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re-engineering

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noun

    1. the restructuring of a company or part of its operations, esp by utilizing information technology

    2. ( as modifier )

      a massive re-engineering programme

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But it fell into a trap of focusing too much on each agent’s individual use cases rather than using them for more impactful large-scale process re-engineering.

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It would have been difficult to accomplish such re-engineering under the bombardments of the past three weeks, he said.

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In the Arctic, using such basics often requires thorough re-engineering.

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"Re-engineering the next generation of immunotherapies tops the charts in terms of unmet clinical needs," Notti says.

From Science Daily

Winners focused exclusively on proactive measures— launching new products, entering new markets, re-engineering how they sell, rethinking revenue models.

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