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Benchmarking

By F. John Reh, About.com

Definition: Benchmarking is the process of gathering information about other companies in your industry to compare your performance against and to use to set goals.
Alternate Spellings: bench-marking
Examples: We compare our turnover rate against the ten largest companies in our industry when we are benchmarking our HR organization.
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