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Paul Graham makes an interesting point "Competitors are rarely as dangerous as they seem. Most will self-destruct before you can destroy them. And it certainly doesn't matter how many of them there are, any more than it matters to the winner of a marathon how many runners are behind him. " He is talking in terms of start ups but I think it is true of most organisations, stop looking in the rear view mirror and concentrate on the road ahead.
you will rarely steal a march on the competition by copying what they do.