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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

The ManpowerGroup Contingent Workforce Index of 2013 showed 40% of all ManpowerGroup consulting engagements blended permanent and contingent workers. The disconnect between HR and Procurement often means either choice is suboptimal on its own, so operating managers circumvent both HR and Procurement.

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Don't Draw the Wrong Lessons from Better Place's Bust

Harvard Business Review

Instead of buying batteries, consumers would buy subscriptions for miles (just as mobile-phone operators sell subscriptions to minutes). Better Place would then use these multi-year contracts to finance its infrastructure investments and battery depreciation. By May 2013 it had sold fewer than 3,000 vehicles. What Went Wrong?