1. Benchmarking Performance If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.
March 22, 2012

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“Figuring out the right things to do isn’t nearly as difficult as continuing to do them over the long term.”
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3. Benchmarking Performance If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.
March 22, 2012

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“Remember:
The problem for most of us isn’t knowing what to do… it’s doing it.”
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5. Benchmarking Performance If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.
March 22, 2012

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“The greatest attribute for any business leader is perseverance.”
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7. Benchmarking Performance If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.
March 22, 2012

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“All organizations are perfectly designed to get the results they are now getting. If we want different results, we must change the way we do things.”
Tom Northup
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9. Benchmarking Performance If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.
March 22, 2012

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“It’s useful to think of excellence in two broad categories:
Customer excellence and business excellence.”
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11. Benchmarking Performance If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.
March 22, 2012

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“Satisfied customers drive business success – and business success enables investment to satisfy customers.”
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13. Benchmarking Performance If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.
March 22, 2012

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“Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.”
Brian Tracy
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15. Benchmarking Performance If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.
March 22, 2012

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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
Aristotle
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17. Benchmarking Performance If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.
March 22, 2012

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“People go in the direction leadership is walking, not pointing.”
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19. Benchmarking Performance If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.
March 22, 2012

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“Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence. “
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21. Benchmarking Performance If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.
March 22, 2012

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“Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."
John W. Gardner
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23. Benchmarking Performance If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.
March 22, 2012

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“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.”
Jim Rohn
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25. Benchmarking Performance If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.
March 22, 2012

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"Measure is the ability to mesh strategy with reality, align people with goals, and achieve the promised results.“
Larry Bossidy
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27. Benchmarking Performance If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.
March 22, 2012

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“The strategic agenda demands discipline and continuity; its enemies are distraction and compromise.”
Michael E. Porter
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29. Benchmarking Performance If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.
March 22, 2012

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“One of the major barriers to achieving lasting excellence is how little formal effort organizations put into learning how to execute strategy.”
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31. Benchmarking Performance If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.
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March 22, 2012

32. Your Presenter Matt Lauth Managing Partner Strategy Execution Advisors
Certified Business Coach
My name is Matt Lauth. I am the managing partner at Strategy Execution Advisors and I’ll be hosting today’s webinar.
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33. Benchmarking Performance
Join me to find out how the Six Disciplines Program supports Benchmarking Performance. During this webinar you'll learn:
1. What is a Benchmarking Performance ?
2. Where does it fit in the overall management of performance in my organization?
3. Why is it important?
4. How do I go about creating one?
5. How do I use it to manage the business?

34. "Measure is the ability to mesh strategy with reality, align people with goals, and achieve the promised results.“
Larry Bossidy

35. What does benchmarking mean?
Benchmarking is the process of comparing one's business processes and performance metrics to industry bests and/or best practices from other industries.
Dimensions typically measured are quality, time and cost. In the process of benchmarking, management identifies the best firms in their industry, or in another industry where similar processes exist, and compare the results and processes of those studied (the "targets") to one's own results and processes.
In this way, they learn how well the targets perform and, more importantly, the business processes that explain why these firms are successful.
Source: Wikipedia

36. Poll Questions
Let’s take a quick pause….I’d like to get your input on a few poll questions….
Does your organization do benchmarking?
Is it focused on internal comparison, external comparison or both?
Are corporate goals tied to benchmarking?

37. Challenges Getting good data (internally)
Getting good data (externally)
Clarity of what you are comparing
Consistency and discipline to do the comparison
Having established targets
Benchmarking strategy – what makes you different
Relating to operational effectiveness and strategy
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38. Strategy
Strategy is about making choices and trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.
The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish. The company without a strategy is willing to try anything. If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.
Source: Michael Porter
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39. Operational Effectiveness
Operational effectiveness is about things that you really shouldn't have to make choices on; it's about what's good for everybody and about what every business should be doing.
Operational effectiveness is not strategy because it can easily be replicated.
Source: Michael Porter
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40. Benchmarking Dilemma
Since strategy is what makes you different, or unique, in the marketplace, it is difficult to benchmark.
The primary benchmarking needs to come from within.
Operational effectiveness are the common activities that can more easily be benchmarked both from within the organization as well as against outside organizations.
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41. Recommendations
Identify the key strategic items you’ll benchmark yourself against.
Identify the key operational items you’ll benchmark yourself against.
Identify the best external sources for data.
Identify the best organizations to benchmark yourself against.
Engrain the benchmarking activities within the larger process of business building and strategy execution.
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42. Strategy Benchmarking
Balance scorecard that reflects the strategic agenda of the organization.
This should be created as part of strategic planning.
Benchmarking of strategy will be primarily internal since it is focused on what differentiates you to your customers.
Establish clear measures and targets
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43. Operational Benchmarking
Organized around the structure of the organization.
Mixture of unique activities (i.e. tied to strategy)
And, best-practices unique to the function (operational excellence)
Create a balanced scorecard for each department/division/team in the organization
Identify the external sources you will compare yourself to.
Establish clear targets
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44. External Sources Identify the sources of benchmark data
Public information is readily available
Compare to economy, industry and market
Take a balanced approach: financial, market, process, people.
Ensure sources can provide the data in the form you need and within the budget you can afford
Look for Baldrige winners in your industry
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45. BizMiner
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46. Why Baldrige? Systematic Approaches Grow Assets 135% faster
SOURCE: Hendricks, K.B. and Singhal, V.R. (1999).
US Research: 600 WW Excellence Programs, 5 years
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47. Comparable Organizations
Identify the organizations you want to benchmark yourself against.
Same industry? Competitors
Different industry? Role models, best in class
Review commonly available data points: financial, customer loyalty (NPS), growth, profit, operational performance
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48. Business Building Process
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49. Six Disciplines
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50. Summary Benchmarking is a best practice
Understand difference between strategy and operational effectiveness
Benchmark from the inside and the outside
Establish clear targets
Establish clear data sources
Factor benchmarking into overall business building activities
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March 22nd: Benchmarking Performance
March 29th: Quarterly Review Process
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54. You can visit our website to learn more and to register for upcoming webinars. Past webinars have been recorded and are available on the website at the URL listed.

55. Thank You! Matt Lauth mlauth@sxadvisors.com (419) 348-8046
Thank you for attending today’s webcast. Here’s my contact information, please contact me to discuss how we can help your organization. It’s fitting for any organization, regardless of size or industry.
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