Consortium Surveys: THE SURVEY CONSORTIUM REQUIREMENTS FOR MEMBERSHIP TESC CORE QUESTIONS TESC NORMS BENEFITS OF THE SURVEY CONSORTIUM SHARING OF INFORMATION INFORMATION ON SURVEY RESULTS: NORMS SHARING OF RESOURCES CONSORTIUM INFLUENCE ON SURVEY PRACTICES RESPONSIBILITIES OF CONSORTIUM MEMBERS TECHNICAL SURVEY STANDARDS ITEM STANDARDS SAMPLING STANDARDS REPORTING STANDARDS ALTERNATIVES TO CONSORTIUMS SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS NOTES REFERENCES

During the latter half of the 1980s and continuing into the 1990s, two major trends in American business have been benchmarking and the industry consortium. In benchmarking, organizations seek to identify ways to improve their business processes (sec Camp, 1989). They do this through a systematic examination of the comparable business processes and practices of either highly successful organizations or organizations renowned for a particular business process (i.e., "best practices"). Generally, a benchmarked organization is similar to a benchmarking organization on certain relevant...