Benchmarking is a way of evaluating performance metrics in a given organization by comparing them to similar performances in one or more (usually external) sources – these may be competing ...

Publicly comparing similar activities can be a powerful driver for change. That was the premise behind the employee satisfaction surveys across the government in the early 2000s. Initially, these ...

Sometimes questions about corporate compliance programs can be more complicated than they first seem. Such was the case when a compliance officer recently asked me, “Can you point to anything specific ...

David McGuire is a leading expert on cost segregation, fixed assets and depreciation law and a co-founder of McGuire Sponsel. Business owners often hear about benchmarking. Go to any management ...

The entrepreneurial community sometimes views the corporate fascination with benchmarking as a symptom of large company conservatism: when you don’t know what to do, check to see what your peers are ...

Whenever you read a PC review or a component review, benchmark results typically accompany it. Such results are most often in the form of numbers, such as a score or a frames-per-second total.

Benchmarking is an organizational tool to drive continuous improvements using best practices. This can translate into increased efficiency and create competitive advantages. Performance metrics ...

Benchmarking an individual security is simple enough--fund performance can be compared with an index or category/peer group, for example, and stocks might be compared with others in the same sector or ...