Definition: Strategic benchmarking
Common Assessment Framework (CAF)
Strategic benchmarking is used where organisations seek to improve their overall performance by examining the long-term strategies and general approaches that have enabled high performers to succeed. It involves comparisons of high-level aspects, such as core competencies; the development of new products and services; a change in the balance of activities or an improvement in capabilities for dealing with changes in the background environment.
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European Network of National CAF Correspondents, European CAF Resource Centre at the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA), "The Common Assessment Framework (CAF). Improving Public Organisations through Self-Assessment. CAF2013", Maastricht, September 2012
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