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With constraints on public funding, operational efficiency in your development programme is paramount. Benchmarking through SDS Catalyst enables you to objectively measure and compare your performance with your peers'.
Our online benchmarking club is designed specifically for the social housing sector. As a member, you will gain invaluable data on schemes you've developed and the overhead costs of your development team.
Besides the online scheme reports, you will receive an annual written report with a wide variety of Key Performance Indicators and an Efficiency Report focusing on the KPIs and trends for your organisation.
SDS Catalyst has established itself as the leading social housing benchmarking club and is endorsed by HouseMark. Here's what Ross Fraser, Chief Executive of HouseMark, has to say about the club:
"We believe SDS Catalyst provides an excellent development benchmarking service to registered providers and we recommend it to our subscribers."
SDS Catalyst is run and administered jointly by SDS and Patrick Symington Consultancy. Together they provide an unrivalled combination of expertise and understanding of benchmarking, development and finance.
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• High level indicator of efficiency
• Shows the quartile ranking in your peer group
• More detail available to identify reasons for good/poor performance
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• Each scheme has a list of essential questions and some optional questions
• Data is validated on entry to highlight possible errors
• Each question has help notes displayed as a tool tip
• Data input page captures scheme attributes, totals for costs, timings quality and subsidy
• On submission the data is checked by a Catalyst Validator before being added to database
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• One of several appendices in the Efficiency Report
• Identify which schemes contribute to the KPIs
• See scheme results compared with benchmarks
• This helps to understand the reason for good/poor performance
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• One of several charts showing comparison with benchmark and trends
• Full schedule of data behind each benchmark to assist analysis
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• One of several ad hoc charts
• This shows trend analysis of public subsidy for each peer group
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• Schemes can be individually benchmarked
• Reports also available showing consolidated group data
• Filters allow flexibility in reporting options
