This question made me recoil, and I felt my body tense up. I heard it twice in a short period of time at two different organizations. In both cases, the question led toward the same outcome: ...

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Benchmarking is a way to evaluate whether you are achieving the best possible performance in your fleet operation. You can set internal benchmarks that measure your performance against pre-set goals, ...

Using benchmarking to develop performance measures is a critical part of creating an IT scorecard. But it is a challenging effort that will require you to commit time and effort both in the initial ...

Economic volatility along with an increasingly complex and uncertain operating environment, making the role of information even more critical. In a recent survey of transportation executives, 97% ...

It is difficult to evaluate an employee's performance if you don't know what standards you should use. Benchmarks are standards for employee work that the company requires. The employee's ability to ...

Storage-area network complexity can mask what might seem to be relatively benign issues that have the potential to build up and cause an outage or brownout. To identify trouble early, you need to ...

Whenever you read a PC review or a component review, benchmark results typically accompany it. Such results are most often in the form of numbers, such as a score or a frames-per-second total.

How powerful is your phone? The question would have been nonsensical a decade ago, but as we increasingly depend on smartphones and tablets for some of our everyday computing needs, paying more ...