At the 19th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago, Lesley Raskin, director of strategy for Surgical Care Affiliates, gave a presentation about critical benchmarking steps for ASCs.

HUMAN RESOURCES Vol. 2009 No. 7 1486 words Four Essential Steps to Effectively Benchmarking a 401 (k) Plan 401 (k) plan sponsors are all too aware of the need to benchmark plan fees. But what is the ...

Benchmarking is the process of drawing meaningful comparisons between a company’s performance and the performance of identified best practices. For many companies, these known best practices can ...

When ambulatory surgery centers compare their performance to benchmarks at other centers, they are satisfying accreditors and opening the door to their own self-improvement, says Bunny Twiford, RN, ...

Benchmarking is a systematic approach to analyzing processes. It can be used in process improvement to measure performance. Further, it can be used to promote and address cultural changes within an ...

Sustainability continues to rapidly rise up commercial real estate stakeholders’ agendas. While there is increased societal pressure for CRE to reduce its impact on the environment, perhaps more ...

When you decide to undertake your own benchmarking project, it’s a strongly recommended best practice to write up a benchmarking plan. For example, the dev architect might propose that the main OLTP ...

Benchmarking is a way of evaluating performance metrics in a given organization by comparing them to similar performances in one or more (usually external) sources – these may be competing ...