Benchmarking allows comparisons with others to help your development
Benchmarking shows you where you stand in relation to others, and points you in the right direction on what actions you can take.
By looking outside of your own business environment, it gives you a fresh perspective on your business challenges.
Too many choices?
When faced with a multitude of possibilities for developing your business, it’s often hard to know which will give the best results.
Do you minimise risk by spreading resources thinly across a range of different activities, achieving at best small successes, or do you focus on selected areas of your business in the hope of a major breakthrough – but then worry that you may not have chosen the right areas?
Use benchmarking data to help make decisions
Benchmarking contributes real world data that helps you make sound business decisions.
You can take specific aspects of your business, make comparisons with similar businesses, find out what the norms are, and see how you are performing against that benchmark.
You can identify weaker aspects of your business where real change would improve results, and also discover what you are already doing well and should do more of.