Benchmarking, when properly applied, offers organizations an effective means of improving their performance. The fact that customers, employees and business partners are free to choose between market alternatives, makes organizational benchmarking a key competitive tool. Benchmarking can be used to understand performance and provide incentive for non-competitive parts of the organization to improve efficiency.
In today’s dynamic business environment, comparative analysis and best practices can lead to Strategic and Operative performance. Our end-to-end methodology helps organizations plan and execute both internal, external and functional benchmarking studies that deliver actionable improvement recommendations.
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Step 1 : Define, Plan and Collect
- Establish need for benchmarking
- Identify benchmark subject(s)
- Identify partners (superior performers)
- Determine data collection methodology
- Collect internal internal / 3rd party data
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Step 2: Comparison and Analysis
- Assess strengths & weaknesses
- Determine competitive gap
- Validate findings
- Project future performance
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Step 3: Review Results and Action
- Communicate study results
- Establish functional goals
- Develop action plans
- Implement and Monitor
- Recalibrate benchmarks
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