{"id":7903,"date":"2022-03-09T14:48:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T19:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/env-8605394.mightybox.site\/?post_type=news&#038;p=7903"},"modified":"2024-09-24T13:38:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T17:38:17","slug":"blog-improve-your-business-performance-with-effective-benchmarking-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techservealliance.org\/blog-improve-your-business-performance-with-effective-benchmarking-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"BLOG: Improve Your Business Performance with Effective Benchmarking Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this highly competitive world, there is an increasing need to tailor and incorporate practices that can drive growth. Benchmarking is one such tool that is crucial for business performance and to keep you in competition with the best-in-class companies. Brian Rickel, COO of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.profitplanninggroup.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Profit Planning Group (PPG)<\/a>&nbsp;discusses the objectives of benchmarking and how it can help IT and engineering staffing companies externally compare their own practices with those of the industry&#8217;s best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Objectives Of Benchmarking<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Identifying the key-performance metrics of a product, service, or process<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Choosing companies to benchmark<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gathering data on practices<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Analyzing the data and identifying areas of improvement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Continuous Improvement and Benchmarking<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Benchmarking is equivalent to continuous improvement. It is a process of comparing your industry metrics with those of your peers to identify gaps in your performance and find opportunities to improve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Benchmarking establishes a guide for setting achievable goals or reasonable goals, rather than out-of-the-world goals that you won&#8217;t be able to achieve,&#8221; Brian said. This practice is establishing a realistic approach to continuous improvement\u2014a step-by-step guide that can help you drive growth and stability. It\u2019s a continuous process where you measure the performance and do it over and over again to identify whether your practices are effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is a practice where you meet, you plan, you measure, you wait a period of time, you measure again, and you compare your performance with the previous measurement to know whether your changes and plans are effective,\u201d Brian said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Approaching Benchmarking for Your Company<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>So, how do you approach effective benchmarking for your firm? You need reliable, industry-specific metrics and comparative data to start with, and most general sources lack both elements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Profit Planning Group (PPG) is focused on extensive benchmarking and collects data and industry metrics through benchmark studies. TechServe Alliance leverages PPG\u2019s experience and partners with them to collect data and information relevant to the technology staffing industry through the&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/techservealliance.org\/operating-practices-report\/\">TechServe Alliance Operating Practices Report (OPR) survey<\/a>.&nbsp;\u201cIt is important to know that these benchmarks are the only source of that private information for your industry,\u201d Brain said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you go to other sources, they will either lack the data specific to your industry or they will cost you a fortune.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere are some firms, they will offer a benchmarking service that\u2019s usually very costly. And frankly, we don\u2019t know if it\u2019s a perfect service because there is no way they have access to the industry-based data,&#8221; Brain said. So, these surveys are your perfect, crowd-sourced assets, to get industry-specific and reliable metrics. It is your road to effective benchmarking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/techservealliance.org\/operating-practices-report\/\">TechServe Alliance OPR survey<\/a>&nbsp;is the perfect opportunity to approach effective industry-specific benchmarking for your IT and engineering staffing firm. Participation in this survey will bring mutual benefit to your business and your community members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMost companies need these benchmarks to test their performance and gauge their performance,\u201d Brian added \u201cSo, it\u2019s a mutually symbiotic thing where the industry community and individual members mutually benefit from the participation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TechServe Alliance members can access&nbsp;<strong>Participating in the OPR &amp; Sales and Recruiter Metrics Survey Made Easy<\/strong>&nbsp;webinar through the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/tsa.mycrowdwisdom.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TechServe Online Learning Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this highly competitive world, there is an increasing need to tailor and incorporate practices that can drive growth. 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