversations and interviews
  • Insight from existing research or reports framed by this decision stage
  • Decision-stage explainers that surface assumptions and trade-offs

This work is published through Perspectives, our content library designed to support early sense-making and orientation.

All Perspectives are editorially shaped by BestPractice.Club to ensure they are decision-led, experience-based, and relevant across different organisational contexts. Each piece is tagged by decision stage, maturity level, and capability domain, allowing practitioners to self-navigate toward deeper engagement when ready.

2. Test assumptions & build confidence

Once a decision is better framed, leaders typically want to validate their thinking against reality. They are asking whether their assumptions hold, how others have approached similar challenges, and what tends to work — or fail — in practice.This stage is about reducing uncertainty through peer comparison, not finalising a solution.

How Ecosystem Partners contribute at this stage

Partners support this stage by helping create environments where practitioners can test ideas openly and learn from each other without pressure.This is primarily done through online discussion sessions, which:

  • bring together operators facing similar decisions
  • surface live practitioner context that doesn’t appear in formal case studies
  • make trade-offs, sequencing issues, and organisational constraints visible

Sessions are designed to be:

  • practitioner-led
  • discussion-based rather than presentation-drive
  • focused on learning, not pitching

For partners, this stage helps clarify which challenges are most acute, how organisations differ in readiness, and what language practitioners use to describe their problems — all before any in-person commitment is made.

3. Prepare for confident action

By this point, practitioners are closer to action. They are not just asking what to do, but how, when, and with what level of risk. This is where confidence, credibility, and peer validation matter most.

How Ecosystem Partners contribute at this stage

Partners engage through in-person meetings built around practitioner-led roundtables focused on specific decision themes.

Each roundtable:

  • sits within a wider meeting context that explores adjacent decisions
  • is grounded in real operational experience
  • prioritises practical insight over abstract theory

Partners typically participate as Discussion Hosts, often alongside one or more Co-Hosts — practitioners with recent or current experience of the change being discussed.

Co-hosts play a critical role by:

  • grounding discussions in lived experience
  • surfacing real trade-offs and unintended consequences
  • signalling to other participants that the session is worth their time

Their presence helps ensure conversations remain peer-level, candid, and genuinely useful.