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Probably the most comprehensive and informative website world-wide on benchmarking, best practices, performance measurement, business excellence, and general performance improvement. The website provides access to over 150,000 articles and offers hundreds of real-life case studies on organisations around the world, of all sizes and industries, illustrating their performance or best practices, how they have used these practices, and to what effect.

   

Benchmarking Partnerships - have been conducting benchmarking services including benchmarking partnership networks, workshops and strategic brokerage services for nearly 10 years now, covering over 600 organisations both in Australia and internationally. Their benchmarking process enables you to establish partnerships with key people in other organisations so that you can share and leverage knowledge and capability in order to implement sustainable innovations.
   

American Productivity & Quality Centre - a research organisation that solves business problems in the areas of metrics, measurement, best practices, process improvement, benchmarking, and knowledge management.
   
BenchNet - a very comprehensive and very user friendly electronic communication and information system designed specifically for use by individuals and organizations involved in Benchmarking and Process Improvement. TBE's BenchNet provides users with a comprehensive, centralized and specialized forum for all phases of Benchmarking.
   
The Benchmarking Network - an international resource for business process research and metrics. We lead studies with over 3,000 process leaders in over 25 countries. We provide benchmarking training and research to individual companies, professional and trade associations, and industry and process based groups. Since 1992, our over 300 studies have spanned virtually all processes and industries to identify measures and collect data to identify best practices
   
A benchmarking services are the most cost-effective way to access critical information to better manage your business. Built on over ten years of benchmarking studies conducted by PRTM, our databases contain the most in-depth and complete set of benchmarking data available in the market today
   
The Knowledge Management Benchmarking Association™ (KMBA™) - brings together knowledge management professionals from a variety of companies. KMBA™ conducts benchmarking studies to identify practices that improve the effectiveness of Knowledge Management activities
   
The Human Resources Benchmarking Association™ (HRBA™) - shares information to improve productivity, quality and cycle time among Human Resources professionals.
   
Accounting and Finance Benchmarking Consortium™ - is an association of accounting and finance professionals in companies that conducts benchmarking studies to identify the practices that improve the overall operations of the members.
   
Customer Satisfaction Measurement Association™ - an association of companies that conducts benchmarking studies to identify practices that improve customer satisfaction and the overall operations of members.
   
The Information Systems Management Benchmarking Consortium (ISMBC™) - brings together information systems professionals from a variety of companies to conduct targeted studies on issues related to improving the performance and effectiveness of Information Systems organizations. Group studies target operations, procurement, development and maintenance in different environments (including mainframe, client server and personal computing network environments). Subgroups look at the effectiveness of purchased software and implementation best practices.
   
Financial Services and Banking Benchmarking Association™ - dedicated to the analysis and improvement of business processes in the brokerage, investment banking, insurance, commercial banking industry and related industries. Through the exchange of data gathered in benchmarking surveys, members will be able to benefit from the experience of many companies in the industry.
   
Six Sigma Benchmarking - an association of companies whose members conduct benchmarking studies to identify the best practices surrounding "six sigma" that improve the overall operations of the members.
   
The Pharmaceutical Industry Benchmarking Group™ - an association of pharmaceutical companies that conducts benchmarking studies to identify the practices that improve the overall operations of its members
   
The Procurement And Supply-chain Benchmarking Association (PASBA™) - currently a free association of procurement and supply chain organizations within major corporations. PASBA™ conducts benchmarking studies to identify practices that improve the overall operations of the members
   
Shared Services Benchmarking Association - currently a free association of employees of corporations that manage shared services. SSBA™ conducts benchmarking studies to identify practices that improves the overall operations of the members.
   
Health Information Systems & Technology Benchmarking Association™ - is dedicated to the analysis and improvement of business processes in the health care industry and related industries.
   
Association for Benchmarking Health Care™ - links the needs of health care management to processes and techniques to identify leading cross-industry practices.
   
Consortium for Higher Education Benchmarking Analysis™ - provides a forum for the exchange of performance measurements and benchmarking data for all levels of higher education around the world.
   
International Government Benchmarking Association™ (IGBA™) - provides a forum for the exchange of performance measurements and benchmarking data for all levels of government around the world. The association is currently a free organization with fees assessed only when companies want to join specific benchmarking efforts. Membership is limited to individuals employed as regular employees of local, city, state or federal branches of government.
   
Insurance Industry Association For Benchmarking™ (IIAB™) - targets specific information about the effectiveness of management processes in the insurance industry.
   
Telecommunications Benchmarking International Group - Providers of telecommunication services including voice, data, video, internet access, local, long-distance, international,wireless, mobile, cellular, paging, leased lines, or fixed lines, and manufacturers of telecommunications equipment or lines
   
International Contact Center Benchmarking Consortium (ICCBC™) - an association of contact center professionals to compare operating performance and identify the best business practices.