IT organizations use strategic IT/IS benchmarking to assess their performance and identify starting points to improve IT strategy, processes, or operations. However, recent studies report that they are often unable to translate benchmarking results into action and therefore do not gain performance improvements. Research has not yet offered explanations for this discrepancy. Consequently, this s...

Benchmarking robotic technologies is of utmost importance for actual deployment of robotic applications in industrial and every-day environments, therefore many efforts have recently focused on this problem. Among the many different ways of benchmarking robotic systems, scientific competitions are recognized as one of the most effective ways of rapid development of scientific progress in a fiel...

Many companies have been seeking innovative ways to improve performance and sustain competitive advantage. Various strategic techniques and methodologies have been developed for business improvement as a result. Performance benchmarking is one of the business management tools have been proven its effectiveness to maximize performance in many areas. This paper selects “Performance Benchmarking” ...

Greenhouse gas (GHG) benchmarking for allocation serves as rewards for early actions in mitigating GHG emissions by using more advanced technologies. China Hubei launched the carbon emission trading pilot in 2014, with the cement industry represented as a major contributor to the GHG emissions in Hubei. This article is set to establish a general benchmarking framework by describing and calculat...

The goal of dependability benchmarking is to provide generic ways for characterizing the behavior of components and computer systems in the presence of faults, allowing for the quantification of dependability measures. Beyond existing evaluation techniques, dependability benchmarking must provide a reproducible and cost-effective way of performing this evaluation either as stand alone assessmen...

Benchmarking is the practice of establishing the relative performance of a business or enterprise against an appropriate standard, generally industry standards derived from a survey of farms. The Policy Commission into the Future of Farming and Food (2002) highlighted a need to spread and improve benchmarking on farms. The requirements of effective benchmarking are illustrated in a ten step fra...

The authors present a benchmarking study on the companies in the Turkish food industry based on their financial data. The aim is to develop a comprehensive benchmarking framework using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and information visualization. Besides DEA, a traditional tool for financial benchmarking based on financial ratios is also incorporated. The consistency/inconsistency between the ...

Benchmarking systems from a sample of reference buildings need to be developed to conduct benchmarking processes for the energy efficiency of commercial buildings. However, not all benchmarking systems can be adopted by public users (i.e., other non-reference building owners) because of the different methods in developing such systems. An approach for benchmarking the energy efficiency of comme...

An approach is presented to guide the benchmarking of invoice analysis systems, a specific, applied subclass of document analysis systems. The state of the art of benchmarking of document analysis systems is presented, based on the processing levels: Document Page Segmentation, Text Recognition, Document Classification, and Information Extraction. The restriction to invoices enables and require...

As Grids rapidly expand in size and complexity, the task of benchmarking and testing, interactive or unattended, quickly becomes unmanageable. In this article we describe the difficulties of testing/benchmarking resources in large Grid infrastructures and we present the software architecture implementation of GridBench, an extensible tool for testing, benchmarking and ranking of Grid resources....