Abstract
Best Practices Budget and Staffing Benchmark Guide (180 PowerPoint slides)
allows companies to critically evaluate their budgets and staffing levels in
order to enhance organizational efficiencies.
To ensure organizational health and competitiveness, companies must
continually identify optimal resource levels for their operations. Sometimes,
companies need to grow resources, while at other times, the need is to defend
or shrink resources. Best Practices Budget and Staffing Benchmark Guide allows
executives to critically assess the efficiency of key business functions:
Marketing, E-Business, Federal and State Government Affairs and Corporate and
Executive Communications.
Budgeting and staffing data compiled for this study was collected from 72
leading companies (see participant list below). Many of the companies provided
data for multiple business functions. On average 18 companies participated in
each study and make up the benchmark class.
If you have to defend or validate budget and staffing resource decisions, the
Best Practices Budget and Staffing Benchmark Guide will prove invaluable.
*Staffing and Budget data was compiled for the 2005-2006 cycle, but can be
applied to project future budget cycles.
Industries Profiled:
Manufacturing; Pharmaceutical; Financial Services; Insurance; Health Care;
Shipping; Automobile; Biotech; Aerospace; Computer Hardware; Computers; High
Tech; Consumer Products; Diagnostic; Electronics; Internet
Companies Profiled:
3M; Experian; Novo Nordisk; Abbott Labs; Farnam Companies Inc.; NT Services;
AIM Investments; FedEx; Plymouth Rock Assurance Corp.; ALTANA Pharma; Ford;
American Fidelity Assurance; Fujifilm Sericol USA Inc; Principal Financial
Group; Amylin Pharmaceuticals; Genentech; Prosperity Mortgage; Aurora Health
Care; Gerdau Ameristeel; Relizon; AXA Financial; GSK; Rolls-Royce Defence
Aerospace; BAE Systems; Hewlett-Packard; Sandy Spring Bank; Baxter
International; Bayer HealthCare; IBM; Solar Turbines; BB&T; Intel
Study Snapshot
The Best Practices Budget and Staffing Benchmark Guide provides budget and
staffing benchmark data for the following business functions:
- Marketing: Marketing Strategy, Marketing Operations and Communications
and Market Research (34 participants)
- E-Business (30 participants)
- Federal and State Government Affairs (12 participants)
- Corporate and Executive Communications (18 participants)
Executives and managers can compare their business functions, budgets and FTE
(Full Time Equivalent Resources) counts to the industry as a whole, using
the following key metrics:
- FTE per Activity (activities are customized for each business
function)
- FTE Allocation by Broad Business Function
- Budget Allocation per Business Function
- Budget Allocation per FTE
- Budget Allocation Expressed as a Percentage of Sales
- Sales Per FTE
- Efficiency Ratios
Key Findings
All benchmark data is presented in tables designed to allow viewers easy
access. Findings are presented by business function and focus on 4 key
efficiency metrics
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