The benchmarking book a how-to-guide to best practice for managers and practitioners

With growing demands for increased operational efficiency and process improvement in organizations of all sizes, more and more companies are turning to benchmarking as a means of setting goals and measuring performance against the products, services and practices of other organizations that are reco...

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Main Author Stapenhurst, Tim
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann, 2009.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780080943329
9780750689052
Physical Description1 online zdroj (xli, 454 pages) : illustrations

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505 0 |a PART I: What is Benchmarking?; Methods of Benchmarking; PART II: The Benchmarking Process; Phase 1 -- Internal Preparation: Selecting a Project and Commissioning a Team; The Team Begins Work; Identifying and Selecting Benchmarking Participants; Metrics and Data; Normalization; How to Identify Benchmarking Metrics; Reviewing and Finalizing Metrics; The Importance of Operational Definitions and How to Create Them; Finalizing the Project Plan and Gaining Management Support; Inviting and Working with Participants. Phase 2 -- Benchmarking Performances: Effective Acquisition of Complete Accurate Data; Turning Data into Recommendations; Finalizing the Report and Other Deliverables. Phase 3 -- Improving Performance: From Report to Improvement; Beyond the Numbers: Gathering Information from Participants; Implementation Considerations; Copying with Understanding; PART III: Managerial and Organizational Aspects of Benchmarking: Management Roles and Responsibilities; An Introduction to Legal Issues and Working with Consultants; PART IV: Case Studies: Benchmarking IT at Citigroup; The Drilling Peformance Review -- The Evolution of a Benchmarking Club; Benchmarking Local Government Services; The Best Practice Club; Bibliography. 
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