SUGGESTIONS FOR A Research and Development ANALYSIS
Provide a response to each of the following points for at least one decision you consider being most important in each of the decision areas of marketing, production, finance, and R&D, as well as for your company as a whole (the total enterprise). Use bullet points and no more than one page for each decision area. You may copy and use this form for your five responses.
1. At least one Key Result, with metric(s), for this decision area at the end of Year 4.
2. Identify why this (these) result(s) occurred. What problem or occurrence caused this result?
3. Specify one or two key results (goals) that you expect to achieve in this decision area next year – i.e., results for Year 5.
4. Identify at least one key decision related to each of these goals and objectives.
Why is this decision critical (i.e. what is the basis for it)?