Hilary Mason: Separating R&D from product rarely works for tech companies
Hilary Mason · Hilary Mason // Data Driven NYC 20 // Nov 2013 · Dec 5, 2013 · at 18:52
Data scientist Hilary Mason discusses how tech organizations balance pure data research against product engineering during a Data Driven NYC Q&A.
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“I have seen companies that successfully separate, ah, research and development as long as everyone still eats lunch together but generally that doesn't seem to be a great approach in that you eventually end up with a research department off in the corner publishing papers and a product that is over here, you know, doing whatever the product does, and they don't really, ah, integrate effectively.”
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