What is Benchmarking?

"Benchmarking is the practice of comparing a company's performance against others. It can be used to help clarify where you stand, relative to others, in those practices which matter most in your area of business. The technique can also be used to help companies become as good, or better than the best in the world in the most important aspects of their operations.

Benchmarking is the process of determining who is the very best, who sets the standard, and what that standard is. In baseball, you could argue that seven consecutive World Series Championships made the New York Yankees the benchmark. If we were to benchmark "world conquest", what objetive measure would we use to compare Julius Caesar to Adolph Hitler; Gengis Khan to Napoleon? Which of them was the epitome, and why?

" Benchmarking is about finding who is the best sales organization? The most responsive customer service department? The leanest manufacturing operation? And how do we quantify that standard?and try to copy or improve their technics wich ones will be apply on the industries in orden to get a bigger portion of the market

Selected words:
-Epitome
-Clarify
-Apply

http://www.mas.dti.gov.uk/content/resources/categories/qaa/QAA_Benchmark5.html http://management.about.com/cs/benchmarking/a/Benchmarking.htm

Friends Interview!

Name: Nathali Carrasqueño

1. Could you please define Engineering in your own words?
Engineering is the art of creation and Innovacion, applying methods, processes, technology and ingenuity for a best quality of life.

2. What influenced you to pursue Electronics engineering, industrial ingeneering, computer science engineering or informatics engineering?
Well engineering is create so i want to be a creative of processes and methods to improve a company, reduce the work times, increment the quality of the product, reduce the costs, incrementing the profit and that´s the principal objetive of industrial engineering my career.

3. Could you please describe the educational process required to become an Engineer?
The process have to be very practice the most of the universities get focus in the mathematics when the secret of create a profesional is the practice of he learned so i think that have to be 50/50 theory and practice.

4. What are the skills you need to be a good engineer?
More practice, experience, and all the others semesters that i have to course.

5. What job considerations were you looking for after you completed your education?
I will look for get in, in a good and big company that is the dream of every engineer and the charge that i want to get is the supervice personnel, and Controller maintenance. If I can´t get that i´d see the posibillity of create a business.

Name: Diego Añez

6. What's something of your school life that you enjoy the most?
Something that I enjoyed that most of my school life is the time shared with my friends on school.

7. From your perspective, what is the most difficult part of being an engineering student?
For me the most difficult part of being an engineering student is that is needed a lot of time to study.

8. What are your plans for the future?
I plan to keep on studying in the future.

9. Point out your most personally gratifying moment in Engineering school.
One of the most personally gratifying moment for me in engineering school was when I finish all the physics and when I pased geometry.

10. Why would you recommend Engineering as a career?
I would recommend engineering as a career because its a very interesting career. It has very good job possibilitys.