The Risk From Innovation Benchmarking — Most Downloaded Topic of 2022

Phil McKinney
The Helm
Published in
11 min readDec 29, 2022

Benchmarking is comparing your organization to others to measure your performance and possibly identify areas for improvement. It has been common practice since the early 1900s. Frederick Taylor, an American mechanical engineer, is credited with coining the term “benchmarking” in his book, The Principles of Scientific Management. Benchmarking enables continuous learning…

Phil McKinney
The Helm

// Author of Beyond The Obvious // Host of Killer Innovations podcast // Pres & CEO of CableLabs // Retired HP CTO // All opinions are mine //