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Chapter 6Chapter 6
©2001 ©2001 Prentice-HallPrentice-Hall©2001 ©2001 Prentice-HallPrentice-Hall
S. Thomas Foster, Jr.S. Thomas Foster, Jr.Boise State UniversityBoise State University
Slides Prepared bySlides Prepared byBruce R. BarringerBruce R. Barringer
University of Central FloridaUniversity of Central Florida
S. Thomas Foster, Jr.S. Thomas Foster, Jr.Boise State UniversityBoise State University
Slides Prepared bySlides Prepared byBruce R. BarringerBruce R. Barringer
University of Central FloridaUniversity of Central Florida
The Voice of the MarketThe Voice of the Market
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Chapter OverviewSlide 1 of 2
Chapter OverviewSlide 1 of 2
• What Do We Mean by the Voice of the Market?
• Gaining Insight through Benchmarking
• Purposes of Benchmarking
• Difficulties in Monitoring and Measuring Performance
• Commonly Benchmarked Performance Measures
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Chapter OverviewSlide 2 of 2
• Best-in-Class Benchmarking
• Business Process Benchmarking
• Leading and Managing the Benchmarking Effort
• Base-lining and Reengineering
• Problems with Benchmarking
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IntroductionIntroduction
• Different people have different ideas about how to perform similar work.
• We can benefit by exploring different perspectives in designing products and processes.
• Different organizations solve problems differently and take different approaches toward their work.
• It can be helpful to observe how different firms perform tasks.
• A wiser approach would be to benchmark external customer service units in other companies first.
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What Do We Mean By The Voice of the Market?
What Do We Mean By The Voice of the Market?
• Strategy formation results from understanding the customers and the marketplace, as shown in Figure 6.1
• The marketplace includes immediate customers as well as competitor, the customers of competitors, potential competitors, and potential customers.
• Each firms strives to introduce new products, develop innovative processes, and find better ways to satisfy the customer.
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What Do We Mean By The Voice of the Market?
What Do We Mean By The Voice of the Market?
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What Do We Mean By The Voice of the Market?
What Do We Mean By The Voice of the Market?
• Customers can be good sources of information about competitors.
• This type of data gathering should include both strengths and weaknesses of your competitors.
• Information from lost customer can also be externally useful for targeting weaknesses and improving products and services.
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What Do We Mean By The Voice of the Market?
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What Do We Mean By The Voice of the Market?
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• The Voice of the Market– In Chapter 5, we considered how customers
shape markets and how information about customers is obtained.
– However, customers are not the only source of information about the market. One of the best sources of information can be other companies.
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Gaining Insight Through Benchmarking
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Gaining Insight Through Benchmarking
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• Benchmark– A benchmark is an organization recognized
for its exemplary operational performance.
– There are many benchmarks in the world including Toyota for processes, Intel for design, Motorola for training, Scandinavian Airlines for service, and Honda for rapid product development.
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Gaining Insight Through Benchmarking
Gaining Insight Through Benchmarking
• A benchmark is an organization recognized for its exemplary operational performance.
• There are many benchmarks in the world including Toyota for processes, Intel for design, Motorola for training, Scandinavian Airlines for service, and Honda for rapid products development.
• To be benchmark, a company must be willing to open its doors and allow others to view its own operations and tour its facilities.
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Gaining Insight Through Benchmarking
Gaining Insight Through Benchmarking
• Two rationales explain why benchmarking is good business.
• The first originates from Deming’s thought that “ the worst thing for a business is a weak competitor.
• As such, openness provides an impetus to continual improvement.
• An opposite view is that openness can create a competitive advantage through creating psychological barriers to competition.
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Gaining Insight Through Benchmarking
Gaining Insight Through Benchmarking
• Benchmarking is the sharing of information between companies, so that both can improve.
• The first step a benchmarking firm must take is to document current performance.
• If the managers in firm are unsure that they are pursuing a useful plan of action, benchmarking can help them understand how what they are doing stacks up against the master.
