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The nonsense of benchmarking?
Posted 17 September 2013 by
Claire Bremner, Senior Consultant, OPP
Claire Bremner, Senior Consultant, OPP
I met up with an ex-colleague from a previous organisation recently. During our catch-up he bemoaned the fact that a number of his clients wanted to engage in organisational benchmarking without seeming to know why or having a clear idea of how benchmarking might add value. The response to his question “Why?” was “Well, everyone else is doing it so we feel we should too.”
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