Benchmarking for continuous performance improvement: Tactics for success
作者:
Brian M. Kleiner,
期刊:
Environmental Quality Management
(WILEY Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 3,
issue 3
页码: 283-295
ISSN:1088-1913
年代: 1994
DOI:10.1002/tqem.3310030304
出版商: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractBenchmarking is a powerful management technique that can help improve an organization's environmental performance on a number of dimensions. Benchmarking is not a cookbook solution but a systematic process of searching for the organization that is the best at a given process (“best‐in‐class”) and continually adopting or adapting new processes to accelerate improvement. As a continual process including planning, analysis, integration, action, and maturity phases, benchmarking should be integrated into the planning stage of the management system. Once processes are strategically identified, they can be improved within the company's Total Quality Management program. Many benefits, such as teamwork and job satisfaction, accompany benchmarking, but the greatest companywide advantage is becoming more competitive.Finding a suitable partner is crucial to the success of the benchmarking process. This article shows the traditional one‐on‐one approach is the most effective because it saves time and money that allows organizations to learn from each other. In addition, examples of where benchmarking partners may be found, as well as several success indicators in the benchmarking process, are presented. Since the ultimate intent of benchmarking is positive change, the difference between reengineering and continuous performance improvement and the role benchmarking plays in each is als
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