The
Benchmarking Network and International Newspaper Financial Executives
The Benchmarking
Network has conducted process benchmarking studies since 1996 for International
Newspaper Financial Executives. Our mission is to provide best practice
management consulting services to companies in the newspaper industry.
These services address the challenge that boards of directors and senior
executives face in their daily operations, including matters of mission,
governance, strategy development and implementation, organization structure,
business process transformation and re-engineering, operational improvement,
benchmarking, competitive analysis, post-merger integration, market entry
and other benchmarking activities.
In addition, we also provide
employee benchmarking training retirement, financial planning, personal
investing, employer economics, and employee financial information management
through our wholly owned subsidiary,
The Benchmarking Network currently has several completed
Newspaper Benchmarking Studies available for purchase. The topics include:
Additional studies focusing on other topics will be announced in the future.
To get more information about one or more of these studies, please click
the appropriate boxes on this form:
information form.
To contact us call 281-440-5044 or e-mail at info@newspaperbenchmarking.com
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Annex
Publishing & Printing Inc.
Arcom Publishing, Inc.
Atlanta Journal/Constitution
Austin American-Statesman
Baltimore Sun
Beacon Journal
Binghamton Press Company
Casa Grande Valley Newspapers, Inc.
Central Newspapers, Inc.
Chicago Tribune
Cincinnati Enquirer
Columbus Dispatch
Copley Newspapers
Courier-Journal
Cox Arizona Publ., Inc.
Daily News
Dallas Morning News
David Syme & Co. Ltd.
Denver Post
Des Moines Register
Deseret News Publishing Co.
Durango Herald
El Dia, Inc.
Florida Today
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Gannett Co., Inc.
Gannett Suburban Newspapers
Globe Newspaper Co., Inc
Guard Publishing Co.
Hartford Courant
Hearst Corporation
Home News Enterprises
HomeTown Newspapers, Inc.
Houston Chronicle
Independent Newspapers Inc.
Janesville Gazette
Journal Sentinel, Inc.
Kalamazoo Gazette
Knight Ridder
La Opinion
La Presse, LTEE
Lancaster Newspapers
Lewiston Sun-Journal
London Free Press Printing Co., Ltd.
Los Angeles Times
Media General, Inc.
Memphis Publishing Co.
Middlesex Community Newspaper Co.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinal
Morning Call
New York Times
Newspaper Agency Corporation
Oklahoma Publishing Company |
Omaha
World-Herald
Ottaway Newspapers, Inc.
Paddock Publications, Inc.
Papillion Times Printing
PG Publishing Company
Philadelphia Newspapers
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Press-Enterprise, Inc.
Princeton Packet
Quad City Times
Rockford Register Star
San Antonio Express News
San Francisco Examiner
San Francisco Newspaper Agency
Seacoast Newspapers
Seattle Times Co.
Shaw Industries, Inc.
Shaw Newspapers
St. Petersburg Times
Star Tribune
Stroudsburg Pocono Record
Sun Chronicle
Sun Media Corporation
Swift Newspapers
Tampa Tribune
Tennessean
The Baltimore Sun
The Boston Globe
The Buffalo News
The Charlotte Observer
The Cincinnati Enquirer
The Daily Oklahoman
The Dispatch Printing Company
The Dominion Post
The Gazette Company
The Globe & Mail Newspapers
The Grand Rapids Press
The Hartford Courant Company
The Herald Times
The Nation Publishing Co. Limited
The Orange County Register
The Record-Journal Publishing
The Repository
The Spokesman Review
The Tennessean
Thomson Newspapers
Times Publishing Company
Toledo Blade Co.
Toronto Star
Tribune Company
Union - Tribune Publishing Co.
Valley News
Washington Post
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The
Benchmarking Network at a Glance
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| The Benchmarking
Network is located at 4606 FM 1960 West, Houston, TX 77069. To contact
us phone 281-440-5044, or click here for email. |
The
Benchmarking Network consists of a group of skilled and mature general
management consultants to companies in a variety of industries. We provide
our clients with the proven ability to bring practical and actionable
best practice solutions to difficult management concerns faced by senior
managers. Our management consulting services address the challenges that
senior executives and board members must face in their regulated and non-regulated
operations. This includes matters of mission, governance, strategy development
and implementation, organization structure, business process transformation
and re-engineering, operational improvement, benchmarking, competitive
analysis, post-merger integration, market analysis and strategy, and other
benchmarking issues.
