Because of these issues the machine design industry does not have a completely linear process. The linear nature of machine design is driven by two factors.

In times of great uncertainty, strategic planning must shift from a bureaucratic, linear process to a more targeted approach that is both analytic and creative.

Once the doors are open, though, many entrepreneurs cannot shake off that linear process and make the shift to a parallel process. Inevitably, every potential customer and returning client is ...

We are mixing up ways of thinking when we consider innovation as a linear process; in fact, we need two sets of rules to think about innovation and the harvesting of innovation, much as we need ...

By analyzing age-related markers, such as proteins and DNA tags in the bloodstream, some scientists are coming to understand that aging in adulthood is not a linear process, but perhaps one that ...