Challenges of conducting a benchmark survey
Have you ever tried to conduct a benchmarking survey before? About performances, salaries, remuneration, culture or what so ever? What did you do? You created a questionnaire offline in Word or Excel. You sent out this questionnaire to the potential participants. You communicated to the potential participants by e-mail. You reminded them all, even if they had already submitted their questionnaire. Using Word or Excel you received the entered forms from the participants and you had to transfer it to some database or Excel. What if something was wrong in a specific questionnaire? You contacted the participant and got a new questionnaire. You got lost in the number of versions.
Online surveys added some improvements. You had a special website which gave you some insight in the status of entering data. Online you could download the results to Excel. When you finally had all the data you started analysing. Again, what to do with outliers and changes in data by participants? And what to do with participants who were too late but still submitted their questionnaire? After the analysis you had to create for each participant an individual report and send it to them. Heavily based on macro’s, specialised code, this could be done more or less automatic. But with a lot of risk of sending a report to the wrong participant.
We offer the Compare 2 Compete Benchmarking Survey Tool. It combines online survey, online analyses and online reporting. It gives you the tools to manage your participants. The Benchmarking Survey Tool helps you to give participants more value for their time spend to the survey. And help you save time and money.
Comparison
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Input
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Basic questionnaire
Your questions
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Online interactive questionnaire
Allowing you to skip questions or require input
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Online real-time interactive questionnaire
Real-time calculations on screen and complex visibility and requirement conditions
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Periodical questionnaire
Reuse the questionnaire (as is or with amendments) for recurring surveys
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Analyses
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Analyse manually
Basic analyses using Excel
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Analyse online
Analyse online in the same tool as the questionnaires
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Analyse real-time online
Real-time onscreen calculation and validations
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Reporting
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Report whole group manually
Create one report of the group and send to all
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Report individual manually
Create a report for each participant
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Online report manager
Create and manage online report templates allowing you to generate whole group and individual report on the fly
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Report generation
Participants create their own report from your templates with real-time calculated data. Both on screen or in PDF
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Use relevant reference or peer groups
Set conditions to create peer groups automatically
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Online individual analyses
Allow the participant to select its own output and create powerful analyses
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Potential users of the Benchmarking Survey Tool
Those organisations that want to conduct benchmarking surveys among smaller or larger group of participants, but do not want to lose their time on nonsensical work, unnecessary data checks, duplicate work, long lead times and much more.
Why do our clients use the Benchmarking Survey Tool?
“The Compare 2 Compete benchmark tool offered by Compare 2 Compete provides French commercial golf courses with an efficient tool to follow the evolution of the national golf market. The Compare 2 Compete benchmark tool is most useful for individual courses to benchmark themselves with the market, and for GEGF as a group to present a reliable picture of the importance and evolution of golf business in France.”

GEGF
"One of the most important aspects of collaboration is the unburdening. After our annual reconciliation the total process is carried out by Compare 2 Compete, from the invitations to provide data, validation of data, to the individual reports. Also, you mark as customer the enthusiasm of Compare 2 Compete to get started with the project. Equally important is that privacy is guaranteed of participants and the quality of the benchmark itself. We rely on years of expertise of the team of Compare 2 Compete."

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Potential surveys to be conducted with the Benchmarking Survey Tool
Features
Our Benchmarking Survey Tool makes benchmarking efficient and effective, flexible and secure, so it will not cost you a lot of time AND not much money to start a benchmark. You will save lots of time if you already conduct a benchmarking survey and transfer it to our Tool. Time you can spend directly on advising and supporting the participants.
Additional services to make sure you are successful
We not only provide the Benchmarking Survey Tool, we also offer additional services to help you succeed. We can advice you on your benchmarking survey, review questions asked, and help you creating the best benchmarking survey for your target audience.
We can adopt an existing benchmarking survey (starting with a pilot) and convert this to our Tool, turn key delivered or in collaboration. We can also implement a new benchmarking survey and your reporting demands.
We can conduct the benchmarking survey for you, especially interesting for trade associations and franchises who are not allowed or willing to see members resp franchisees results. Or we help you in conducting your survey with implementation support.
We know that benchmarking in the end is not easy, but that you can do it yourself, with or without our help. We support you with:
- Advice on benchmarking
- Implement the questionnaire for you
- Supply implementation support
- Help you implement reports
- Fully or partially conduct the survey
- Training on benchmarking and managing a survey
Affordable pricing
What does your current way of working cost you? Lots of time, that’s for sure. Time is money, so it comes with a cost. Irritated employees and uncertainty about the results also come with a cost. Outsourcing to a specialised benchmarking organisation is really expensive. And creating custom made software do conduct your benchmarking survey is always over the top.
We at Compare 2 Compete want you to be successful in benchmarking. One of the key aspects in being successful is the costs of conducting the benchmarking survey. Our Benchmarking Survey Tool is already available for only € 200 per month.
No risk policy
We at Compare 2 Compete hate it when we have to buy a license to test a software solution and also hate it when we get it for free, but don’t get any support. We want to do it differently.
You can try our software 3 months for free with full support of our helpdesk and sales team. You can use the manuals and knowledge base to get acquainted with the Tool. And ask us everything you want to know in order to make sure you implement fast and start benchmarking as soon as possible.
We can also do a pilot with you if you already conduct a benchmarking survey and want to see what you will gain if this benchmarking survey is conducted using our Benchmarking Survey Tool. For just a small amount we will setup a pilot with your questionnaire and reporting and import existing data. Once you have seen how your benchmarking survey gains from working with our tool, you wish you have found us earlier.