In concert
with carefully chosen affiliates and joint venture partners, we are able
to provide a wide range of additional specialized services to our clients,
including onsite benchmarking training for the employees.
We combine
a base of exceptionally experienced partners with an extensive and expert
network of professional consultants and affiliated firms. Therefore, our
clients receive the full capability of a large, diversified benchmarking
consulting firm with the flexibility and cost-efficiency of a smaller
one.
TBN
serves a large number of clients, providing them with a unique blend of
relevant experience, objective advice, creative ideas, and new management
tools. Our client's interests are placed above all else as we partner
with them and move successfully into an environment of increased competition
and change.
Our
Mission, Vision, and Values
The
Benchmarking Network's services fill a growing need for new approaches
in providing management counsel to board of directors and executive management
industries experiencing rapid change. Benchmarking helps to identify the
forces which shape unprecedented competitive, technological, social, regulatory,
and political pressures. To help our clients achieve business and market
success, TBN is committed to being the leader in Benchmarking Consultant
services. We combine the analytical and other benchmarking capabilities
of much larger consulting firms with the flexibility and efficiency only
available in smaller ones. We maintain total dedication to, quite simply,
being the best in what we do.
To accomplish
this mission and vision, we will:
- Focus our efforts
on actionable, implementable, and results-driven assistance to help
our clients succeed in their increasingly competitive and changing
business environment. If our clients succeed, then we succeed -- and
we ensure long-term client relationships by providing professional,
timely, and cost-effective service.
- Strive to earn
the reputation as the highest value-added benchmarking consultant,
and one which is a true value partnership with our clients. We will
strive to continue our excellent track record in bringing about needed
benchmarking resources while maintaining the political sensitivity
and savvy to gain acceptance within the client organization.
- Deliver close,
personalized service to our clients by bringing them a unique combination
of strategic and executive management perspectives, together with
meticulous attention to detail.
- Differentiate
ourselves through the customized blend of experienced and seasoned
professional consultants we apply to each client engagement, and by
the efficiency and integrity with which we complete the work. We will
ensure that each and every benchmarking engagement receives the needed
combination of proven partner expertise, an array of seasoned functional
experts from a variety of industry and national backgrounds, as well
as talented and energetic staff support resources.
- Bring the requisite
judgment, maturity, and experience needed to increase shareholder
value, and to understand and relate to the risks and pressures placed
on our client management and their boards of directors.
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Additional Benchmarking Resources:
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Industry Focused
Airline
Airport
Aerospace
Six Sigma
Automotive
Banking
Biotech
Broadcasting
Cable And Satellite Television
Outage Communications
Career Pathing
Computer Hardware Manufacturing
Construction
Heating, Ventilation, & Air Conditioning
Defense
Six Sigma
Electric Utility
Municipal
& Rural Cooperative
Nuclear Utility
Outage Communications
Generation
Distribution
Transmission
Substation Maintenance
Accounting & Finance
Contact Center
Customer Satisfaction
Human Resources
Information Systems
Procurement & Supply Chain
Shared Services
Six Sigma
Utility Managers
Energy
Systems & Technology
Federal Credit Unions
Financial Services
Forest Products
Gas
Contact Center
Government
Federal, State, Municipal Finance Managers
Corporate and Intergovernmental Security Alliance
Government Performance
Health Care
Health Care Administrators
Health Insurance
Higher Education
Hospitality
HVAC
Insurance
Internet
ISP
Life Insurance
Contact Center
Lottery Commission
Manufacturing
Mass Transit
Media
Mining
Mortgage
Natural Gas
Contact Center
Newspapers
Not For Profit
Oil and Gas
Contact Center
Petrochemical
Pharmaceutical
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Validation
Retail
