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Corporate environmental benchmarking is difficult with the range and inconsistency of environmental information … corporate benchmarking efforts. They attempt to capture environmental impacts from activities throughout a facility under a … single system and generally follow traditional benchmarking cycles of plan, do, check, and act. However, the systems lack …
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benchmarking principles to redesign an undergraduate course on BPR to achieve continuous improvements. The principles are applied … year EM students. The students are surveyed and areas of redesign and improvements are identified based on benchmarking … of applying benchmarking and CPI methodology in maintaining effective teaching and learning of BPR concepts. More …
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benchmarking the competitiveness of the stock markets in ASEAN economies. By using Diamond Model, the authors propose indicators to …Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the competitiveness of the stock markets in ASEAN 5, which are the … competitive exchange in ASEAN 5 region. It dominates other exchanges in every dimension. It gains its reputation for being the …
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Nations (ASEAN) in light of their remarkable growth in recent years. Design/methodology/approach The authors used various data … envelopment analysis technique to measure the relative efficiency for a sample of 39 banks in four ASEAN countries over 2000 …-2010. Findings The analyses reveal three findings: first, Malaysian banks are more efficient comparatively to the other three ASEAN …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the current state, understanding and opinions of benchmarking in …. Descriptive statistics were drawn from general hotel data, in addition to data pertaining to the understanding of benchmarking and … benchmarking predominated, with the majority of participants understanding benchmarking to be a quality enhancement tool that can …
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The implementation of more complex lean initiatives in the public sector of the economy is critical for quality improvement and survival. Describes the development of an eight‐step paradigm that is being used to assess and benchmark lean practices in the production and operation of military...
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Examines the practical experience of benchmarking in the UK local government sector during the period leading to the … control, benchmarking has been subsumed under the wider practice of performance measurement in the sector. A critical factor … benchmarking: benchmarking as a rigorous and challenging scrutiny of local government processes; and benchmarking as an instrument …
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A theoretical model, which describes continuous improvement and benchmarking processes, was developed. The model was … benchmarking with respect to reducing costs, improving performance, minimising organizational change and assessing performance …
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Reflects on a three‐year project examining the evolving nature of “best practice” benchmarking in UK …‐based organisations. The findings describe the current state of benchmarking and some of its advantages across a wide variety of public … and private sector organisations. Also investigates the disincentives to benchmarking activity experienced by practising …
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Features two case studies. The first of these focuses on Royal Mail, provider of a universal delivery service within the UK. Notes how total quality management has evolved within the organization and how the role of internal good practice has underpinned the development of a continuous...
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