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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968216303321

Autore

Patterson James G

Titolo

Benchmarking basics : looking for a better way / / James G. Patterson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Menlo Park, Calif., : Crisp Publications, c1996

ISBN

1-4175-2428-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (94 p.)

Collana

A Fifty-Minute series book

Disciplina

658.5/62

Soggetti

Benchmarking (Management)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-74).

Nota di contenuto

""TITLE""; ""COPYRIGHT""; ""PREFACE""; ""ABOUT THE AUTHOR""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""CONTENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""SECTION I Benchmarking: What About It?""; ""OBJECTIVES""; ""WHAT IS BENCHMARKING?""; ""Understanding Benchmarking: The First Steps""; ""THE ORIGINS OF BENCHMARKING""; ""WHY USE BENCHMARKING?""; ""DEFINE YOUR BENCHMARKING OBJECTIVES""; ""Xerox: A Case in Point""; ""Xerox Benchmarking Partners""; ""OTHER SUCCESSFUL BENCHMARKERS""; ""STATOIL: SUCCESSFUL BENCHMARKING IN EUROPE""; ""A European Benchmarking Success Story""; ""An Historical Example""

""CASE STUDY: A Creative Solution""""SECTION II Why Benchmarking?""; ""WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS TO BENCHMARKING?""; ""OBJECTIONS TO BENCHMARKING""; ""Should You Benchmark?""; ""Convincing Your Boss""; ""SECTION III Types of Benchmarking""; ""SIX TYPES OF BENCHMARKING""; ""Convincing Your Competitor""; ""DECIDING WHAT KIND IS BEST FOR YOU""; ""Internal Benchmarking""; ""Competitive Benchmarking""; ""Collaborative Benchmarking""; ""Shadow Benchmarking""; ""Functional Benchmarking""; ""World-Class Benchmarking""; ""Applying Benchmarking""; ""GOING IT ALONE OR USING A CONSULTANT""

""BENCHMARKING FOR INDIVIDUALS""""Important Questions to Ask""; ""BENCHMARKING FOR SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS""; ""SECTION IV Ready, Set, Go!""; ""BEFORE YOU START TO BENCHMARK""; ""Are You Ready to Benchmark?""; ""What You Should Benchmark""; ""Business Process Rankings""; ""Benchmarking Trends""; ""LEARNING TO BENCHMARK: THE



PDCA CYCLE""; ""BENCHMARKING WITH THE PDCA CYCLE""; ""EXERCISE: Benchmarking Partner Criteria Matrix""; ""BENCHMARKING ACTION PLAN CHECKLIST""; ""PDCA Benchmarking Step-by-Step""; ""THE ETHICS OF BENCHMARKING""; ""SOLUTIONS TO COMMON BENCHMARKING MISTAKES""

""Mistake 1: Lack of Leadership""""Mistake 2: Picking the Wrong People for Your Benchmarking Team""; ""Mistake 3: Failing to Consider Strategic Long-Term Objectives""; ""Mistake 4: Too Many People on the Team""; ""Mistake 5: Teams Taking on Too Much""; ""Mistake 6: Leadership Underestimates Time Commitments""; ""Mistake 7: Picking the Wrong Benchmarking Partners""; ""Mistake 8: Assuming Every Project Needs a Site Visit""; ""Mistake 9: Management Failing to Inspect Benchmarking Results""; ""Mistake 10: Failing to Identify Targets in Advance""; ""Mistake 11: Collecting Too Much Data""

""Mistake 12: Focusing on Numerical Targets Rather Than the Process""""BENCHMARKING QUICK CHECK""; ""BENCHMARKING REVIEW""; ""IN CONCLUSION""; ""SECTION V Appendix""; ""QUALITY AND BENCHMARKING REFERENCES""; ""World Wide Web (WWW) Pages of Interest""; ""Usenet Groups of Interest""; ""THE MALCOLM BALDRIGE NATIONAL QUALITY AWARD CRITERIA""; ""THE MALCOLM BALDRIGE NATIONAL QUALITY AWARD CRITERIA""; ""The Four Elements""; ""1995 BALDRIGE AWARD EXAMINATION CRITERIA�ITEM LISTING""

Sommario/riassunto

This book will teach you how benchmarking is used to improve performance, set quality objectives, and identify and adapt to best processes. Most of us routinely use benchmarking--to measure, match, compare, evaluate--all to establish a standard of what we believe is best. However, the critical elements of our customersa expectations and requirements are often missing. This book adds those elements into the process, and demonstrates six other types of benchmarking, while helping you decide which method will suit your needs.