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EVALUATING COMPANY PERFORMANCE THROUGH THE USE OF BENCHMARKING

2017· article· en· W2792679033 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Marcela Kozena

Bibliographic record

VenueSGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conferences on Social Sciences and Arts · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicBusiness and Economic Development
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBenchmarkingComputer scienceBusinessMarketing

Abstract

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The concept of benchmarking can be defined in many ways. In general it is a method of increasing the performance and competitiveness of a company on the basis of comparing oneself with the best in a given field. The objective of this method is to gain information that will help to identify the strengths and weaknesses of a company with its competitors and which will serve as inspiration for improvement. Information is gained by constant observation and evaluation. At present, businesses, if they want to be competitive, should use this management tool to continually improve their performance across all company processes and activities. The professional literature presents different types of benchmarking; based on the organisation or field being compared, we can distinguish between performance, functional and process benchmarking. In practice, benchmarking uses a number of models; among the most well-known are the Xerox Corp., the American Productivity and Quality Center (APQC), the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) or the Ontario Municipal Benchmarking Initiative (OMBI). Based on surveys conducted by Bain & Company on a long-term basis, benchmarking is one of the most popular and commonly used management tools, followed by strategic planning, customer relationship management, outsourcing, and vision and mission statements. The subject matter of this paper is the implementation of performance benchmarking in two Czech companies dealing with agricultural production. The aim of the benchmarking comparison is to identify the differences in the development of their financial situation, as well as to evaluate the specific indicators characteristic of agricultural production. In addition to the proportional indicators of the financial analysis, this paper includes a comparison of the subsidies drawn upon, the size of the land and selected cost items.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.378
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0050.003
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.317
GPT teacher head0.387
Teacher spread0.070 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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