Yardstick


What is Yardstick?

Yardstick is a suite of benchmarking tools that delivers "need to know" information for your business to inform your decision making and improve your service delivery. Yardstick projects largely encompass parks, facilities and roads.

An organisation's participation in Yardstick will ensure that it can compare and measure performance against others in the industry, providing a proven and sustainable delivery model with opportunities for benchmarking globally.

In addition to New Zealand, Yardstick Parks currently operates in Australia, Denmark, Finland, Norway, South Africa and Canada.

For more information on Yardstick you can visit the Yardstick website.

Read Recreation Aotearoa's 2020 Yardstick Case Study


Parks

Innovation and better management of your parks is achieved through the sharing of knowledge and information. Park managers developed Yardstick for the industry as a benchmarking tool to collect, share and compare vital information to measure current performance and drive future improvements.

Yardstick provides tools to collect and compare both management and user information.

The Benchmarks project reports on a wide range of information to identify asset provision, costs, service delivery, strategic planning and asset management best practice.

The Survey project identifies what is important to your user and how well you are meeting their expectations - it effectively measure the levels of service you are delivering and identifies you service level gaps.

Download the Parks Benchmarks information sheet

Download the Parks User Survey information sheet


Recreation Facilities

Innovation and better management of your recreation facilities is achieved through the sharing of knowledge and information. Recreation and aquatic facility managers developed Yardstick for the industry as a benchmarking tool to collect, share and compare vital information to measure current performance and drive future improvements.

Yardstick provides tools to collect and compare both management and user information.

The Benchmarks questionnaire collects a wide range of information to identify centre usage, costs, revenue, staff resource and pay rates, service delivery and asset management best practice

The User Survey identifies what is important to your facilities users and how well you are meeting their expectations

Download the Facilities Benchmarks information sheet

Download the Facilities User Survey information sheet


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