Benchmarking 2.0

Benchmarking 2.0 - The Future of Benchmarking!

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This forum was created to encourage a dialogue on the present and future of benchmarking and is hosted by Max.Net (UK) Ltd at www.max-net.co.uk. Please register and join the debate!

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Brendan Dunphy

When to Benchmark? And when not....?

This article on Forbes suggests benchmarking peers and competitors may be misleading in times of 'disruption' ie step changes due to technology, changed regulation, economic crises etc; This is not...

Started by Brendan Dunphy in Sample Title Jun 12.

Brendan Dunphy

Joint Venture Farming Group (UK) Benchmarking Results 2008

A good example of a small group of users with a common interest to improve performance and drive-down costs using benchmarking as the tool. Full pdf available at http://www.jvfg.co.uk/Uploads/JVFG%...

Started by Brendan Dunphy in Sample Title Jun 11.

Job Folbert

Marketing through research

Many companies target their markets by circulating case studies and whitepapers. Generating interest for your services in this way is cost effective and yields qualified leads. So: what if you cou...

Tagged: download, upload, generate, leads, whitepaper

Started by Job Folbert in Sample Title Jun 3.

Brendan Dunphy

The future roll of benchmarking in price setting for iron ore

This article from the Guardian explains why there is a move away from benchmark pricing for iron ore (something tha has provided relative stabity for the iron ore industry) unlike for other metals ...

Started by Brendan Dunphy in Sample Title May 29.

Brendan Dunphy

Center for Internet Security Announces Public Release of Consensus Metrics for Information Security

"Organizations struggle to make cost-effective security investment decisions; information security professionals lack widely accepted and unambiguous metrics for decision support. CIS established a...

Started by Brendan Dunphy in Sample Title May 25.

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Job Folbert added a discussion
Marketing through research
Many companies target their markets by circulating case studies and whitepapers. Generating interest for your services in this way is cost effective and yields qualified leads. So: what if you could post your research or abstracts of your researc...
June 3
Brendan Dunphy added a discussion
The future roll of benchmarking in price setting for iron ore
This article from the Guardian explains why there is a move away from benchmark pricing for iron ore (something tha has provided relative stabity for the iron ore industry) unlike for other metals and commodities where price has fluctuated more wi...
May 29
Job Folbert updated their profile
May 24
Giorgio Blengino added a discussion
Five Ways to Use Benchmarking to Cut Information Technology Costs
"Clients are using benchmarking to quickly and cost-effectively assess unsolicited vendor price reduction proposals. Clients and vendors are investigating alternatives to exercising third-party benchmarking clauses. IT organizations are using benc...
March 19
Giorgio Blengino added a discussion
Benchmark study on innovation-based competitiveness
ITIF (The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation) recentrly released a special report to measure the global innovation-based competitiveness of 36 countries and 4 regions. The results of this benchmarking study, based on 16 indicators, sho...
March 16
Giorgio Blengino updated their profile photo
February 16
Giorgio Blengino updated their profile
February 16
Giorgio Blengino added a discussion
BENCHMARK OUTSIDE THE BOX
A new book by Columbia business school professor Bernd Schmitt, 'Big Think Strategy', gives advice to companies about creativity and vision in leadership, long term impact and bold ideas and actions. A 'Big Think' technique can be applied to bench...
February 16

Blog Posts

Brendan Dunphy

New US Healthcare benchmark survey looking for participants....

....see http://sev.prnewswire.com/health-care-hospitals/20090115/AQTH01215012009-1.html for full details.

"CHICAGO, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2009 Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study, one of the leading IT benchmarking tools in health care, is online beginning today. Open to all hospitals and health systems, the survey measures hospital IT activities in five key areas: business processes, customer service, safety and quality, workforce and public health and safety. Participating hospital… Continue

Posted by Brendan Dunphy on January 19, 2009 at 10:49am

Brendan Dunphy

Now on Linked In too!

We have created a Benchmarking group on Linked In where we will cross-post some (though not all) content from this forum in the future. The popularity of Linked In for business users and the recent release of Linked In Groups means we can use it to attract new members and contributors and raise the profile of benchmarking at the same time. Feel free to join the group there too!

… Continue

Posted by Brendan Dunphy on December 30, 2008 at 3:24pm

Brendan Dunphy

BBC Radio 4's 'More or Less: behind the stats'



I just came across this series 'More or Less: behind the stats' . This half-hour programme is broadcast live in the UK at 1330 on Friday afternoons and repeated at 2000 on Sundays on Radio 4. Its also available via po… Continue

Posted by Brendan Dunphy on December 20, 2008 at 10:12am

Brendan Dunphy

Innovation benchmarking - an untapped opportunity?

According to this recently published McKinsey survey Assessing innovation metrics: McKinsey Global Survey Results '49 percent of the respondents say they don’t benchmark themselves against competitors on any of the innovation metrics they use, while 43 percent say that they do.'

McKinsey go on to say 'In addition, though companies typical… Continue

Posted by Brendan Dunphy on December 8, 2008 at 9:30pm

Brendan Dunphy

Benchmarking gets a bad rap from Dan White in Ireland.....

Dan White in this opinion piece "Hey, Minister here's my Budget -- and it really does work" confuses the results of benchmarking and their misuse by those that commissioned the benchmark;

"Bin benchmarking: The first benchmarking report pushed up public sector pay by almost 9pc. The public sector unions were supposed to deliver improved efficiency in retu… Continue

Posted by Brendan Dunphy on December 8, 2008 at 11:58am — 2 Comments

 
 

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