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Benchmarking: a systematic process of comparing the activities and work processes of an organization or department with those of outstanding organizations or departments in order to...; Benchmarking definition on BNET »

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Which Way to Better Results?: When it comes to making decisions about people issues and programs, intuition isn't enough. To make optimal business decisions, management needs data-based insights. Business metrics and analytics to support business decisions fall into three categories - benchmarking, behavioral analysis, and predictive analytics. While benchmarking reveals how a company compares to...; Tags: Hewitt Associates LLC, predictive analytics, business decision, benchmarking, analysis, analytics, Human Resources; White papers
Guidelines for Benchmarking Contacts: Benchmarking target companies require information from requesting companies so that the request can be routed and evaluated properly. This helps facilitate a timely decision concerning partnership. To enhance the effectiveness of the benchmarking exchange, one should be prepared to respond to the categories of questions presented in this paper. The...; Tags: BetterManagement.com, benchmarking, partnership; White papers
Evaluating and Benchmarking - How Does Your Site Measure Up?: If one does not have a plan, it often manifests itself on the site in the form of poor information architecture and usability. Intranets are especially known for getting out of hand with multiple "Micro-sites", lack of standards and no governance model. The poor person in charge of posting information...; Tags: Intranet, benchmarking, archiving; White papers
The Search for Best Practices: An introduction to the process of Benchmarking: Benchmarking is one of a number of advanced quality improvement methodologies which may be integrated into a Total Quality Management system as it matures. It is the search for best practices that will lead to superior performance in some business activity. It can enable quality improvement efforts to reach new...; Tags: benchmarking, best practice, Total Quality Management, process improvement, performance, business process; White papers
Benchmarking for Graph Transformation: Model Transformation (MT) is a key technology in the model-driven development approach of software engineering that provides automated means to capture the evolution of models and mappings between modeling languages. The pattern and rule-based paradigm of graph transformation is considered a very popular approach for specifying such model transformations. While...; Tags: Performance management, IEEE, benchmarking, model-driven development, software engineering, modeling, performance, software; White papers

Mercedes-Benz: Benchmarking and Corporate Strategy: Mercedes-Benz needed to create the highest standards of service at its customer assistance centers and fend off increased competition in Europe. To create the highest standards of service at its customer assistance centers, Mercedes-Benz, the DaimlerChrysler brand that is one of the world's leading producers of luxury cars and light...; Tags: Quality, benchmarking, Accenture Ltd., standards, strategy, brand, performance; Case studies
Benchmarking - A Right Way and a Wrong Way: Improving supply chain performance while achieving meaningful bottom line results is a challenge supply chain leaders know all too well. Understanding how the supply chain performance compares with others in an industry and what best practices are the most effective can mean the difference between marketplace dominance and extinction. The...; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), supply chain performance, benchmarking, supply chain, best practice, leader, strategy, industry; White papers
Benchmarking Your Core Competencies?: With an advance in the strategy theory the emphasis has shifted from the ever increasing need to improve efficiency - driven by the need to respond to market demands, to a richer understanding of an organisation's core competencies and key value drivers. In today's transparent and truly global business context,...; Tags: Core Competency, Benchmarking, Best Practice, Strategy, Management; White papers
5 Steps For Determining An Employee's Salary: Pay packages have so few rules. They go up and down depending on geography, industry conventions, seniority and the job market, as well as a candidate's background. The salary you set must be high enough to attract top applicants but not so high that it eats into your profits or...; Tags: Benefits, Microsoft Corp., benchmarking, salary, job, training, industry; White papers
Benchmark Finance and Accounting: Build Your Foundation and Achieve Measurable Process Improvement: Benchmarking can reduce costs and cycle times and ultimately provide a competitive advantage. But organizations face many pitfalls in the early stages of the benchmarking process, such as starting with too broad a scope or not allowing enough time for data collection. Download this paper to learn the basics of...; Tags: benchmarking, APQC, accounting, process improvement, competitive advantage, finance; White papers
