Business Benchmarking |
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Every business faces competition. But
unlike football teams, in business you don’t have the luxury
of league tables to tell you how you are performing against your
rivals. So you are not quite sure if you are a Champions League
contender or in the relegation battle. Benchmarking takes an objective
look at your business and compares you against other similar sized
companies in your market sector. |
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The resulting report identifies your
strengths, weaknesses and provides an objective view of your performance
based on real measures. The resulting information is analysed by
a skilled consultant (who has carried out in excess of 300 benchmarks)
to identify the route causes of any weaknesses and their effects
on other parts of the business. The report and consultation will
explore the cause and effect analysis and help you to define an
action plan to achieve improvements. |
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The Benchmark tool is a focused strategic
planning tool that provides you with a holistic view of your business
performance helping you to understand the drivers behind movement
(up and down) of business results. These drivers fall into four
categories based around the Balanced Scorecard:- |
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Without specific knowledge of these
drivers and how they affect the business, your organisation might
spend much time, money and effort and achieve very little. |
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The benchmarking process is the perfect
tool to help develop a strategic
plan for the future – contact us to find out more. |
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“Benchmarking has proved to
be one of the most powerful and
valuable business development tools for many years” |
Cranfield School of Management |
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The Benchmark Index is a great way to
start a business improvement programme and was adopted by a company
in the forestry sector. The process gave an objective view of the
company’s strengths and weaknesses as compared with their
peers and helped in setting objective targets for improvement. The
process was coupled with an ongoing monthly mentoring session to
support the implementation phase of the project.
The benchmark process was repeated 2 years later and the profits
had increased 4 fold on the back of a similar turnover. |
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“The Benchmark exercise provided a basis for examining
our existing business. Your assistance in analysing our product
range, business sectors and competitors enabled us to decide
which products should be promoted and which ones should be
retired. Following on from this study, we shall launch a new
generation of products early in 2008. Due to the nature of
the Company, this was not something that would have evolved
naturally, it needed an outsider as a catalyst so that the
ideas and beliefs could be realised.
We look forward to continuing the good work with you in the
future.”
David Dalton
Managing Director, Afriso Eurogauge |
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“Graham has carried out over 300 benchmark reviews
in the last 4 years on behalf of Business Link Sussex. Customer
feedback indicates a very high level appreciation of his insight
as well as his ability to identify linkages between problem
areas and action needed to improve business performance.
Graham has delivered Master Class Training for the DTI Benchmarking
Tool throughout the UK, delivered a keynote speech at a National
Seminar on Benchmarking and written a number of articles on
Benchmarking Techniques for specialist Newsletters.”
David Ripley
Business Development & Networks Manager,
Business Link Sussex |
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“Graham is an Associate of Winning Moves and has
championed the Benchmark Index and its economic benefits for
many years. He has a wealth of experience in business improvement
techniques and is a reliable Associate, guaranteed to deliver
positive results.”
Zoe Wallis
Product Champion, Winning Moves |
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