Going About Research for Industry Slide

Hey folks,

What's your process for doing research on an industry to make a nice slide? Say the company operates in what you think is pretty abstract. So you read a bunch of reports have some sense of the space and want to make headway on the deck. Do you just make rough notes via a text box on each slide? Have a Word doc with scattered notes? Or just start typing away...and how do you think of design?

Just curious to hear different ways fellas make decks

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