Host Billy Crystal might have put it best when just halfway into Sunday's 76th annual Academy Awards, he said, It's now official â there's nobody left in New Zealand to thank. With the night's biggest awards yet to be presented, it already seemed like director Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ruled the day.
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A benchmark is a point of reference for a measurement. The term 'benchmark' presumably originates from the practice of making dimensional height measurements of an object on a workbench using a gradual scale or similar tool, and using the surface of the workbench as the origin for the measurements. 2. Benchmarking Definitions Benchmarking is the process of measuring an organization's internal processes then identifying, understanding, and adapting outstanding practices from other organizations considered to be best-in-class. However, there are several generic definitions of benchmarking that provide varying insight.