Benchmarking

Study Missions

GP's benchmarking study missions help our clients select appropriate benchmarking targets and goals. We provide logistics support at locations worldwide, including arranging for local contacts and translators. We also facilitate the benchmarking mission, attending tours with clients, prompting questions, and pointing out salient points that might otherwise be overlooked, both during the tours and at the wrap-up sessions.

While our guide materials are comprehensive and have been refined over years of use, they can be fine-tuned and adapted for individual client needs, such as:

• Senior leaders building alignment and focus for major change initiatives
• Senior leaders and planners setting strategy and operating goals
• Technical individuals learning how a benchmark achieves its best-in-class performance

Services Provided

We can provide all, or part, of the following:

• Guidance on what to study and measure
• Research to screen benchmark candidates
• Templates and probing "thought starters"
• Methods for gathering, charting, and displaying data
• Logistics support necessary to schedule visits
• Guidance prior to visits to develop the best approach
• Facilitation during and immediately following the site visit
• Documentation of the findings
• Facilitation to take findings into action and create business results