The last six VM Insights articles have focused on how regulators can support and improve utility VM. The three following articles, beginning with this one, will focus on the use of benchmarking to ...

From competitor and public policies to non-profit and investor pressures, there is more demand than ever to advance safer chemicals programs at your company. One proven way to help get on the right ...

Mission-support functions are integral to an agency’s operations. These administrative or back-office functions—acquisition, financial management, human capital, information technology and real ...

If you want to control energy consumption, and therefore cost, you must be able to measure it. In that sense, energy benchmarking becomes the single most effective tool you can harness to make ...

Publicly comparing similar activities can be a powerful driver for change. That was the premise behind the employee satisfaction surveys across the government in the early 2000s. Initially, these ...

Businesses often need to evaluate where they are in order to decide where they want to go, and sometimes the best way to do that is by comparing themselves to a standard. “In today’s world of sharing ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... If you don’t know where you’re going you might not get there. – Yogi Berra Now that the mid-term elections are behind us and businesses are closing out the ...

Using benchmarking to develop performance measures is a critical part of creating an IT scorecard. But it is a challenging effort that will require you to commit time and effort both in the initial ...

Hospitals looking to clean up their claims management workflow might benefit from a new partnership between Benchmark Revenue Management and Nebo Systems. Benchmark, a San Diego-based provider of ...