Benchmarking is a way of evaluating performance metrics in a given organization by comparing them to similar performances in one or more (usually external) sources – these may be competing ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation Statistical offices have often recourse to benchmarking methods for compiling quarterly national accounts (QNA).

Arthur C. Clarke, the great science fiction writer, once observed that cave dwellers froze to death on beds of coal—lying on the very resource that could have saved their lives. But they had no way to ...

As with any processor architecture, today's designers are always on the prowl for better ways to compare a processor from one company versus a processor architecture from another. In the ...