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Virtual Environment for Innovation Management Technologies VERITE. Workshop on Benchmarking Hosted by STEINBEIS Presentation: Dimitris Milossis. Overview of presentation. What is Benchmarking Selective current applications in Europe Potential for co-operations Proposed workshop subjects.
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Virtual Environment for Innovation Management TechnologiesVERITE Workshop on Benchmarking Hosted by STEINBEIS Presentation: Dimitris Milossis
Overview of presentation • What is Benchmarking • Selective current applications in Europe • Potential for co-operations • Proposed workshop subjects
Why Benchmarking? Need of companies to define the strong and weak points in their performance concerning • Internal business conditions • The position of the company in the market
What is Benchmarking The estimation of the company or institution performance in relation to One or many competitors By defining a set of performance indicators
Benchmarking applications and services • One-to-one • One-to-many
Indicative one-to-one application Best practice Club (www.bpclub.com) Works between subscribed members for sector based or process based one-to-one Benchmarking
Indicative one-to-many applications • British Department of Trade and Industry “Benchmarking Index” (www.benchmarkindex.com) • URENIO Research unit Benchmarking database (www.urenio.org/benchmark/index.asp)
Overview of DTI application • 4,500 SMEs from 12 countries At the moment almost 90% are British • 150 performance indicators in process based questionnaire modules
Potential of co-operation with DTI DTI acts on a client-provider basis and one can co-operate only as an advisor of the application. DTI charges a specific amount per company case and send an automated report
Overview of URENIO application • Currently 300 SMEs from three Greek regions • 150 performance indicators
Advantages of URENIO application It works on-line for: • data input • on-line query according to selection criteria, • Automated production of Benchmarking report
Advantages of URENIO application It supports different levels of administration • Consultant-based administration • Regional or national based administration • Central administration
VERITE workshop on Benchmarking Will be hosted by STEINBEIS Europa Zentrum In a date defined by the VERITE Steering Committee.
Possible workshop subjects • Past experience of experts and partners • Current application and Benchmarking networks • Conditions for multi-national applications • Difficulties concerning local business conditions
Proposed discussion subjects Inter-regional network for one-to-one Benchmarking. Potential for use of VERITE portal and DB A multi-regional database for business performance
Inter-regional network for 1-to-1 Benchmarking Other current applications and networks in Europe. Potential for co-operations Potential for a new Benchmarking network based in this partnership
Multi-regional DB for business performance Possibilities for co-operation between VERITE member regions and other IRE network regions in a common DB Special interests of partner regions