Benchmarking Metrics

Benchmarking Metrics

As part of any given benchmarking life cycle, we collect and obtain a myriad of market data. We churn and distill it to provide an additional layer of value for our clients. In this case, a growing trend is to look at higher-level IT information…

The Value of IT Services Benchmarking

The Value of IT Services Benchmarking

Most IT folk have heard of, or even have conducted a benchmark in their professional lifetime. It is even endorsed by and should complement pretty much all ITSM leading frameworks such as ITIL and COBIT…

The Impulse to Compare

The Impulse to Compare

As the market becomes more competitive, organisations are continually looking to optimise their value proposition against industry peers. Their position is generally underlined by their operational costs and how they compare to others in the same industry. Many...
What You Can’t See Can Hurt Your Business

What You Can’t See Can Hurt Your Business

We say that a benchmark should deliver real benefits not just a confusing endless stream of columns and numbers and one of the key benefits of benchmarking is its ability to cure “paradigm blindness” blindness in an organisation. Paradigm blindness is when an...
Benchmark for Good Health

Benchmark for Good Health

How healthy is your IT operation? Do you really know? How do you measure its health?
An organisation that benchmarks its IT operation can: Understand its position in the market compared to…