What's the best way to present benchmarking data?

[floyd2511]

Hi all,

The company I work for, have over the last couple of years, had serious problems with product contamination. I have been asked to compare our manufacturing practices to a "Containation Control Benchmarking Guide" supplied by our biggest customer (caterpillar), to then identify in which areas we need to improve/change.

I have now finished comparing , and am left with a huge exel file of raw information. Obviously presenting this data to Top management in its current state would make little sense, since it would be a complete information overload.

Can anyone help on how to best present this data???

Thanks
Floyd

[Miner]

This is a difficult question to answer without knowing what the data looks like. Can you attach it?

[Stijloor]

Originally Posted by floyd2511

Hi all,

The company I work for, have over the last couple of years, had serious problems with product contamination. I have been asked to compare our manufacturing practices to a "Containation Control Benchmarking Guide" supplied by our biggest customer (caterpillar), to then identify in which areas we need to improve/change.

I have now finished comparing , and am left with a huge exel file of raw information. Obviously presenting this data to Top management in its current state would make little sense, since it would be a complete information overload.

Can anyone help on how to best present this data???

Thanks
Floyd

Floyd,

Have you been able to resolve the issue? If not, can you provide the raw data as Miner suggested?

Stijloor.

[allenlee]

Depends on what information you want to deliver. e.g you can present the summary of how many gaps observed per process (category) and progress of the gaps closure

[Jennifer Kirley]

I would arrange a matrix of known problems you have one axis, and on the other axis list summaries of how different researched companies have dealt with the problem. Try to keep it short - say, a single page, by listing the best ideas based on your judgment of how they could be implemented at your organization, ROI and so on. Use a special column or two to comment on pros and cons, itemize constraints and/or list the types of investments needed to adopt the highlighted good practice.

If possible, when done with all of this, devise a ranking system and arrange the benchmarks for presentability.

I hope this makes sense!

[dQApprentice]

Are you a food industry?

[dQApprentice]

i agree with jennifer.

i’d like to add that you present data that answers the ff questions:

Where are we now?
What do we want?
What do we actually need?
What can we afford?
What will we get?
What did we get?


include the methods and techniques, effort and cost, etc.

keep it short and simple as possible