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Gaining Insight Through Benchmarking
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Gaining Insight Through Benchmarking
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• Parties to Benchmarking Relationships– There are two parties to each benchmarking
relationship: an initiator firm and a target firm.• The initiator firm is the firm that initiates
contact and studies other firms.• The target firm is the firm that is being
studied (also called the benchmarking partner).
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Gaining Insight Through Benchmarking
Gaining Insight Through Benchmarking
• The role of benchmarking are not static roles.
• As is shown in Table 6.1, there are several types of benchmarking.
• Note that they are not all mutually exclusive.
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Gaining Insight Through Benchmarking
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Gaining Insight Through Benchmarking
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Types of Benchmarking ( Table 6.1)
The goal of financial benchmarking is to perform
financial analysis andcompare the results in an
effort to assess your overallcompetitiveness.
Financial Benchmarking
In process benchmarking,the initiator firm focusestheir observations and
investigation on businessprocesses.
Process Benchmarking
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Gaining Insight Through Benchmarking
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Gaining Insight Through Benchmarking
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Types of Benchmarking ( Table 6.1)
Many firms perform productbenchmarking when
designing new productsor upgrades to current
products.
Product Benchmarking
Allows initiator firms toassess their competitiveposition by comparing
products and services withtarget firms.
Performance Benchmarking
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Gaining Insight Through Benchmarking
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Gaining Insight Through Benchmarking
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Types of Benchmarking ( Table 6.1)
Involves a company focusing its benchmarkingefforts on a single functionto improve the operations
of that function.
Functional Benchmarking
Involves observing howothers compete.
Strategic Benchmarking
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Gaining Insight Through Benchmarking
Gaining Insight Through Benchmarking
• In process benchmarking, it can involves studying process flows, operating systems, process technologies, and the operations of target firms or departments.
• The goal is to identify and observe the best practices from one or more benchmarking firms.
• Xerox is the famous process benchmarking firms.
• Xerox has benchmarked against many companies in an effort to improve its processes.
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Gaining Insight Through Benchmarking
Gaining Insight Through Benchmarking
• In Financial benchmarking, it need not involve direct interaction between initiator firm and the target firms.
• There is interaction between the initiator and third party that gathers this information.
• AS more companies place annual reports on-line, the Internet has become an important tool for benchmarking financial performance.
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• In performance benchmarking, it may include such things as cost structures, various types of productivity performance, speed of concept to market, quality measures, and other performance evaluations.
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Gaining Insight Through Benchmarking
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• In product benchmarking, it often includes reverse engineering or dismantling competitors’ products to understand the strengths and weaknesses of their designs.
• By observing the designs of others, the initiator firm can develop new ideas for product and service design.
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Gaining Insight Through Benchmarking
Gaining Insight Through Benchmarking
• In strategic benchmarking, it typically involves target firms that have won prestigious honors such as the Baldrige Award, the Shingo Prize, or the Deming Prize.
• The focus of this type of benchmarking is to identify the mix of strategies that make these firms successful competitors.
• Such benchmarking can be very time consuming and costly.
• Quality Highlight 6.1 is an example of Lucent Technologies’ strategic benchmarking.
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• In functional benchmarking, an example of this type of benchmarking occurs in purchasing.
• The NAPM provides a framework for networking purchasing professionals, which facilitates the sharing of information about the purchasing function.
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Purposes of BenchmarkingPurposes of Benchmarking
• There are seven primary purposes for benchmarking.
• This purposes require different levels of involvement in the benchmarking activities.
• Time consumption and costs may vary according to the purpose of benchmarking.
• The purposes of benchmarking range from basic learning to achieving world-class leadership.
• The life cycle in Figure 6.2 shows that benchmarking purposes evolve as the firm becomes more mature in its quality journey.
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Purposes of BenchmarkingSlide 2 of 2
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Figure 6.2 Benchmarking Purpose and Quality Maturity
I
Learning from
success
VII
Best-in-world
VI
National leadership
II
Borrowing ideas
III
Best-in-firm
IV
Beating industry
standards
V
Best-in-class
Quality Maturity
World-class Leadership Life Cycle
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Difficulties in Monitoring and Measuring Performance
Difficulties in Monitoring and Measuring Performance
• Financial Measures– Many times firms desire to compare financial
measures between companies when benchmarking.
