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....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

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!

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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

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

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

An overview of differnet applicaion areas or business domains for benchmarking here at tutor2u.net Continue

here is a list of sites that define and describe benchmarking and the benchmarking process. The forst is the most concise and they gradually get more detailed so take your choice! page from University of Cambridge Institute of Engineering for one page overview of benchmarking - vey concise! A more detailed definition of the process is available here from the… Continue