Integration of benchmarking and benchmarking of integration

Knowledge Management Systems and Human Resource Management Policies for Innovation Benchmarking: a Study of ST Ericsson

“…One can look outside of the organization to perform comparisons of both practices and performances enabling the process of acquiring external explicit/tacit knowledge. [9,10]. A benchmark can also be said to be a point of reference from which measurements of any sorts may be made (Webster's Dictionary).…”

Ranking of factors that underlie the drivers of sustainable manufacturing based on their variation in a sample of UK manufacturing plants

“…This paper assumes that a group of manufacturers in the same business environment, such as manufacturers in a certain business sector, should have similar state-of-the-art management systems, similar levels of supply chain integration, and similar customer expectations in issues such the environment. This assumption reflects the ultimate aim of benchmarking for companies as "benchmarking is an approach used for evaluating and improving company performances, by comparing them with the best performing companies" [30] This paper aims to show the areas, represented by factors, where benchmarking is most urgently required in the context of SM.…”

Benchmarking: een methode om te leren

“…De kracht van benchmarking is echter dat het meer is dan kopiëren. Een treffend en klassiek voorbeeld is de introductie door Ford van de lopende band, die in 1916 volledig operationeel werd (Lucertini et al, 1995). Ford werd geïnspireerd dooreen bezoek in 1911 aan een groot abattoir in Chicago.…”