And the benefits of development were clear: according to benchmarking data from Shelton Development Services, developing associations benefited from higher levels of grant than in previous years.
The highest performing HR functions spend 26% less than their peers on HR and manage 32% fewer staff, according to benchmarking data from the Hackett Group.
Mobile's portion of online shopping continues to grow – this Black Friday, for example, smartphones drove a quarter of all online traffic, and 7.2% of all online sales, according to IBM Benchmark data.
Ranked among the top 30 electrical and computer engineering programs by U.S.News & World Report, Duke ECE is currently among the top 10 departments in the nation for faculty scholarly productivity in electrical engineering and tied for #1 in the nation for computer engineering, according to Academic Analytics benchmarking data.
According to its own benchmark data of 16,000 customers, Zendesk customers are four times more likely to use self-service systems than calling a customer-service desk.
By 6 PM EST on Black Friday here in the U.S., mobile traffic had accounted for 46.7% of all online traffic – an increase of 24.2% year-over-year, but a drop from the 52.11% it claimed on the Thanksgiving holiday, according to IBM's Benchmark data.
Even so, 35% of IT entrepreneurs in the Middle East are women, compared with 10% on a global scale, according to the data analytics benchmark website Startup Compass, a sign that women in the region are making inroads in traditionally male-dominated fields here.
The truth, at least according to the data provided by benchmarking company Futuremark, is that despite what you might feel on a day-to-day basis, your iPhone's processor and graphics chip are as fast as the day you bought it.
Sales at privately held retailers selling sporting goods, hobby supplies and musical instruments (NAICS 4511) in the 12 months ended Aug. 1 were 10.5% higher than the same period a year earlier, and profit margins have been flat, at around 3percentt, according to Sageworks' industry benchmarking data.
As this trust collectively emanates through leaders, teams and organizations, the results can be seismic, with our own internal research showing an exponential benefit to the company's employee satisfaction scores that are more than double the industry benchmark for healthy companies, according to data drawn from Bain's Org Navigator benchmark research from 2017.
Deaths exceeded births among non-Hispanic white Americans for the first time in at least a century, according to new census data, a benchmark that heralds profound demographic change.
