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Procurement's Best-Priced Deal May Stifle Innovation

Harvard Business Review

In other words, innovation occurs when we bypass or disintermediate procurement. Procurement's people have to enjoy comparable recognition and rewards for making a new product or service profitable as for, say, successfully consolidating a supplier segment or driving cost out of an outsourcing deal. It's leadership.

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