When companies use benchmarking, their goal is to identify how their performance compares to other companies and hopefully identify how they can improve costs and performance. Nearly every sizeable ...

Never, never use a single metric to draw conclusions. It takes three or four to produce a sound conclusion. Look at cost, but also look at equipment reliability, staffing, basic practices in use, and ...

Using one simple benchmark won’t provide an investor with useful information. You need to use a composite benchmark which are fairly simple to generate. If you use commonly available benchmarks, you ...

Richard Rosen is a financial planner and an expert in writing about financial planning topics. He has 20+ years of experience as a CFP®. Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, ...

Due to a growth in demand for sustainability reporting data in recent years, many organizations have begun quantifying and reporting on their greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). Whether companies aim to ...

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Researchers behind a new study say that the methods used to evaluate AI systems’ capabilities routinely oversell AI ...