Benchmarking is not new. For centuries, armies compared tactics, merchants compared trade routes, and artisans compared techniques. But benchmarking as a formal business discipline truly began in the 1980s — and it started with Xerox. In the early 1980s, Xerox was under siege. Japanese copier manufacturers like Canon and Ricoh were producing faster, cheaper, and better machines.…
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