Carla O’Dell didn’t just promote benchmarking, she scaled it globally. As CEO of the American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC), she transformed benchmarking from an internal exercise into a structured, cross-industry knowledge system. Before APQC, benchmarking was internal, isolated and tactical. Under her leadership, it became cross-industry, data-driven and institutional. Her key insight was simple: data has…
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