If someone is doing something more successfully than you are, it makes sense to look over their shoulder and see what you can learn from them. US manufacturers started doing this when they realised that Japanese competitors were taking away their markets. It’s called benchmarking, and it has become so widespread among big companies that some business thinkers now caution against it.
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