ITPEC FE Morning October 2021 Question 55

Evaluating service quality and performance against best practices inside and outside the industry — that comparison is what benchmarking means.

Benchmarking measures one's own processes and results against a reference, the best performers in the same industry or in others, to find the gap and learn the practices that close it. In service management it feeds continual improvement, for example by comparing incident resolution times or availability with leading providers.

Answer (d)

Why not others:

• •(a) — measuring availability, reliability and performance and reporting them to customers is service level reporting under service level management.
• •(b) — strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats are the four elements of SWOT analysis.
• •(c) — finance, customers, internal processes, and learning and growth are the four perspectives of the balanced scorecard.

Key rule: Recognize a management technique by its signature: comparison with best practice is benchmarking, four perspectives is the balanced scorecard, strengths to threats is SWOT, and measuring against agreed targets is SLA reporting.

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