– This can be a useful activity; however, there can be problems. One of the most significant problems stems from limitations of accounting systems across companies.
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Difficulties in Monitoring and Measuring Performance
Difficulties in Monitoring and Measuring Performance
• Often companies have variations in the way they compute their measures that affect the results.
• Consider the computation of scrap in which a company computes the ratio of cost of goods sold to scrap.
• Scrap efficiency = Cost of goods sold/scrap by company A ---------- (6.1)
• The higher the ratio, the more efficient is the use of these materials.
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Difficulties in Monitoring and Measuring Performance
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• Scrap efficiency = Cost of goods sold/(scrap – recovery) by company B -------- (6.2)
• If the cost of goods sold is the same for both companies, the ratio will be higher for company B.
• The ratio we have focused on is a type of productivity ratio.
• One remedy for the effects of accounting differences on productivity ratio is to compute total factor productivity measures.
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Difficulties in Monitoring and Measuring Performance
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• To understand total factor productivity measures, we first must understand single factor productivity measures.
• Single factor productivity measures are computed as equation (6.3).
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Difficulties in Monitoring and Measuring Performance --
Productivity
Difficulties in Monitoring and Measuring Performance --
Productivity• Single factor productivity = Output/(a single input)
--------- (6.3)• Single factor productivity focuses on scrap material
alone.• Multiple factor productivity = Output/ (the sum of
multiple inputs) ---------- (6.4)• Multiple inputs might include scrap, labor, energy,
materials, equipment, and other measures of inputs.• Total factor productivity = Output/ (Sum of all inputs
to production) ---------- (6.5)
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Difficulties in Monitoring and Measuring Performance
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• Notice that if you focused on plant and equipment productivity, the conclusion would be that the competitor is lagging in productivity.
• Also, notice that labor productivity may be a small part of total productivity.
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Example 6.1: computing productivity Input Firm A Competition
Labor $ 20,000 $ 15,000
P & E 100,000 145,000
Energy 5,500 10,500
Material 220,000 190,000
Sales 425,000 500,000
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• The productivities for the two firms in Example 6.1 is computed as:
Productivity Firm A Competition
Labor 21.25 33.33 P & E 4.25 3.45 Energy 77.27 47.62 Material 1.93 2.63 Total factor 1.23 1.39
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• As can be seen, the total factor productivity measure provides a more complete picture of firm productivity as shown above.
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• Another caveat for comparing measures between companies is based on the Deming arguments such things as work measurement and Management By Objective (MBO).
• To concentrate too much on comparative measures might focus managers on results and not causes.
• This could result in the unfortunate development of numerical goals that ignore the necessity of improving the system of production.
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• Because of the possibility of serial correlation of data, even greater care should be taken when analyzing longitudinal ( time series ) data.
• For example, company researchers might want to compare rates of growth for two companies in assets, sales, and other measures.
• If the data have serial correlation, they might reach the wrong conclusions.
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• The cost accounting conventions and accepted accounting principles can vary greatly between countries.
• For this reason, it is best not to compare accounting figures with foreign companies.
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Commonly Benchmarked Performance
Measures
Commonly Benchmarked Performance
Measures• The measures a firm chooses depends on the
Key Business Factor ( KBFs ) of each particular firm.
• The KBFs are those factors that are significantly related to the business success of the firm.
• Table 6.2 shows the categories of measures that are often gathered in benchmarking studies.
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MeasuresSlide 1 of 5
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1. Financial ratios 2. Productivity ratios
3. Customer-related results 4. Operating results
5. Human resource measures 6. Quality measures
7. Market share data 8. Structural measures
Table 6.2 Benchmarking Data
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• Financial Ratios– Such as ROA or ROI are probably the easiest
to obtain and compare.
– Generally, senior management is keenly interested in these measures to guide their decision making.
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Commonly Benchmarked Performance
Measures
• Productivity Ratios– Are useful in measuring the extent to which a
firm effectively uses the scarce resources that are available to it.
