Marketers often ask about benchmark data. But what marketers often forget is that building up benchmark data requires testing and time. Basic metrics can include clickthrough rate or email open rate, ...

Part II of this three-part series moves up the typical utility organization to consider important fleet-level fossil plant operating metrics. This portion of the EUCG-sponsored benchmarking survey ...

Benchmarking is a way of evaluating performance metrics in a given organization by comparing them to similar performances in one or more (usually external) sources – these may be competing ...

In Part III of this three-part report, we look at plant- and fleet-level metrics used to determine compensation. As expected from this EUCG-sponsored benchmarking survey, there is broad use of ...

LAKEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) and Petabyte Technology (Petabyte) launch their highly anticipated AAHA Benchmarking platform, setting new standards for ...

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 ...

Companies love benchmarking data. Its use helps “appropriately” reward managers and line level employees, set tactical improvement targets, and even drive strategic initiatives. Bad benchmarking data ...

The current economic environment makes marketing professionals' ability to produce desired results—as efficiently as possible—top-of-mind. Knowing what to improve and by how much is vital to ...

Founded in 2002, the Australian software maker Atlassian ( TEAM) is an exceptional company in many regards. But foremost, Atlassian is one of the best examples of flywheel SaaS companies yet.

Done well, benchmarks provide a basis for sound decision making. Yet, badly crafted benchmarks are remarkably common. Even worse, a poorly crafted benchmark can intuitively look like a good one, ...

Learn what active risk is and how to calculate it. Understand the methods to evaluate active risk in portfolios and explore examples of funds outperforming benchmarks.