Never, never use a single metric to draw conclusions. It takes three or four to produce a sound conclusion. Look at cost, but also look at equipment reliability, staffing, basic practices in use, and ...

With a sharpened focus on efficiency, quality of care and lower cost, hospital benchmarking is gaining momentum and becoming an effective measurement tool. Becker’s Hospital Review recently published ...

Benchmarking is either an invaluable procurement tool or just a pointless attempt to quantify the immeasurable, says Andrew Jones. Benchmarking is valuable for many reasons. It can measure the ...

When companies use benchmarking, their goal is to identify how their performance compares to other companies and hopefully identify how they can improve costs and performance. Nearly every sizeable ...

Here are the key considerations for using benchmarks to evaluate PC performance—and how to ensure that you choose the right system for current and future needs. While there are many factors that can ...

Due to a growth in demand for sustainability reporting data in recent years, many organizations have begun quantifying and reporting on their greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). Whether companies aim to ...

Traditionally, companies have used various physical specifications, such as processor frequency and cache size, to set a baseline for PC performance. There are two problems with this approach. First, ...