– These include single factor, multifactor, and total factor productivity measures.
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• Customer-Related Results– Include customer satisfaction and comparisons
of customer satisfaction relative to competitors.
– These measures may be in the form of retention, gains, losses, customer perceived, competitive awards, competitive customer ratings, and independent organization evaluations.
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Commonly Benchmarked Performance
Measures• Operating Results
– These are important for monitoring and tracking the effectiveness of company operations.
– These might include cycle times, waste reduction measures, value-added measures, lead times, time for concept-to-market, setup times, present reduction in setup times, and myriad other operating results.
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• Human Resource Measures– These provide important insights into how
effectively the business is being run.– May include employee satisfaction measures,
training expenditures, training expenditures , training hours per year, work system performance, employee effectiveness measures, turnover, safety statistics, absenteeism, and many other data might be important measures for benchmarking.
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Commonly Benchmarked Performance
Measures
• Quality Measures– These can include conformance-based quality
information such as reject rates, capability information, performance information, or other measures.
– These also can include scrap and rework measures, percent defectives, field repairs, costs of quality, and many other metrics.
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Commonly Benchmarked Performance
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• Quality Measures (continued)– These also may include data concerning the
performance of process and time-related statistics.
– Where customer service quality is important, the types of data that are captured often include such things as percentage of customers whose phone calls are answered within seven seconds, average response time for phone inquires, number of people a caller must contract to get a problem resolved, and many other metrics ( or measures) .
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• Market Share Data– As markets are segmented, market share
includes shares in the different markets served by the firm.
– Market share comparisons also are made to determine where the initiator firm ranks in the market.
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Commonly Benchmarked Performance
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• Structural Measures– Include objectives, policies, and procedures
followed by a firm.
– They may include safety, production, accounting, financial, engineering, and other types of structural measures that are used in determining competitiveness.
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Commonly Benchmarked Performance
Measures• Why Collect All of these Measures? - Management by Fact dictates that decisions are
made based on the sound collection and analysis of data.
- The MBNQA criteria are clear about this. - The measures or indicators should be selected to
best represent the factors that lead to improved customer, operational, and financial performance.
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Best-In-Class BenchmarkingBest-In-Class Benchmarking
• Generally, initiator firms will choose to benchmark the best-in-class.
• Best-in-class refers to those firms or organizations that have been recognized as the best in an industry based on some criterion.
• The objective of best-in-class is to provide a basis for continual improvement.
• By continually improving, initiator firms can be become best-in-class too.
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• After becoming a best-in-class firm, it may be difficult to gain new insight and information from direct competitors.
• Therefore, the next level of improvement is called best-of-the best or best-in-the-world.
• It has been suggested that the best-of-the-best benchmarking can lead to breakthrough improvement by causing individuals within firms to look at other industries and to visualize the business in new and different ways.
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• One of the greatest impediments to seeking a benchmarking relationship is the belief that an initiating company or firm is so unique that it cannot learn from other firms because they are different.
• To break this mold, it is useful to see other philosophies and ideas.
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Business Process BenchmarkingSlide 1 of 4
Business Process BenchmarkingSlide 1 of 4
• Business process benchmarking is based on the concept of 5W2H developed by Alan Robinson.
• The 5W2H concept is labeled as such because a business process benchmarking project should result in answers to seven questions (see Table 6.3).
• Five of the question begin with the letter W ( Who, What, When, Where, Why) and the remaining two being with the letter H ( How and How much).
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Business Process BenchmarkingSlide 2 of 4 ( Table 6.3)
Business Process BenchmarkingSlide 2 of 4 ( Table 6.3)
Subject matter What? What is being done?
Can this task be eliminated?
Purpose Why? Why is this task necessary?
Clarify the purpose.
Location Where? Where is it being done?
Does it have to be done there?
Sequence When? When is the best time to do it?
Does it have to be done then?
People Who? Who is doing it?
Should someone else do it?
Why am I doing it?
