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Benchmarking Knowledge Quiz

Test your understanding of benchmarking concepts and methodologies with this comprehensive quiz designed for professionals and students alike. By participating, you will enhance your knowledge of different types of benchmarking, project proposals, participant selection, and compliance with confidentiality agreements.

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This benchmarking method focuses on a general required result and seldom compares performance using metrics:

Functional

process

Project

None of the above

The most cited problem of this benchmarking type is that no two projects are the same and therefore cannot be benchmarked:

project

facility

Activity

Generic

This benchmarking term allows a detailed study to be made of one process and can often be carried out cross-industry:

Product/service

Generic

Facility

Process

Benchmarking airports, factories, power plants is called

Facility benchmarking

Process benchmarking

generic benchmarking

Project benchmarking

When selecting a project team, some points to consider are:

A) the team should include members from the key areas being benchmarked in order to help ensure buy-in

B) the team should include people with complementary and necessary skills for completing the project

Both a) and b)

When selecting a benchmarking project, the organization should consider:

The benchmarking experience of those who will be involved in the project

Areas that are key to the success of business and where the performance is poor ability of the project to attract support of management and other potential participants

All of the above

When in order to learn faster decision-making, the organization looks for best practices at stock brokers, emergency response teams, Formula 1, this type of benchmarking is referred to as:

generic benchmarking

Product/service benchmarking

Project benchmarking

Process benchmarking

The document which covers the scope, objectives, resource requirements and management authorization on one page is called

A) Project Charter

B) Terms of Reference both

A) and b)

The project proposal is a key document in a benchmarking study because it may be used for:

Persuading management and participants

Guiding the project

Measuring the success

all of the above

Ideal benchmarking participants are

World-class performers in the aspect that we want to benchmark

Located nearby

In our industry, I.e. With similar commercial environment, structures, metrics

all of the above

Benchmarking, which is carried out within the organization, is called

Competitive benchmarking

Non-competitive benchmarking

Internal benchmarking

Cross-industry benchmarking

Benchmarking, which is carried out within the industry between non-competitors, is called

Non-competitive benchmarking

Cross-industry benchmarking

Internal benchmarking

Competitive benchmarking

Benchmarking that is carried out between organizations in different industries and therefore between non-competitors is called

cross-industry benchmarking

Non-competitive benchmarking

Competitive benchmarking

None of the above

Benchmarking cross-industry can lead to being:

Best in the organization

Best in the industry

Better than competitors

Best in the world

Potential sources for identifying participants for benchmarking studies include:

Customers

Suppliers

Professional organizations, journals, websites

All of the above

The ways, in which data may be used and shared by participants in the study, include:

data may be shared openly

Summary data are shared

Data may be shared anonymously

All of the above

A Confidentiality Agreement is an agreement between participants of a benchmarking study that sets out how the data and information shared during the study may be used and disseminated by participants.

True

False

Which one is false:

national or international law may prohibit the sharing of certain data

Two key pieces of legislation that apply to benchmarking are the Maastricht Treaty for European countries and Anti-trust laws in the USA

The basic aim of an anti-trust legislation is to prohibit price-fixing

A typical reason for using an external consultant is:

Specific skills are required and they are not available to a participant

Data needs to be shared anonymously

An organization is new to benchmarking

All of the above

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