The Skinny: Hackett formed a strategic alliance with The International Association for Human Resource Information Management (IHRIM) with mutual benefits: IHRIM members gained access to a Web-based benchmarking tool for process performance assessment and Hackett obtained current data for its ongoing HR benchmarking study. A CD-ROM with background information and promotional materials - including this newsletter article -- helped IHRIM chapter presidents encourage program participation among its member companies.

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New Alliance Brings Members The Benefits Of Benchmarking
Web-based tool helps HR organizations enact positive change

While the HR function is becoming increasingly dependent on technology, many organizations fail to use their technology investments to the fullest. IHRIM's recently established alliance with Hackett Benchmarking & Research, the world's foremost best practices and benchmarking firm and a part of Answerthink, provides an opportunity to avoid this and other missed opportunities for achieving the best performance possible.

The IHRIM - Hackett alliance offers the benefits of best practices benchmarking - a proven technique for analyzing how an organization performs in specific processes and what it can do to improve - in a convenient, easy-to-use, Web-based tool. Users receive a quick performance diagnosis of any of 18 HR processes compared against the performance of both average and world-class companies in Hackett's database, allowing users to identify opportunities for making positive, lasting change.

In addition, benchmark participants earn access to the Hackett Highway, a best practices knowledge library designed to help users deploy leading-edge best practices and set realistic targets for performance improvements. The Highway contains process-by-process performance metrics, best practice case studies, abstracts, high-level findings from current Hackett research studies and "quick wins" that can help blaze the trail toward more efficient, effective operation.

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