"Total quality management." . . "Total quality management" . "BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Quality Control." . . "TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Quality Control." . . . . . "Benchmarking in Services Volume 13, Issue 3"@en . "Benchmarking is defined as \"an improvement process in which a company measures its performance against that of best-in-class companies, determines how those companies achieved their performance levels, and uses the information to improve its own performance.\" (Bemowski, 1992, p. 20). Under the best of circumstances, benchmarking can be difficult, time-consuming, and costly. Service benchmarking is made more difficult than benchmarking in manufacturing because it appears that those things which are important to the customer may differ significantly from one service industry to another (Sower."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . "Benchmarking in services" . . "Benchmarking in services"@en . "Livres électroniques" . . . "Benchmarking (Management)" . .