Alvarez & Marsal and the American Productivity and Quality Center recently announced the formation of a collaborative performance improvement effort.

The Business Consulting Group of Alvarez & Marsal and APQC will offer benchmarking advisory services to companies that participate in PowerMARQ, APQC’s comprehensive database of standardized processes used by clients to identify common measures, assess performance against competitors, and improve performance and efficiency. The benchmarking advisory sessions, jointly led by A&M’s senior team of business consultants and APQC’s measurement experts, identify improvement opportunities based on the PowerMARQ performance report and develop steps to close performance gaps.

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