One way to judge the performance of a company is to compare it with other companies. This technique, commonly called "benchmarking," permits the manager of a company to discover better industrial practices and can provide a justification for the adoption of good practices.
Any of the following, if true, is a valid reason for benchmarking the performance of a company against companies with which it is not in competition rather than against competitors EXCEPT:
Comparisons with competitors are most likely to focus on practices that the manager making the comparisons already employs.
Getting "inside" information about the unique practices of competitors is particularly difficult.
Since companies that compete with each other are likely to have comparable levels of efficiency, only benchmarking against noncompetitors is likely to reveal practices that would aid in beating competitors.
Managers are generally more receptive to new ideas that they find outside their own industry.
Much of the success of good companies is due to their adoption of practices that take advantage of the special circumstances of their products or markets.
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这里本来就是重点就是谈论competition 的 ,E选项描述公司成功主要取决于对于自家产品和所属市场的应对 ...
问:以下除了哪个外,都是依靠与非竞争对手作比较,不是依靠与竞争对手作比较来确定一家公司表现基准点的有效支持?
A 与竞争对手作比较更关注管理者已经采取了的措施(因为与竞争对手比较的都是已经采取了的措施,所以要与非竞争对手作比较,才能发现更好的措施并为好的措施提供正当理由)
B 很难拿到竞争对手独特措施的内幕信息(暗指从非竞争对手拿信息会容易些)
C 因为彼此竞争的公司效能水平都差不多,所以只有依靠与非竞争对手作比较确定的基准点更能揭示未来能帮助战胜竞争对手的措施(与非竞争对手)
D 管理者一般更易于接受行业外的新观点(行业外即指明是非竞争对手)
E 大多数好公司的成功是因为他们采用了利于他们产品或市场特殊环境的措施(此处确定公司的好坏的基准点是特殊环境所采取的措施,并不涉及非竞争公司)
E中说成功是由于take advantage of special circumstances,如果是这样的话,应该是找竞争者比较会更合理,因为只有自己的竞争者会面临和自己相同的“special circumstance”
问题问的是以下哪一个不是和非竞争者公司benchmark的有效理由?
Secondly, as the OG says that "Competing companies do share special circumstances involving products and markets.",hence, now that the success is due to the grasp of these circumstances, it is plausible to make benchmarking with competitors.
前面都是讲Bechmark(基准比对),第一段讲定义;第二段讲后面的选项如果是真的话,就说明了与非竞争对手进行基准比对的合理性;“”除非“”表明,该题目需要我们选出,哪一个选项不是讲benchmark
E中说成功是由于take advantage of special circumstances,如果是这样的话,应该是找竞争者比较会更合理,因为只有自己的竞争者会面临和自己相同的“special circumstance”
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