Benchmarking - the systematic evaluation of the best of the competition - is the new buzzword in quality/product planning. This book is a synthesis of lessons learned from pioneering benchmarking companies.
I was quite pleased to find that this book was much more helpful than I originally thought it might be. My focus is on non-profit management, not the business audience the book is clearly written for. However, Spendolini does a good job at outlying the basic theory and steps of benchmarking in a way that I found to be much more helpful (at least for my purposes) then the other benchmarking titles I referred to as research sources for a benchmarking project.