It's time we step back from benchmarking specific topics and industries to consider the process of performance measurement and benchmarking itself. How should you use benchmarking information? What information should you gather about your company's own internal operations? In general, how should you gather and use performance data? It's important to look inward at your processes, your own ways of thinking, to make sure they still make sense and that you haven't developed any bad habits.
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Benchmarking State of the Art: Thinking About Metrics and IT Performance
Posted August 1, 2005 | Technology | Cutter Benchmark Review
About The Author
Robert D. Austin is a Cutter Consortium Fellow and a member of Arthur D. Little's AMP open consulting network. He is a regular speaker at the annual Cutter Summit and often delivers Cutter Bootcamps. Dr. Austin served as a professor on the faculty at Harvard Business School for more than a decade, and then as Professor of Management of Innovation & Digital Transformation at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. He is currently Professor… Read More
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