I suspect that most business executives would tell you that they know if their business is performing optimally. They can point to P&L statements, customer satisfaction surveys, etc., to show that the ...

Benchmarking has long been a source of strain for the relationship between customers and service providers. The potential for disagreements over price comparisons and contractual obligations is huge, ...

When it comes to reducing data bureau pricing, what matters most isn’t what you paid last year, but how you can get the best price for the highest quality data and scores. We have worked with hundreds ...

Is it envy, the drive for continuous improvement, or simply the need to frame data in context that has prompted the surge in corporate benchmarking? Perhaps it's a bit of all three, as benchmarking ...

For the past few weeks, I’ve been locked in various dark rooms (OK, it’s not as bad as that) performing benchmark tests on a number of wireless LAN systems. Some of the products tested were ...

MONTREUX, Switzerland — Faced by an increasing burden of cost for leading-edge R&D, something has got to change at the 32-nm and 22-nm nodes, according to Antun Domic, senior vice president and ...