Virtual Environment for Innovation Management Technologies

VERITE

Workshop on Benchmarking

Hosted by STEINBEIS

Presentation: Dimitris Milossis

Overview of presentation

What is Benchmarking

Selective current applications in Europe

Potential for co-operations

Proposed workshop subjects

Why Benchmarking?

Need of companies to define the strong and weak points in their performance concerning

Internal business conditions The position of the company in the

market

What is Benchmarking

The estimation of the company or institution performance in relation to

One or many competitors

By defining a set of performance indicators

Benchmarking applications and services

• One-to-one

• One-to-many

Indicative one-to-one application

Best practice Club (www.bpclub.com)

Works between subscribed members for sector based or process based one-to-one Benchmarking

Indicative one-to-many applications

British Department of Trade and Industry “Benchmarking Index” (www.benchmarkindex.com)

URENIO Research unit Benchmarking database (www.urenio.org/benchmark/index.asp)

Indicative database application report

Indicative database application report

Overview of DTI application

4,500 SMEs from 12 countries

At the moment almost 90% are British

150 performance indicators in process based questionnaire modules

Benchmarking diffusion in the UK

Profile of DTI database

Profile of DTI database

Potential of co-operation with DTI

DTI acts on a client-provider basis and one can co-operate only as an advisor of the application.

DTI charges a specific amount per company case and send an automated report

Overview of URENIO application

Currently 300 SMEs from three Greek regions

150 performance indicators

Advantages of URENIO application

It works on-line for:

data inputon-line query according to selection

criteria, Automated production of Benchmarking

report

Advantages of URENIO application

It supports different levels of administration

Consultant-based administrationRegional or national based

administrationCentral administration

VERITE workshop on Benchmarking

Will be hosted by STEINBEIS Europa Zentrum

In a date defined by the VERITE Steering Committee.

Possible workshop subjects

Past experience of experts and partnersCurrent application and Benchmarking

networksConditions for multi-national

applicationsDifficulties concerning local business

conditions

Proposed discussion subjects

Inter-regional network for one-to-one Benchmarking. Potential for use of VERITE portal and DB

A multi-regional database for business performance

Inter-regional network for 1-to-1 Benchmarking

Other current applications and networks in Europe. Potential for co-operations

Potential for a new Benchmarking network based in this partnership

Multi-regional DB for business performance

Possibilities for co-operation between VERITE member regions and other IRE network regions in a common DB

Special interests of partner regions