How to Find and Work with Trusted Benchmarking Partners

When an organization decides that it needs to benchmark with other organizations, leaders of the benchmarking effort are usually excited to see what high-performing enterprises are doing so that they can learn about and then adopt those practices. But how does a benchmarking team identify high-performing organizations that it can emulate? And once identified, what can a benchmarking team do to ensure that its interactions with potential benchmarking partners will be fruitful?
This article presents the steps you can take to ensure that you can find benchmarking partners and the information you need from them.