Paper
Practical application of metric benchmarking in water supply systems
Publish year
2002
Magazine
Water Science & Technology: Water Supply
Number
Volumen 2 Número 4
Pages in which appears this paper
173 - 180
Abstract
Metric benchmarking has been widely quoted as a powerful management tool. However, as useful as metric benchmarking can prove, its actual application may present several inconveniences. These include internal resistance to the project, difficulties in finding a suitable partner, finding an appropriate set of indicators, actual data management and results analysis. This paper will present general guidelines to carry out a metric benchmarking project within the water industry, as well as some tools that may be used to overcome some of these difficulties.