Everything you need to know about benchmarking

28/09/2022 Article
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Stuart Harle

Qorus

Senior Adviser

In today’s dynamic financial services market to stay relevant and competitive, executives must regularly ask themselves three simple questions:

1. Where are we?

2. Where do we want to be?

3. How will we get there?

Executives can commission competitor research to understand what they are offering and how they deliver it. Then try to work out the best practice and how to implement it, which is time-consuming and expensive and often delivers superficial results. 

Alternatively, they could hire management consultants to undertake a diagnosis that often tells you what you already know. 

Wouldn’t it be good to have industry expertise from peers to help you answer those three questions? 

Peer benchmarking answers question one by helping you highlight your strengths and weaknesses directly against your industry and offers insight that helps you answer question two and three.

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