NRDC's: Benchmarking Air Emissions of the 100 Largest Electric Generation Owners in the U.S. 1970 - 2000: An analysis of federal government data earlier demonstrates astounding reductions. The analysis tracks air quality gains and energy consumption during the 30-year period from 1970-1999. It is derived solely from data produced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the U.S. Department of...; Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, benchmarking, analysis; White papers
Benchmarking: Efficiency and Productivity Analysis for the Energy Industry: Benchmarking - the process of measuring the performance of an organization against an industry standard - enables organizations to identify and quantify potential efficiency and cost improvements. Benchmarking studies are used widely by companies and regulators in all industries to assess efficiency relative to a set of performance measures. ICF...; Tags: Performance management, benchmarking, performance, industry standard, industry, analysis; White papers 2006-11-21
A Combinatorial Methodology For RFID Benchmarking: Nowadays advances in wireless technologies, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) becomes an important enabling technology for logistics and supply chain management systems and beyond. Effective deployment of these systems requires careful selection and seamless integration of RFID components such as tags, readers, middleware and standards. To serve these purposes, benchmarking is...; Tags: RFID, benchmarking, SCM, wireless technology, middleware, logistics, supply chain, radio, wireless, performance; White papers 2006-10-26
Benchmarking: Measuring Up to Your Peers and Leading Practitioners to Shape Your CSR Plans: It's hard to plan a journey unless a person knows his starting point. If his aim is to improve his corporate social responsibility, then benchmarking will tell him where he is now by comparing his current performance with that of other organisations. It'll also provide the person with a clear...; Tags: Benchmarking, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Corporate Law, Leadership, Management, Business Operations; White papers 2006-10-19
The Politics Of Organizational Learning From Performance Measurement: Benchmarking rests on the assumption that it supports organizational learning and innovation but the empirical knowledge that underpins this perceived means - end relationship is limited. This paper explains a framework for analyzing organizational learning outcomes from municipal benchmarking. The framework draws on existing research and incorporates explanatory factors at...; Tags: Strategy, benchmarking, knowledge, network; White papers 2006-09-26
Benchmarking Risk Analysis Practice In The International Water Sector: Risk analysis in the water utility sector is fast becoming explicit. This paper describes application of a capability model to benchmark the risk analysis maturity of a sub-sample of eight water utilities from the USA, the UK and Australia. Our analysis codifies risk analysis practice and offers practical guidance as...; Tags: Benchmarking, Risk Analysis, Strategy, Management; White papers 2006-09-12
Benchmarking for Innovation and Improvement: Benchmarking can help a person: Analyze and improve his processes; Enhance performance; Gather the information the person needs to assess his present and plan his future and identify some better approaches to accomplish his mission, vision, and goals. Benchmarking is not limited to the collection of numbers and comparison of...; Tags: Pennsylvania State University, benchmarking, vision, performance; White papers 2006-08-01
Offsetting The Incentives: Benefits Of Benchmarking In Money Management: Money managers are rewarded for increasing the value of assets under management. This gives a manager an implicit incentive to exploit the well-documented positive fund-flows to relative-performance relationship by manipulating her risk exposure. The misaligned incentives create potentially significant deviations of the manager's policy from that desired by fund investors....; Tags: Sales force management, London Business School, benchmarking, incentive, investor, risk management, benefit; White papers 2006-07-31
Selecting A Bond-Pricing Model For Trading: Benchmarking, Pooling, And Other Issues: Does one make money trading on the deviations between observed bond prices and values proposed by bond-pricing models? We extend Sercu and Wu's work to more models and more data, but we especially refine the methodology. In particular, this paper explains a normal-return benchmark that markedly improves upon the Sercu-Wu...; Tags: benchmarking, bond, pricing strategy; White papers 2006-08-01
Understanding And Measuring eGovernment: International Benchmarking Studies: This paper is aimed at those involved - in planning, in undertaking, in using or in evaluating - the benchmarking or measurement of e-government. It draws on models of e-government and experience of benchmarking to answer four questions: why benchmark e-government? what to benchmark? how to benchmark? how to report?...; Tags: e-government, benchmarking, developing country; White papers 2006-07-27