Comment: Do not focus on customers

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A new book on corporate strategy argues for more investment in long-term research and development, rather than customer focus groups, writes James Woudhuysen

UK investment has been falling for five years. Now consumers, worried by Gulf War 2, have brought retail growth to its weakest level in three years. The coalition's military tactics seem to be a fu...

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