what is the difference between benchmarking and re engineering?
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Benchmarking = is basically the primary example at which you compare/measure goods, services or a value against.\n\nSimple example: say you are a high jumper and you measure/benchmark your performance against the last olympc gold medalist.\n\nre-engineering means that you are re-designing something which could be numeric, scientific, visual etc.
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This is a relative question, may have a number of variations and suggestions.\n\nI usually apply the benchmarking technique using either minimum wage or the rate of 24 karat pure gold.\n\nCheck the rate that was applicable then, take the rate as of today, get the difference in %age and then calculate the price of the item you wish to.\n\nYou will have a ball park idea.\n\nNow this is only applicable to ordinary items of use.\n\nCollectibles and items having vintage value are not to be considered in this league.\n\nI hope this will help.
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They are similar.  The only noticeable difference is how much leg-work you will be doing in drafting the plan.  It is much harder and time consuming to do a start up plan than it is an existing business, partly because the existing business is well...existing!
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I think people naturally want to improve their efforts, and that is what is being done to serve the clients better. However, there are those who have a hard time with change. It sounds as though you do. Actually, I have used both formats and find them equally well-done, although if I had to choose, I would choose the original.
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The most common benchmarks are:\n\nSENSEX\nMSCI India\nand a distant third...\nNifty 50
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There are three ways to interpret your question.\n\nIf you are looking into this timing for the purposes of code optimization, there are many profiling tools for this purpose.  If your JVM includes HotSpot (it probably does), you can use the built in profiler by using the command line argument, "-Xprof" (case sensitive, without quotes).\n\nIf you are trying to determine how long a specific function takes to run, you can use some sort of stopwatch tool.  See Sources for an example.\n\nIf you are trying to determine how long a specific instruction takes to run, you can still use a stopwatch tool, so long as you run the instruction many times in a loop and also run an empty loop (with the same number of iterations) to check the time used for things other than the instruction.  You can (and probably should) also try looking up benchmarking information on the internet.  I leave that as something for you or another answer to do.\n\nBe aware that all three of these issues are very much system dependent.  For best results, do tests on multiple systems and OSs, depending on where your future applications will be deployed.
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In aircraft structural repair, reverse engineering is used all the time.\n\nSince repair centers do not have access to aircraft design stress reports, engineers must 'reverse engineer' the existing structure to determine the maximum stress loads that the original design is capable of withstanding... and/or determine the load carrying capability lost due to the damage.\n\nOnce these loads are obtained (from reverse engineering), then a repair can be designed to restore loads lost from damage.
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Business Processing Reengineering is a farce dreamed up by someone in the 80’s. I have the book around here somewhere gathering dust and I attended several classes on it. I have tried to erase it from my mind. The idea behind it is to streamline the organization to focus on its primary line of business, which sounds like a great concept. The problem is that most companies moving to reengineering are already in deep trouble and it is really just another name for down sizing and restructuring. In fact, it has been my experience that it actually accelerates failure because management gets tied up for months with classes, meetings and finally implementation.\n\nWell run businesses are always examining their business processes. They are also listening to their customers and examining their competition. They are keeping a sharp eye out for break through technologies without letting their businesses be caught in an endless stream of technology changes for technology’s sake. The technology companies like Oracle and SAP are great at selling “Stone Soup.” That is they tell you their software will do everything and then they provide the proverbial “pot of water with the stone in the bottom.” All their clients have to do is put millions upon millions of software development dollars into the pot to make it soup.\n\nThere are so many so called great scams out there it would make the traveling medicine salesmen of old jealous with envy. \n\nJust remember there is no replacement for good management that knows the business that it is in. Continuous study, evaluation and planning makes reengineering unnecessary for all but the very few and they will probably go out of business anyway.
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Here's one site with a benchmarking tool,\nhttp://www.haveland.com/index.htm?povbench/index.php\n\nOver the years a test known as the LINPACK benchmark has become a gold standard when comparing performance. It was written by Jack Dongarra more than a decade ago and is still used by top500.org \nhttp://www.top500.org/reports/1993/section2_7_2.html
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Manual Testing is done manually by tester by putting input and checking output.\nAutomated testing is done by using tools like Loadrunner, Winrunner there are too many tools.
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Business process reengineering (BPR) is the analysis and redesign of workflow within and between enterprises. BPR reached its heyday in the early 1990's when Michael Hammer and James Champy published their best-selling book, "Reengineering the Corporation". The authors promoted the idea that sometimes radical redesign and reorganization of an enterprise (wiping the slate clean) was necessary to lower costs and increase quality of service and that information technology was the key enabler for that radical change. Hammer and Champy felt that the design of workflow in most large corporations was based on assumptions about technology, people, and organizational goals that were no longer valid. They suggested seven principles of reengineering to streamline the work process and thereby achieve significant levels of improvement in quality, time management, and cost:\n1. Organize around outcomes, not tasks.\n2. Identify all the processes in an organization and prioritize them in order of redesign urgency.\n3. Integrate information processing work into the real work that produces the information.\n4. Treat geographically dispersed resources as though they were centralized.\n5. Link parallel activities in the workflow instead of just integrating their results.\n6. Put the decision point where the work is performed, and build control into the process.\n7. Capture information once and at the source. \n\nBy the mid-1990's, BPR gained the reputation of being a nice way of saying "downsizing." According to Hammer, lack of sustained management commitment and leadership, unrealistic scope and expectations, and resistance to change prompted management to abandon the concept of BPR and embrace the next new methodology, enterprise resource planning (ERP).
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Recondition means to make the old or original pieces better.  Refurbish means to replace pieces to make the whole thing better.
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Reverse engineering (RE) is the process of taking something (a mechanical device, an electrical component, a software program, etc.) apart and analyzing its workings in detail, usually with the intention to construct a new device or program that does the same thing without actually copying anything from the original. The verb form is to reverse-engineer, spelled with a hyphen.\n\norward engineering - The traditional process of moving from high-level abstractions and logical, implementation-independent designs to the physical implementation of a system.
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BPR ( Bussiness Process Re engineering) means improvement in process with innovation on hand,In simple words.\nTQM and Kaizen or JIT( Just in time) are techniques to improvise in one process and get total quality management in whole organisation but BPR is aspect covering " Survival of the fittest" Concept where it sees that new avenues to capture...\nExamples: \nNew modals of Toyota and studying and organisation will definately help in getting knowledge of BPR...
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Loosly coupled programming languages are nothing but Object oriented languages like C++,Java...etc.In these languages there is no need to recompile the entire code if any changes are made,Only the piece of code for which the changes have been made needs to be compiled.More over as these are based on the component model they have the advantage of the re usability.\n\n                        But where as the tightly coupled languages like C..if any changes are made the entire code has to be recompiled more over the maintains of the code will also be a challenge.
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For single independent projects both will lead to the same answer with respect to acceptance or rejection. However, for mutually exclusive projects they give contradictory results. In that case the project with higher NPV rather than higher IRR should be preferred
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what is the difference between the two