Upper Quartile

Leaders in Performance Measurement

Benchmarking is a capacity that has been around for a while now – the reason it has been around and used … is that it works. What can be so difficult about examining how other organisations have achieved improved performance? The answer is NOTHING, but "examining" others is a world away from really learning HOW they achieved the improvement.

Many organisations publicise what they have achieved, but it is unusual for them to be as lucid on the mundane facts of how this transformation was made to work.

  • The Winning Measures Benchmarking Tool is a strategic planning tool that helps analyse and diagnose a business’s performance, with a view to overall improvement
  • Measure your performance in four key operational areas
  • Compare it with a database of 100,000 UK and international companies
  • Identify and analyse opportunities for improvement
  • Develop an Action Plan to take you on the journey towards best practice 

Our database of over 100,000 company records (all records are under 3 years old), acquired by facilitators and trained advisers, also draws on what are conventionally called ‘soft areas’ and hard financial data. Analysis of soft results allows you to identify relationships between varying factors, such as high absenteeism and low levels of training, for example. Measures are wholly objective, and point clearly to areas for improvement. 

Graphic reports gives a comparative analysis of how your organisation performs, and this tool’s extensive comparison criteria, allow for an unparalleled and enlightening view of a business performance. 

With the Winning Measures Benchmarking Tool, you will: 

  • Substantially reduce entry costs and development time
  • Benefit from impact assessment and programme reporting through easily accessible data
  • Achieve large-scale improvement when used as part of development programmes
  • Know that your data is held confidentially and tracked annually, all on a single system

Continued pressure on companies to perform better for less means that every business and agency needs to keep a regular eye on the improvements that can be made to the way they manage their core service offering, our tools and techniques allow access to over 100,000 businesses and performance metrics through Winning Measures and for the Public Sector Longitudinal Monitoring to give you the visibility and control over key business performance metrics.

To find out how our unique approach could help your business move forward, choose from the following: