{"id":17,"date":"2018-07-03T10:53:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T08:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp7.ipk.fraunhofer.de\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2025-04-02T17:45:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:45:36","slug":"about-the-network","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.globalbenchmarking.org\/index.php\/about-the-network\/","title":{"rendered":"The Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"276\" data-end=\"342\"><strong data-start=\"276\" data-end=\"342\">Empowering Organizations Through Benchmarking &amp; Best Practices<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-start=\"133\" data-end=\"380\">The <strong data-start=\"137\" data-end=\"174\">Global Benchmarking Network (GBN)<\/strong> is a premier international alliance of benchmarking centers, research institutes, and organizations committed to driving excellence through benchmarking, best practice sharing, and performance improvement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-start=\"382\" data-end=\"743\">Founded in 1994 by leading institutions from Germany, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States, GBN has since grown into a global platform, connecting <strong data-start=\"549\" data-end=\"600\">benchmarking ambassadors from over 25 countries<\/strong>. The network serves as a central hub for professionals and organizations striving to <strong data-start=\"686\" data-end=\"711\">learn, grow, and lead<\/strong> through continuous improvement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-start=\"745\" data-end=\"1062\"><strong data-start=\"745\" data-end=\"761\">Benchmarking<\/strong>\u2014the practice of learning from the experience and success of others\u2014is a powerful tool for generating breakthrough ideas, fostering innovation, and achieving exceptional performance. It remains one of the most effective and widely used methods for organizational improvement and strategic development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-start=\"1064\" data-end=\"1246\">For over two decades, GBN has played a vital role in advancing the use and impact of benchmarking worldwide\u2014empowering organizations across sectors to reach new levels of excellence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empowering Organizations Through Benchmarking &amp; Best Practices The Global Benchmarking Network (GBN) is a premier international alliance of benchmarking centers, research institutes, and organizations committed to driving excellence through benchmarking, best practice sharing, and performance improvement. Founded in 1994 by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"featured-blog-large":false,"featured-blog-medium":false,"featured":false,"featured-blog-medium-small":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"wpadm5850","author_link":"https:\/\/www.globalbenchmarking.org\/index.php\/author\/wpadm5850\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Empowering Organizations Through Benchmarking &amp; Best Practices The Global Benchmarking Network (GBN) is a premier international alliance of benchmarking centers, research institutes, and organizations committed to driving excellence through benchmarking, best practice sharing, and performance improvement. Founded in 1994 by","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbenchmarking.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbenchmarking.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbenchmarking.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbenchmarking.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbenchmarking.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbenchmarking.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2578,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbenchmarking.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/2578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbenchmarking.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}