Benchmarking is a process by which a company compares its own practices to those of another company, usually a leading company in the same industry. By finding out what a successful competitor does ...

The app market is robust and growing. The App Store and Google Play currently offer 2.0 and 3.8 million apps respectively, and mobile apps are expected to generate about 189 billion dollars in revenue ...

Benchmarking is critically important. The old sayings about “What gets measured gets managed” and “If you cannot measure, you cannot improve” are true. We must measure performance, and we must have ...

The Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), a technology alliance of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, has announced a partnership with Phillip Townsend and Associates (PTAI) to ...

In the late 1970s, Xerox became the first major U.S. corporation to benchmark. The company analyzed all of its key business functions and then compared the analysis to similar counterparts in other ...

As customers look to take advantage of a competitive IT outsourcing market, benchmarking is more important than ever. Service providers and customers are exploring ways to build a better benchmarking ...

Q: How do you advise others to best prepare for a benchmarking trip to another facility? A: While research and study are essential to building your basic understanding of Lean principles and reading ...

A short guide to the benchmarling process. What is benchmarking? The process began in 2000 as a response to unrest in the public service over pay. It was agreed by both the Government and the public ...

When ambulatory surgery centers compare their performance to benchmarks at other centers, they are satisfying accreditors and opening the door to their own self-improvement, says Bunny Twiford, RN, ...

This article investigates what defines a best-in-class QC lab based on experience of implementing operational improvement projects in world-class labs. It includes an assessment of a benchmarking ...