Benchmarking Your Technology Edge

摘要

Benchmarking. It's one of those words that can elicit and spark a lot of interest, but it can also make you groan. There's a natural curiosity among most of us to see how we measure up to the competition, even if the competition is just a set of norms. But when you find yourself off the mark, it's never easy to acknowledge and complete the amount of work that it may take to get you up to the standard. Technology benchmarks for libraries have a similar edge that can be heightened even more by swiftly changing standards. What's considered the norm today can quickly fade tomorrow into obsolete technology offerings for you and your customers.