This document discusses benchmarking, including defining it as comparing business processes and performance metrics to industries' best practices. It outlines the benchmarking process as planning, finding comparable organizations, collecting data, analyzing the data, and improving based on findings. The document also describes different types of benchmarking, such as process, financial, performance, product, strategic, and functional benchmarking. Finally, it explains that benchmarking is used in both the private sector to gain competitive advantages, and the public sector to improve services.