Performance Benchmarking

Please enter your thoughts, suggestions, questions, concerns, successes, etc. about performance benchmarking.

One of my all-time favorite benchmarking initiatives (and perhaps the best and longest running) is the North Carolina Benchmarking Project.  http://www.sog.unc.edu/programs/perfmeas/index.html

Here are some more benchmarking sites:

OMBI out of Canada is an amazing benchmarking effort http://www.ombi.ca/index.asp

Florida: http://www.flbenchmark.org/default.aspx

Southeastern: http://www.seresultsnetwork.org/index.php

South Carolina: http://www.ipspr.sc.edu/grs/SCMBP/SCMBP.asp

ICMA of course is the biggest; they also have multiple regional efforts including Puget Sound (but not much online re: the regional efforts) http://icma.org/main/bc.asp?bcid=107&hsid=12&ssid1=2470&ssid2=2540

Barrett and Greene assist with the "Grading the States" project at the Pew Center for the States.  http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org/gpp_report_card.aspx    Which has led to lots of ranking efforts.  What do you think about this effort to rank the best state for business?  http://www.cnbc.com/id/25501924  and  http://www.cnbc.com/id/25350187/site/14081545/