Instead of relying on the linear process of story-telling in print (which can leave much on the cutting-room floor), we created a 360-degree online view of Lynn Tilton and her firm, Patriarch Partners.

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Now design is not a linear process.

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This is not a linear process.

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Compared to the linear, process-focused nature of traditional business systems, social apps encourage people to engage and connect in real-time across departments and lines of business.

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This time line is inherent to fundamental innovation, even when done optimally, for the process is not linear from research to development to product in the market.

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The result is a book that bears important witness to the way in which narrative history with its stale linear plots is in the process of being broken down and remade in richer, more variegated ways.

ECONOMIST: 18th-century Britain

The process was not linear.

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Strategic planning is a seemingly logical, linear, step-by-step process that focuses on analysis.

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While the fan will focus on the end result of the pitch or swing, the scout will intently study all aspects of the process such as leakage, linear or rotational hitting and hand path through the strike zone.

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