The phrase "a benchmarking exercise" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a process of comparing performance metrics or practices against a standard or best practice to identify areas for improvement.
Example: "The company conducted a benchmarking exercise to evaluate its customer service against industry leaders."
Alternatives: "a performance comparison" or "a standards assessment".
The solutions generated by our prototype have been tested against conventional solutions in a benchmarking exercise.
As part of the plan Osborne intends to launch a benchmarking exercise in the autumn to establish where the UK lies in the world league.
Ofcom used independent broadband specialist Sam Knows in a benchmarking exercise last year which examined services offering speeds of "up to" eight megabits a second.
It is envisaged that the first projects to use the techniques will go live in March 2012 and that this will be followed up by a benchmarking exercise.
He initiated a "benchmarking exercise" to drive down costs throughout the 130-odd prisons in England and Wales and announced that his blueprint was to be the G4S-run Oakwood supersized jail.
In the first part of this paper the models of the ESFR design developed by several organisations in the framework of the CP-ESFR project were presented and their reliability validated via a benchmarking exercise.
A benchmark exercise was conducted to compare various friction test set-ups with respect to the measured coefficients of friction.
This research program included first an experimental campaign on reduced scaled specimen and shaking table tests, and second, a Benchmark exercise based on the contest of numerical methods and methodologies referring to the experimental results from the tests.
In the frame of the European Integrated Project RAPHAEL (ReActor for Process heat, Hydrogen And ELectricity generation) a benchmark exercise on the experimental transients conducted in the HE-FUS3 helium facility (Brasimone, Italy) was organized to assess the codes capability in simulating the thermal hydraulic and dynamic behavior of Very High Temperature Reactors (VHTR).
We have performed a benchmark exercise evaluating larger academic programs in human environmental health sciences.
The objective is to demonstrate an approach for developing an adequate source term by simplifying an existing, real-world, 90Sr plume at DOE's Hanford installation in Richland, WA, for use in a multimedia benchmarking exercise between MEPAS, MMSOILS, PRESTO, and RESRAD.
