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  benchmark April 2010

  benchmark april10 As the summer approaches, and winter becomes a distant memory (hopefully!), we turn our attention to “conference season” – the time when, as a community, we can look forward to meeting-up with colleagues to learn more about what is happening in the industry outside of our own respective business more

  
  
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  benchmark January 2010

  benchmark january10 The beginning of a new decade – the start of a new year – the dawn of a new era. Well, ok, excuse the hyperbole, but best wishes to each and every one of you for 2010. At least we hope that it can’t be quite as bad as 2009... As we look back over the past 12 months and quickly decide to more

  
  
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  benchmark October 2009

  benchmark october09 This week, I changed a lightbulb. In fact, in the past few weeks, I’ve changed many lightbulbs. In the spirit of environmental accountability, we’ve switched every lightbulb in our home to an ‘energy-saver’, giving us a wonderful sense of ‘doing something’ to help the environment, more

  
  
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  benchmark July 2009

  benchmark july09 It was good to meet so many benchmark readers last month at the NAFEMS World Congress in Crete. Not only was the Congress a great success in terms of the excellent technical content presented in the sessions and workshops, but events such as this allow the analysis community to come together for three days and exchange more

  
  
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  benchmark April 2009

  benchmark april09 Yes, this is benchmark magazine, just in case you were wondering what had happened. We’ve had a much-needed redesign for this issue, in the spirit of NAFEMS entering its second quarter-century, and we think it’s a change for the better. And as if to emphasise the move forward, we’d like to hear your more

  
  
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  BENCHmark January 2009

  BENCHmark January 2009 25 Years of NAFEMS NAFEMS is now officially 25 years old! Whilst there has been some debate about the precise point in time at which NAFEMS came to life, it is generally acknowledged that the official launch was the meeting at the Café Royal in London in November 1983. At the time, as NAFEMS was more