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Apr 2012
34m 15s

66: Follow an R&D Strategy Study

StrategyTraining.com & FirmsConsulting.com
About this episode
An earlier podcast discussed a fairly labor-intensive case where we needed to literally roll-up our sleeves to find and extract data, and a corporate finance study. This engagement is somewhere in-between. It discusses a study I led to help a major corporation completely redesign their entire R&D strategy and restructure their R&D division, a behemoth of a u ... Show More
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