We hope to increase the number of data scientists over time, through iterative cognition, and through rising up the ladder from data to information, without needing to understand every nuance of every analytical operation.

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If we expand our notion of what designers do to include the iterative improvement of any system over time, we realize that, on some level, we are all designers, all flow workers.

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Key to Medtronic's technical success, says Mr George, is iterative innovation, where the company's engineers sit down time and again with doctors to see how a device can be improved.

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Likely this is not just a one-time, start-to-finish exercise, but an iterative process of trial and error.

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And, because the strategic value propositions (or use cases) for a patent often changed as a company developed and competed with others, my approach was an iterative one that was re-visited regularly in case a decision that was appropriate at one time was no longer appropriate because of new information.

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