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The Four Kinds of Research-and-Development Teams
What kind of R-and-D team do you want to build?
We can hear--in the mind's ear--the kudos and praise raining down from the C-Suite as the whatever-thing we just built is rolled out company-wide and maybe, just maybe, industry-wide. New programming languages, new databases, new architecture styles, new whatever-fill-in-the-blank, just so long as it is (a) new and (b) not yet mainstream, it's a candidate for the Scout Team's infinite desire to create prototypes that bear a remarkable resemblance to the demos that the new thing has on its website or in its documentation. The spy team doesn't get industry press articles written about the things they are doing, but they do often adopt a technology quickly enough to make a difference without paying the cost of finding all the mistakes and wrong assumptions about it.
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