参与者能够使用他们所选择的标准进行标杆管理。举例来说,一个采购经理能够将测量到的公司的替换购买订单的周期时间与在这个行业或者相同地域的其他的公司的替代周期时间相比较。最好的绩效被定义绩效为与其他的参加者相比前20%的组织。基准化信 Participants are benchmarked using the standards of their choice. For example, a purchasing manager can compare the measured cycle time of a company’s replacement purchase order to the replacement cycle time of other companies in the industry or in the same geographic area. The best performance is defined as performance of the top 20% of organizations compared to the other participants. Standardization letter