Livonia Technical Services Company

 

29600 Trancrest Avenue

Livonia, MI 48152

VOICE/FAX (248) 474-2035

www.livoniatech.com

 

Benchmarking: Best Practices

 

Who Should Attend

Anyone involved in comparative analysis of products and processes combined with organizational improvement activities.

 

Purpose of the Training

This training program provides an understanding of the major issues involved in creating and driving a system for benchmarking. During this training, you will:

 

·    Discover how a nine step process can be used to guide benchmarking activities

·    See how the tangible outputs of benchmarking can be used to drive a cycle of continual improvement

·    Find out how to generate plans from benchmarking results and turn these plans into actions

·    Understanding why benchmarking is an important strategic issue for any business

 

What You Will Learn

·  How to choose and identify targets for benchmarking

·  How to choose a Benchmarking Action Team (BAT) for better implementation

·  How benchmarking Inputs, Actions, and Outputs are related

·  The how’s and why’s of data collection during any external site visit

·  Why benchmarking alone is useless, and how to put the results to work in your business

·  What planning is needed for external site visits to be effective

·  Why you need strategic guidelines before you start

·  How to choose benchmarking objectives for visits

·  Changing Competition Focus to Customer Focus

·  How to define gaps in performance

·  How to choose issues and scope before you look at anything outside of your organization

·  How to develop Action Plans that work after the visits are over