How does an organization benefit from good science strategic priority setting?

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Science is for effectively and efficiently doing things with the consideration of morals and cost/effect balance. In another word, science is rooted in methodology, as tools to be used for solving the problem or improving the conditions. Strategy is about choices, and the strategic priorities are the most consequential and relevant choices an organization needs to make to survive or to thrive. For this matter, setting a strategic priority cannot be isolated from science. Science needs research. It is a process to identify or prove that effectiveness and efficiency. In this process, timing is also an important factors for setting the strategic priorities. Organizations need to keep on-going research & development for long-term continued success, while for short-term, they need to promptly implement the good science results in their practice to achieve the effectiveness and efficiency.



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