Benchmarking your cost performance against the leading US companies in your Industry

Nov 17

Benchmarking your cost performance against the leading US companies in your Industry

Best Practices, Service Providers, Survey --- 2009 Jean-Philippe Massin, 1,276 views Add comments

Comparing your performance to your peers in your industry is essential to understand how good you are. Many ways to do so and hereby is another one I just identified, focused on ‘Cost Performance’, reading the article “In Pursuit of a Cutting Edge” published on CFO.com. You” be able to compare your company performance against leading US players in following markets (link brings you directly to an excel tool):

The above links lead to snapshots of nine industries, showing the three-year trend for the industry and then highlighting US leading companies within each.

For a full explanation of the methodology used, click here.

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