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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. Vendor/partners — who are compensated by procurement — end up having to explain away or conceal the bootleg or graymarket innovation projects they're billing for. It's leadership. How healthy is that?

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5 Characteristics of Digital Giants that Enable Domination

Skip Prichard

Meanwhile, digital transformation projects continue to provide incremental benefits; however, they are not prepared to compete against how digital giants are structured to be winners. Own and disintermediate the customer relationship. This disintermediation of the customer account control is a hallmark of digital giants. .