Startups & Business Models
How can Competitive Benchmarking be Helpful for Your Startup?

Competitive Benchmarking is an ongoing procedure for comparing & benchmarking your own business and performance with the most successful organization or competitor in the same field/domain on certain parameters. It is a direct competitor-to-competitor comparison of a product, service, process, or method. If we discuss with respect to procedures, we need to look at the rates of response, attention to depth and helpfulness.
This type of benchmarking provides a possibility to know about your business, performance, product, service, and your competition better; incorporate forces against another common competitor. A good example of competitive benchmarking, within just the automobile brands, two or more American car companies might benchmark for mutual benefit against a common international competitor.
- Advantages of Competitive Benchmarking -Contrasting like processes -Know your competitors better -Possible collaboration -Helpful for planning and setting goals -Similar corporate issues
- Legal Issues with Competitive Benchmarking -Relatively low-performance improvement -Threatening -Restricted to trade secrets -May provide misleading information -May not get best-in-class comparisons -Opponents could capitalize on your weaknesses


