Devised by Peter Keen and executed by Brailsford, the strategy of concentrating on technical detail, academy development and coaching expertise laid the foundations on which Brailsford could build a team capable of winning the Tour de France.
"There are exciting times ahead with the current academy players and its recent graduates," said Mike Hynard, Premiership Rugby's head of academies and development.
The ex-Royal Marines officer, formerly with London Irish and Bristol, comes from Premiership Rugby, where he was the head of academies and development.
Academy manager Jimmy Phillips and head of academy coaching and development Sammy Lee will take joint temporary charge of the first-team squad.
Tony Diprose, the current defence coach, assumes the grand – and new – title of academy and global development director.
The former Liverpool and England midfielder left Anfield in 2011 and returned to Bolton, where he was made head of academy coaching and development.
"Basketball and footy are such 360-degree games, while American football is always right in front of the player," said Mick Ablett, the league's academies development manager.
This interdisciplinary collaboration of academy and industry enables development of customised strategic concepts for the individual BIM-settings within multi-disciplinary planning context.
"The third important element is the development of academy programmes in Asia and taking a longer-term view and United have an academy in China while Liverpool are in Indonesia".
"Maybe at the next stage of our academy's development we'll have two Oxlade-Chamberlains in a single year, and then three".
