Conference about Benchmarking

STEINBEIS Europa Zentrum hosted a conference on Benchmarking at 6-7 June 2002. The main subject of discussion was the perspectives of inter-regional co-operation on business performance Benchmarking.

Agenda

Welcome Address

• Welcome
  Dr. Karl Epple, Permanent Deputy to the Minister of Economic Affairs of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
• Innovating Regions: Concepts, Projects and Results
  Prof. Dr. Nicos Komninos, URENIO Research Unit, Thessaloniki, Greece

Section A: Benchmarking - Theory, State-of-the-Art, Impact to the Economy of the Regions

• Benchmarking - Theory and State-of-the-Art
  Ass. Prof. Vassilios Kelessidis, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece
  Full paper
• Benchmarking - Impact to the Economy of the Regions
  Mathias Bucksteeg, Prognos AG, Berlin, Germany
  
• What the International Benchmark Club (IBC) has to Offer to Regions in Europe
  Dr. rer. pol. Christoph Koellreuter, BAK Basel, Economics Ltd., Switzerland
  Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4All

Section B: Benchmarking - Best Practices of the Regions

• Benchmarking Best Practices of Regions Concerning Setting-up and Development of a "Pole of Excellence"
  Mireille Lacave, LACAVE Allemand & Associes, Montpellier, France
  Full paper
• Benchmarking on Innovation Management. The Spanish Performance
  Carolina Grau, FUNDECYT, Badajoz, Spain
  Full paper
• Benchmarking Innovation Performance on Regional Level - Results for North Rhine-Westphalia, Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg
  Dr. Bernhard Iking, ZENIT GmbH, Muelheim, Germany
• Practices for Benchmarking in the Basque Country
  Sergio Larreina Garcia, Fundación LEIA, Miñano, Spain
  Slides Speech
• Competitiveness in the Field of Business Support Services
  Stan Banks, EPI Centre, Coventry University Enterprises Ltd., U.K.: Benchmarking Regional
  Full paper

Section C: IT Platform for Company Benchmarking

• IT Platforms for Company Benchmarking. Principles and Applications
  Dimitris Milossis, URENIO Research Unit, Thessaloniki, Greece
  Full paper
• madri+d, the Regional Innovation System
  Joaquín Alonso Andaluz, IRC Madrid, Spain

Section D: Company Benchmarking

• The IBFA/IBSA Scheme for International Company Benchmarking
  Prof. Dr. Rolf Pfeiffer, Export Akademie, Reutlingen, Germany
  Full paper
• Management Information and Benchmarking - the Franke Approach
  Dipl.-Ing. Michael Helbig, Franke Ltd., Aalen, Germany

Section E: The Future of Benchmarking - Trends and New Concepts

• The Competence Card - a Strategic Management Tool Merging and Including the Strength of the Balanced Scorecard and the EFQM Model for an Efficient Service Industry Benchmarking
  Alexander Karapidis M.A., Fraunhofer IAO, Stuttgart, Germany
  Full paper
• The Benchmarking Process Within the Innovation Relay Centre Network
  Dr. Aleardo Furlani, IRC-IRE CU-Training Expert, Innova, Rome, Italy
  Full paper
• BISER - Benchmarking the Information Society: E-Europe Indicators for European Regions
  Markus Lassnig Mag., Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft Information Society Research Department, Austria
  Full paper

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• Supply Chain Management
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• Business Intelligence
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