Kaiser's Benchmarking Leadership

Kaiser Associates is a pioneer and world leader in Benchmarking. We established our Benchmarking practice in 1983 and we were the first professional services firm to apply Benchmarking to industry on a large scale. Our first book on the subject, Beating the Competition: A Practical Guide to Benchmarking, was published in 1985.

Our 20+ years of experience and continuous improvement make us uniquely qualified to help clients use Benchmarking to deliver improved business results:

• Depth and breadth of experience: Kaiser's experience base is considered by many to be the most extensive in the field. More than 3,000 unique Benchmarking engagements, covering every major industry, function, and process. Deep, experiential knowledge of critical success factors, pitfalls to avoid, and how to maximize the impact of Benchmarking
• Leading practice knowledge base: Extensive and up to date knowledge of leading companies and outstanding practices, across a wide range of functions, industries, and processes
• Customized approach: Each engagement is tailored to the client's unique situation. Kaiser allows our clients to select the benchmark companies and Kaiser provides full disclosure on the identity of the benchmark companies
• Hard-to-obtain data through unique / proven research methodology: Highly effective and proven research methodology that delivers facts and insights that our clients are unable to obtain on their own
• "Apples-to-apples" performance comparisons: Driven by client's own definitions
• Actionable insights: Detailed "how" and "why" insights required to address identified performance gaps
• Proprietary results: All findings / results are the property of the client (not available to others)