Siptu nursing convention:Minister for Health Mary Harney yesterday stressed that benchmarking was the "only way forward" in the dispute over nurses' pay and conditions, and she insisted the current ...

The Labour Court document dealing with the ASTI dispute recognises that "teachers have a sustainable case" for a decent pay rise, but says the best way to process its 30 per cent claim is through the ...

Benchmarking is a process by which a company compares its own practices to those of another company, usually a leading company in the same industry. By finding out what a successful competitor does ...

As customers look to take advantage of a competitive IT outsourcing market, benchmarking is more important than ever. Service providers and customers are exploring ways to build a better benchmarking ...

Benchmarking is a systematic and continuous process for measuring products, services or practices against those of the competition so as to gain information to improve performance (APQC 1993).

The utilities that have chosen to remain in the generation game are making a renewed commitment to becoming fitter competitors. From their executive suites on down, in response to the imperatives of ...

Benchmarking is critically important. The old sayings about “What gets measured gets managed” and “If you cannot measure, you cannot improve” are true. We must measure performance, and we must have ...

Arthur C. Clarke, the great science fiction writer, once observed that cave dwellers froze to death on beds of coal—lying on the very resource that could have saved their lives. But they had no way to ...

In the late 1970s, Xerox became the first major U.S. corporation to benchmark. The company analyzed all of its key business functions and then compared the analysis to similar counterparts in other ...

New research paper titled “How to Report and Benchmark Emerging Field-Effect Transistors” was published from researchers at NIST, Purdue University, UCLA, Theiss Research, Peking University, NYU, Imec ...