This disposal process should in theory have no correlation with the Special Liquidator valuation and disposal process or indeed the Department of Finance.

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As with most things in the corporate world, there is too much process built upon theory and not nearly enough practice built on experience.

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It's a simple enough process, in theory, but there's a good chance you're going to find yourself performing it several times before things are just right.

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At the root of his process is the theory spelled out by Joel Greenblatt in his seminal 2005 work, The Little Book That Beats the Market.

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The CDOI Approach contains no fixed techniques or invariant patterns in process and no causal theory about the concerns people bring.

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The process will, in theory, accelerate.

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More specifically, rather than provide a long manifesto of the theory behind lean startup, Udacity breaks down the process of launching a business into practical steps for systematically testing hypotheses and developing a business plan that will actually work.

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In theory, such specialisation should increase the efficiency of the venture-capital process, as it does in other industries.

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But the theory, once current in Israel, that business could sustain the peace process even if politics failed is proving false.

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And that process, though it frees designers to be more radical in their creations, also produces objects that are more theory than thing.

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