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:
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/