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.

The Benchmarking Network currently has several completed Newspaper Benchmarking Studies available for purchase. The topics include:

• Cost Reduction Opportunities
  
  
• Advertising, Billing & Collections
  
  
• Accounts Payable
  
  
• Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting
  
  
• Capital Asset Management
  
  
• Cost Reduction in Clustering Services
  
  
• Customer Service
  
  
• Electronic Commerce
  
  
• Financial Reporting
  
  
• Information Systems Effectiveness
  
  
• Media Billing
  

The Benchmarking Network at a Glance

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: