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A frustrated question (but answers are welcome)

Dave Snowden
January 29, 2009
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I’ve had several meetings with people in local and provincial government over the last few days. One of the things I would be really interested to find out is just how much money they are spending on questionnaires and focus groups and to what effect? Everyone seems to know they don’t work, but the orthodoxy says they have to be done.

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