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Benchmarking Meaning
Benchmarking Definition
Benchmarking features & concept.
Why Benchmarking?
Benchmarking advantages & Disadvantages
Benchmarking Process
Benchmarking Types
What is Benchmarking?
At its simplest, benchmarking means:
"Improving ourselves
by learning from
others."
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WHAT IS BENCHMARKING?
Benchmarking is the process of improving
performance by continuously identifying,
understanding, and adapting outstanding
practices found inside and outside the
organization.
Mining Industry
Company P
Company R
Cement Industry
Company A
Company B
Company C
Client
Company S
Co. D
Company T
Company U
What is Benchmarking?
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Cement Industry
Company A
Company B
Company C
Client
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Benchmarking Meaning
Benchmarking Definition
Benchmarking features & concept.
Why Benchmarking?
Benchmarking advantages & Disadvantages
Benchmarking Process
Benchmarking Types
Outline
Benchmarking Meaning
Benchmarking Definition
Benchmarking features & concept.
Why Benchmarking?
Benchmarking advantages & Disadvantages
Benchmarking Process
Benchmarking Types
BENCHMARKING FEATURES
Benchmarking has three main features:
Processes
Design
Training
Service
Rapid product
development
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Discovering Core
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Discovering
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Above-Average
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Benchmarking Meaning
Benchmarking Definition
Benchmarking features & concept.
Why Benchmarking?
Benchmarking advantages & Disadvantages
Benchmarking Process
Benchmarking Types
Why Benchmarking?
Traditional performance improvement
trends seem not to be sufficient for the
highly competitive markets. In other
words external environment and market
conditions change rapidly
Customers expectations are highly
liquid and are driven by standards set by
best performer. Any product or service
just below these standards may not
catch the eyes of customer.
Prevents the Re-inventing the wheel.
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Why Benchmarking?
Benchmarking gives us the chance of
gaining:
Better Awareness of Ourselves (Us)
What we are doing
How we are doing it
How well we are doing it
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Why Benchmark
Benchmarking is a more efficient way to
make improvements. Managers can
eliminate trials and errors.
Benchmarking speeds up organizations
ability to make improvements. Today,
time is of the essence.
Benchmarking has the ability to bring
your performance up as a whole
significantly.
Learn from others experiences
Set realistic but ambitious targets
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Benchmarking Meaning
Benchmarking Definition
Benchmarking features & concept.
Why Benchmarking?
Benchmarking advantages & Disadvantages
Benchmarking Process
Benchmarking Types
Competitive Strategy
Build core competencies that will help to
sustain competitive advantage
Access to a variety of markets
Perceived benefit of product or service will
increase
Product or service is hard to imitate
Low-cost leader
Disadvantages
What is best for someone else may not
suit you
Poorly defined benchmarks may lead to
wasted effort and meaningless results.
Incorrect comparisons
Reluctance to share information
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Benchmarking Meaning
Benchmarking Definition
Benchmarking features & concept.
Why Benchmarking?
Benchmarking advantages & Disadvantages
Benchmarking Process
Benchmarking Types
A BENCHMARKING PROCESS
1. IDENTIFY WHAT IS TO BE
BENCHMARKED
PLANNING
ANALYSIS
4. DETERMINE CURRENT
PERFORMANCE "GAP"
5. PROJECT FUTURE PERFORMANCE
LEVELS
INTEGRATION
ACTION
MATURITY
PLANNING
Sales
people
We start planning by
identifying the area to
benchmarked.
Customer service
people
Customers
Analysis
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Average
of Peers
Cement Industry
Company A
Company B
Company C
Client
Co. D
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INTERPRETATION
ACTION
Specify tasks
Sequence tasks
Determine resource needs
Establish task schedule
Assign responsibility for each task
Describe expected results
Specify methods for monitoring results
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Benchmarking Meaning
Benchmarking Definition
Benchmarking features & concept.
Why Benchmarking?
Benchmarking advantages & Disadvantages
Benchmarking Process
Benchmarking Types
Types of Benchmarking
On the basis of What is being
compared with other organizations and
Who is being compared with our
organization, we can classify
benchmarking.
What is
Who is being
being
compared with
compared with
our
other
organization
organizations
vs.
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Types of Benchmarking
On the basis of What is being
compared with other organizations we
have four main types. These four major
types of benchmarking are evolutionary
beginning with product, through to
functional (performance), process and
strategic benchmarking.
Process
Performance
Product
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Strategic
Types of Benchmarking
On the basis of Who is being
compared with our organization, we
have these categories:
Best of the Best
Best in Class
International
Generic
Internal vs. External
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Thank
You
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