Benchmarking Involves

question 66

Multiple Choice

Benchmarking involves:

• A) comparing how different companies perform various value chain activities and then making cross-company comparisons of the costs and effectiveness of these activities.
• B) checking whether a company has achieved more of its financial and strategic objectives over the past five years relative to the other firms it is in direct competition with.
• C) studying whether a company's resource strengths are more/less powerful than the resource strengths of rival companies.
• D) studying how a company's competitive capabilities stack up against the competitive capabilities of selected companies known to have world-class competitive capabilities.
• E) comparing the best practices in one industry against the best practices in another industry.

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Definitions:

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Serotonin

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