Retention
Satellite Television
Outage Communications
Securities
Skills Replacement
Software
Sport
Succession Planning
Telecommunications
Outage Communications
Toll Road Authority
Transportation
Urban Mass Transit
Utility
Water Utility
Contact Center
Outage Communications
Wireless
Yellow Pages
Other Sites of Interest
Benchmarking Books
Benchmarking Careers
Benchmarking Coordinators
Benchmarking Database
Benchmarking Newsletter
Benchmarking Reports
Benchmarking Roundtables
Benchmarking Training
Corporate and Intergovernmental Security Alliance
Fast Track Benchmarking
Knowledge Workers Productivity Forum
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Australia
Belgium
Canada
Finland
Germany
India
Ireland
Japan
Mexico
New Zealand
Spain
United Kingdom
United States
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Process Focused
911 Call Center
Abandoned Property Management
Activity Based Costing
Accounting and Finance
Accounts Payable
Agile Manufacturing
Aging Workforce Management
Application Development
Application Maintenance
Asset Management
Asset Tracking
B2B
B2C
Billing Process Management
Brand Value Management
Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting
Capital Asset Management
Hardware Asset Management
Software Asset Management
Capital Expenditures
Capital Project Management
Clinical Trials Standards
Career Pathing
Collections
Complaint Handling
Consumer Products
Contact Center
Contact Center Customer Satisfaction
Contact Center Offshore Outsourcing
Contract Management
Corporate and Intergovernmental Security
Corporate Communications
Corporate Cost Reduction
Corporate Governance
Corporate Planning
Corporate Printing
Corporate Travel
Credit & Collections
Culture Integration
Currency Strategy
Customer Database
Customer Intimacy
Customer Listening
Customer Profitability
Customer Relations Strategies
Customer Relationship Management
Customer Satisfaction
Customer Service
Data Mining
Desktop Support
Disease Management
Dispute Resolution
Distribution & Logistics
Disaster Preparedness & Recovery
eCommerce
E-mail Management
Employee Development & Training
Employee Profiling
Employee Retention
Employee Talent Development
Enterprise Continuity
Environmental Health & Safety
Equal Employment Opportunity
Executive Accountability
Executive Development
Extranet
Facilities
Facilities & Real Estate
Federal, State, Municipal Finance Managers
First Contact Resolution
Fleet Management
Global Organization Structure
Help Desk
Human Resources
Information Systems
Information Technology Architecture
Information Technology Asset Management
Hardware Asset Management
Software Asset Management
Information Technology Customer Satisfaction
Information Technology Facilities Management
Information Technology Financial Managers
Information Technology Human Resources
Information Technology Measurement
Information Technology Offshore Outsourcing
Information Technology Outsourcing
Information Technology Procurement
Information Technology Project Management
Information Technology Security
Information Technology Strategy Development
Integrated Voice Response
Intellectual Property
Internal Auditing
Internal I/T Customer Satisfaction
Intranet
Inventory Management
ISO9000, QS9000, ISO14000
IVR
Knowledge Management
Knowledge Workers
Lean Benchmarking
Lean Manufacturing
Management Development
Manufacturing Technology
Marketing
Mergers
Network Security
New Service Development
Occupational Health & Safety
Offshore Outsourcing
Order Management
Outage Communications
Outsourcing
Outsourcing - Information Technology
Pandemic Flu
Payroll Management
Pricing Management
Policymaking
Process Harmonization
Procurement and Supply Chain
Product Development
Project Management
Product Verification & Validation
Real Estate
Relationship Management
Regulatory Affairs
Remittance Processing
Reverse Engineering Costs
Risk Management
Sales Force
Security
Server Support Management
Service Level
Service Recovery
Shared Services
Shared Services Satisfaction Processes
Six Sigma
Skills Replacement
Small Business Executives
Software Certification
Statement Processing
Strategic Resizing and Restructuring
Supplier Cost
Succession Planning
Talent Acquisition Management
Talent Development/Management
Tax Policies and Administration
Technical Accounting
Technology Assessment
Technology Manufacturing
Telemarketing
Total Cost of Ownership
Transfer Pricing
Travel
Treasury Management
Utility Managers
Voice of Customer
Workforce Management
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