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Benchmarking

Benchmarking is the practice of comparing business processes and performance metrics to industry bests and best practices from other companies. Dimensions typically measured are quality, time and cost.

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History

Procedure

Technical/product benchmarking

Types

Metric benchmarking

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Benchmarking

Nodes35
Edges34
Triples60
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.057143
Components1

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Benchmarking

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related to Metric benchmarking · 10
Benchmarking → Advanced, Another, DEA, Definitions, In, One, Regression, Such, The, With
related to Cost · 7
Benchmarking → Benchmarking Database Costs, Members, Organizations, The, This, Time Costs, Visit Costs
related to Procedure · 7
Benchmarking → Boxwell's Benchmarking, Competitive Advantage, Kaiser Associates, One, Robert Camp, The, There
related to Technical/product benchmarking · 7
Benchmarking → Data, However, Its, Outsourcing, Such, The, This
related to history · 5
Benchmarking → An, Auerbach Corporation's Standard EDP, In, Reports, The Global Benchmarking Network
related to Tools · 4
Benchmarking → English, Software, Such, The
is a · 3
Benchmarking → Auerbach Corporation's Standard EDP Reports, practice of comparing business processes and performance metrics to industry bests and best practices from other companies, variety of metric definitions used among companies or divisions
related to Types · 3
Benchmarking → Performance, Process, Within
see also · 1
Benchmarking → Global Benchmarking NetworkProject

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Benchmarkingis apractice of comparing business processes and performance metrics to industry bests and best practices from other companies0.90text
Benchmarkingis aAuerbach Corporation's Standard EDP Reports0.90text
Benchmarkingis avariety of metric definitions used among companies or divisions0.90text
focus groupsinstance ofexploratory research techniques0.80text
Human Resourcesinstance ofComplex functions0.80text
Financeinstance ofComplex functions0.80text
Accountinginstance ofComplex functions0.80text
Informationinstance ofComplex functions0.80text
Communication Technology are unlikely to be directly comparable in costinstance ofComplex functions0.80text
efficiency termsinstance ofComplex functions0.80text
may need to be disaggregated into processes to make valid comparison.Best-in-class benchmarking - involves studying the leading competitor or the company that best carries out a specific function.Operational benchmarking embraces everything from staffinginstance ofComplex functions0.80text
productivity to office flowinstance ofComplex functions0.80text

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