Expectations would be raised and then tamped down, and this cycle was repeated as the study lurched from one poorly-conceived plan to another.

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Isn't it clear that this mission was ill-conceived, poorly planned and embarrassingly executed?

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It is not change or reengineering that are the evils, rather it is ill-conceived or poorly implemented change that can cause harm.

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The stock, of course, has been plagued by a combination of a poorly received price hike and an ill-conceived (and quickly canceled) plan to separate the company into two businesses, one to rent DVDs by mail and the other to stream video digitally.

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But poorly conceived technology strategies can complicate risks, and ill-informed IT investments worsen already long odds of success.

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Transparency International, an anti-corruption lobby group, last week described plans to replace the SFO as "poorly conceived" and warned they could "reverse the UK's improving enforcement record".

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