It looks at an activity as a sequential process.

Within these broader categories, there are three specific types of benchmarking 1) Process benchmarking, 2) Performance benchmarking and 3) strategic benchmarking.

Mr. Cogswell is Spacely's big competitor.

Tom was Mary's competitor.

Benchmarking is the process of comparing one's business processes and performance metrics to industry bests or best practices from other companies.

I realized that my real competition was the beaver.

The closest competing aircraft from Airbus was the A340 500HGW.

The competing aircraft from Airbus is the A330 300.

Tedros, who is running a well funded campaign, is considered as a prime contender in the race.

However, no objection was raised to the name, and no competing names were suggested.

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His leading opponent was David B. Hill, a Senator for New York.

Mariusz Pudzianowski is a highly successful strongman competitor and has won more World's Strongest Man titles than any other competitor in the world, winning the event in 2008 for the fifth time.

Another competing theory is that the work was written for Enguerrand de Coucy, seventh Sire de Coucy.

Its main competitor as a synthetic gemstone is a more recently cultivated material, synthetic moissanite.

The competing aircraft from Airbus is the A340 300 and the A350 900.

CMT beat its chief competitor, The Nashville Network (TNN), to the air by two days.

So we were kind of skeptical that maybe it was a competing oil firm just sort of playing the issue up.

Formal definition and basic terminology Petri nets are state transition systems that extend a class of nets called elementary nets.

It was designed to be a direct competitor to the 787 9, and 777 200ER.

Indeed, one common motivation of reverse engineering is to determine whether a competitor's product contains patent infringements or copyright infringements.

Yahoo!, a competitor of Google, also benefited because it owned 8.4 million shares of Google before the IPO took place.

A line is either parallel to a plane, intersects it at a single point, or is contained in the plane.

It also helped inspire the actor model of concurrent computation although Simula only supports co routines and not true concurrency.

You can give the competing drug in too high a dose, so that people get side effects.

The editorial was also a response to rival O Estado , for its defense of a special jail regime for political prisoners.

These dissidents formed a competing church and the following month, at Carthage, the county seat, they procured indictments against Smith for perjury and polygamy.

You can give the competing drug in too low a dose, so that people aren't properly treated.

Opryland USA and owner Gaylord also owned CMT's major competitor The Nashville Network.

In Asia, China is exposing the fallacy of looking at state capitalism as a competing alternative to liberal capitalism.

After partying on Saturday night, BBB contestant Monique Amin, a 23 year old student, went to her bedroom.

Within months after Winfrey took over, the show went from last place in the ratings to overtaking Donahue as the highest rated talk show in Chicago.

Although predators typically avoid one another, if a prey item is under dispute or a serious competitor is encountered, displays of aggression are common.

Versions for Mac OS and Mac OS X were at one time available, but due to poor sales these were discontinued.

Netscape's competitor, Microsoft, released Internet Explorer 3.0 the following year with a port of JavaScript called JScript.

It bought a majority stake (51 ) of competitor Korg in 1987, which was bought out by Korg in 1993.

A society that is unable to offer an effective response to other societies it competes with will usually be subsumed into the culture of the competing society.

Using the properties of the symbiote, Michael Hall, a competitor of Tony Stark, creates prosthetic limbs and exo suits which respond in the same ways as a symbiote.

In 2004 the licensing terms for the competing Movable Type package were changed by Six Apart and many of its most influential users migrated to WordPress.

The film world was shocked, however, when Japan passed over the film in favor of another as its official entry to compete for an Oscar nomination in the Best Foreign Film category.

Eventually a competing theory involving the gradual accumulation of mutations was shown to occur in nature so often that geneticists largely dismissed the moving gene hypothesis.

AMD later managed to establish itself as a serious contender with the K6 set of processors, which gave way to the very successful Athlon and Opteron.

In the process of best practice benchmarking, management identifies the best firms in their industry, or in another industry where similar processes exist, and compares the results and processes of those studied (the targets ) to one's own results and processes.

More importantly, the plans were designed to be two feet taller than the Chrysler Building, which was in an ostensible competition to be the world s tallest building.