Know where you stand.Know how to improve.
Ibensoft delivers DEA-based benchmarking reports for regulated sectors — giving operators, municipalities, and associations a precise, methodologically rigorous view of their performance relative to sector peers.
An Ibensoft report will tell you
Efficiency score
You see exactly where you stand relative to the best performers in your sector — expressed as a precise score, not a rank.
Peer identification
You see which specific organisations are outperforming you, and why they are relevant comparators given your scale and operating conditions.
Improvement potential
You see how much cost reduction or output improvement is theoretically achievable — quantified directly from your operating data.
Sector ranking
You see your position in the full sector distribution, including where the quartile boundaries fall and where the outliers sit.
Time-series tracking
For recurring subscribers: you learn whether you are converging toward the frontier or drifting from it — period by period.
Methodology appendix
Every assumption is stated. Every variable is defined. The analysis is fully auditable by your own team or an external reviewer.
Active sectors
Sectors where Ibensoft maintains a live data pipeline and can deliver advanced benchmarking reports.
Built on 25 years of applied research
Peter Bogetoft
- Professor of Economics, Copenhagen Business School
- Author of Benchmarking with DEA, SFA, and R and Performance Benchmarking: Measuring and Managing Performance (Springer, 2011 & 2012)
- Written more than 100 scientific articles and published 7 books, as well as open-source R software and proprietary interactive benchmarking systems
- Has advised regulators, industry associations and companies across numerous sectors, including energy, water, health care and financial services, in Europe and North America
The fastest way to improve is to learn from those who already do it better. Benchmarking shows which comparable organisations deliver more with similar resources, and what you can learn from them.
It also shows how the regulator’s model sees you. When you understand that, you can plan ahead, focus on the improvements that matter, and talk to the regulator on an informed basis. Regulation works best when the companies being regulated understand it.
Our ambition
Comparing performance is hard. No two organisations are alike: a rural grid operator and an urban one, a small municipality and a large one face different conditions. And most benchmarking compares you to the average, which tells you little about what is possible.
Ibensoft does it differently. Our methods compare each organisation to best practice among truly comparable peers, taking into account differences in size, conditions and tasks. The result shows not only where you stand, but how much room for improvement there is – and who to learn from.
Our work builds on more than 25 years of research in efficiency analysis. We make insights that used to require a specialist available to the utilities, municipalities and public services that need them. Fair comparisons lead to better decisions: more efficient operations, sound finances, and a stronger foundation for electrification, the green transition and better public services.
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Interactive benchmarking
A web-based tool that puts advanced benchmarking in the hands of your own team — run frontier analysis as often as you need it, on your own data, inside your own organisation. By subscription.
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Advanced benchmarking has always required a specialist. This tool is being built so your own analysts can do it themselves: choose the model, set the targets, and read the result without sending anything outside the organisation.
Set your own targets
Choose what matters most to you, whether that is lower costs, more output or both. You will see right away what is achievable and who already achieves it.
Learn from the right peers
See which comparable organisations set best practice for you, and how much each of them counts.
Follow your progress
Track your development year by year, and see whether you are catching up or the whole sector is moving.
Test mergers and collaborations
Estimate what a merger or partnership could gain, and where the gains would come from.