Type 5W2H Description Countermeasure
Eliminate unnecessary tasks
Change the sequence or combination
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Business Process BenchmarkingSlide 3 of 4 ( Table 6.3) (continued)
Business Process BenchmarkingSlide 3 of 4 ( Table 6.3) (continued)
Method How? How is it being done?
Is this the best method?
Is there some other way?
Cost How much? How much does it cost now?
What will the cost be after
improvement?
Type 5W2H Description Countermeasure
Simplify the task
Select an improvement
method
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Business Process Benchmarking
Business Process Benchmarking
• The 5w2h concept is a good starting point because it focuses the participants in the benchmarking process on the nuts and bold of what is being done.
• The 5w2h questions should be viewed in the context of a process.
• Figure 6.3 contains a diagram of a generic process.
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Business Process BenchmarkingSlide 4 of 4
Business Process BenchmarkingSlide 4 of 4
Figure 6.3 Process Model
InputsInputs ConversionProcess
ConversionProcess OutputOutput After-
SalesProcesses
After-Sales
Processes
OtherFirms
OtherFirms
Control Process Loop
Customer Feedback Loop
Benchmarking Feedback
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Business Process Benchmarking
• In Figure 6.3
• Inputs include the equipment, people, machines, materials, and design that combine to form a product or service.
• Conversion process might include turning sheet steel into chimney pipes or turning wood pulp into paper or, for a shipping service, moving materials from point A to point B.
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Business Process Benchmarking
• In Figure 6.3• The conversion process results in outputs that are
eventually sold to customers.• Notice in Figure 6.3 that there are two feedback loops in
the process.• The first feedback loop results from gathering data from
the process. This is known as the control process.• The second feedback loop in the process is the customer
feedback loop and results from gathering data from the customers.
• A third feedback process can be added by gathering information from competitors through benchmarking.
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Business Process Benchmarking
Business Process Benchmarking
• Figure 6.4 shows what to benchmark at each stage .
• The questions asked are similar to the 5W2H questions posed earlier.
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Business Process Benchmarking
Business Process Benchmarking
• Figure 6.4
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The Xerox Business Process Benchmarking Process
The Xerox Business Process Benchmarking Process
• Xerox applies a formal 10-steps process to benchmarking.
• These steps are shown in Table 6.4
• The process was originally developed by Camp at Xerox but is now used widely by many different organizations.
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The Xerox Business Process Benchmarking Process
Slide 1 of 2 ( Table 6.4)
The Xerox Business Process Benchmarking Process
Slide 1 of 2 ( Table 6.4)
Step 1: Decide what to benchmark
Step 2: Identify whom to benchmark
Step 3: Plan and conduct the investigation
Step 4: Determine the current performance gap
Step 5: Project future performance levels
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The Xerox Business Process Benchmarking Process
Slide 2 of 2 ( Continued) ( Table 6.4)
The Xerox Business Process Benchmarking Process
Slide 2 of 2 ( Continued) ( Table 6.4)Step 6: Communicate benchmark findings and
gain acceptance
Step 7: Revise performance goals
Step 8: Develop action plans
Step 9: Implement specific actions and monitor
progress
Step 10: Recalibrate the benchmarks
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The Xerox Business Process Benchmarking Process
• Figure 6.5 combines these 10 benchmarking steps into five phases of development: planning, analysis, integration, action, and maturity.
• The steps they contain define all of these phases.
• At this stage, benchmarking is an ongoing process that supports continual improvement efforts.
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The Xerox Business Process Benchmarking Process
• Figure 6.5
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The Xerox Business Process Benchmarking Process
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Phase 1: Planning: Identify what to benchmark; identify who to benchmark; and gather data.
A plan for benchmarking is prepared
•Decide what to benchmark
•Identify who to benchmark
•Plan the investigation and conduct it
- Gather necessary information and data
- Observe the best practices
Camp’s Five Phases ( Figure 6.5)
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Phase 2: Analysis: Examine the performance gap and project future performance.
The gap is examined and the performance is assessed against best practices.
•Determine the current performance gap
•Project future performance levels
Camp’s Five Phases (continued)
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Phase 3: Integration: Communicate the findings and develop new goals.
The goals are redefined and incorporated into the planning process.
