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The Performance Benchmarking Forum (PBF) serves the international construction sector in managing forums for Chief Executives and other Main Board Directors of the larger consulting firms and other design and project professionals. They come together to share experience in addressing current sector issues.

The PBF is unique in the way it provides accurate benchmarking of business performance. The carefully defined metrics, their method and frequency of collection, analysis and reporting, provide reliable, confidential comparisons between direct competitors. They are delivered efficiently and effectively, minimising the time and effort required by Members.

PBF Members are leading firms with a serious interest in understanding their comparative strengths and weaknesses, and are committed to seeking the highest standards of performance.

Drake House Management Consultants Chairman Derek Hindley formed the UK PBF in August 1997 and in 2003 the SAPBF in South Africa, meeting in Johannesburg and Cape Town. Expansion is currently active in the USA and Australasia.

On behalf of Members, personally, he has developed, and run the organisations, chairing some 100 forums, and delivering individual company performance reviews every 6 months.

Since 1997 around two hundred and fifty top executives from over one hundred leading consulting engineering and other professional firms in the UK and South Africa have built a comprehensive and consistent database of performance knowledge and experience through forums and quarterly data inputs; equivalent to over 30 years of annual surveys conducted for industry associations.

Some firms compare their performance against others in their industry sector by participating in annual surveys organised by their trade or professional body. Frequently these are promoted as benchmarking. Although the subsequent reports make interesting reading, and can give a good overview of the structure of the industry and its general performance, they lack integrity: they are of limited value to a firm seeking to really understand how it measures up to its competitors. Getting Value from Benchmarking click here