Benchmarking and Best of Practise -- Tools for Productivity Enhancement within the Industry

Businesses in graphic arts industry are becoming more complex and competitive. To strive for better performances in each process within the business is essential. There are two interesting methods for this; benchmarking and best of practise. Benchmarking is used for internal work to structure the continuous measurement and improvement of key processes. Best of Practise is a method to compare similar companies with each other to be able to learn from each other on what parts of the process is regarded as above or under industry average.