•Communicate benchmarking findings and gain acceptance
•Revise performance goals
Camp’s Five Phases (continued)
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Phase 4: Action: Take actions, monitor progress, and recalibrate measures as needed.
Best practices are implemented and periodically recalibrated as needed.
•Develop action plans
•Implement actions and monitor progress
•Recalibrate the benchmarks
Camp’s Five Phases (continued)
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Phase 5: Maturity: Achieve the desired state.
Leadership may be achieved.
•Determine when leadership position is attained
•Assess benchmarking as an ongoing process
Camp’s Five Phases (continued)
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Leading and Managing the Benchmarking Effort
Leading and Managing the Benchmarking Effort
• Management must have an understanding of the benchmarking process, the participants involved, and the objectives of the exercise.
• Managing the benchmarking process involves establishing, supporting, and sustaining the benchmarking program.
• To begin the management process, a strategy statement outlining the goals and strategies to be used is developed.
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Leading and Managing the Benchmarking Effort
• Other activities for management include providing management awareness training, establishing a benchmarking competency center, developing guidelines for information sharing, and overseeing the development of a visit protocol.
• Table 6.5 outlines additional management process steps that are included in the Xerox benchmarking model.
• The Xerox process is a very mature and successful benchmarking process.
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Table 6. 5 Process Benchmarking Management Process 1. Strategy statement 10. Document process
2. Set expectations 11. Qualify partners
3. Management and training 12. Follow 10-step process
4. Benchmarking competency center 13. External assistance
5. Guidelines and protocol 14. Benchmarking handbook
6. Network 15. Share successes
7. Champions identification 16. Inspect for benchmarking use
8. Established benchmarking teams 17. Rewards
9. Team skills training
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TrainingTraining is the key to success in all quality management approaches. This is especially true for benchmarking. Participants must have project management skills and be familiar with benchmarking approaches and protocols.
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Leading and Managing the Benchmarking Effort
• Benchmarking carries with it legal liabilities that should be address during the training ( see A Closer Look at Quality 6.1).
• Training should include managerial training, cross-function benchmarking skills training, team training, and documentation training ( flow charting).
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Leading and Managing the Benchmarking Effort
Leading and Managing the Benchmarking Effort
• Outside consultants can be useful in providing training and coaching on benchmarking and other quality-related efforts.
• However, it is best for the firm that is interested in benchmarking to perform the benchmarking with its own employees rather than through consultants, because a self-perpetuated approach creates the best platform for organizational learning.
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Base-lining and Reengineering
Base-lining and Reengineering
• Many firms are facing the important decision to reengineering business processes to enhance productivity, to reduce cost, to improve quality, and to achieve better customer service.
• Two factors are critical to achieving success through reengineering: breadth and depth.
• Breadth refers to the impact of the reengineering process to the entire organization.
• Depth refers to organizational elements such as responsibilities, measurement, information technology, and skills.
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Base-lining and Reengineering
Base-lining and Reengineering
• These dichotomous factors imply that business process reengineering will result in both localized and generalized performance impacts.
• A methodology that can be applied in assessing business process reengineering impacts is base-lining.
• The base-lining process involves identifying measures, establishing time frames for future data collection, gathering data, and analyzing data on an ongoing basis to identify performance trends and changes ( see Figure 6.6).
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Base-lining Process (Figure 6.6)Base-lining Process (Figure 6.6)
Identify Measures
Establish Time Frames
Gather Data
Analyze Data to Identify Trends
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Problems With BenchmarkingSlide 1 of 2
Problems With BenchmarkingSlide 1 of 2
• 1. There is an enormous difficulty obtaining cooperation from other firms in your own industry, unless you happen to be a Fortune 100 firm.
• 2. The predominance of functional benchmarking with firms in non-competing industries makes it difficult to benchmark these firms.
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Problems With BenchmarkingSlide 2 of 2
Problems With BenchmarkingSlide 2 of 2
• 3. Your efforts will be wasted unless you fully understand your own processes before you benchmark against someone else.
• 4. Benchmarking is time consuming and costly.