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Procurement's Best-Priced Deal May Stifle Innovation

Harvard Business Review

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. The real-world drawback with this declaration of innovation interdependence is neither cultural nor operational.

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Do We Need A Recruitment Agency For Robots?

The Horizons Tracker

The number of industrial robots in operation around the world has grown rapidly in recent years, but nowhere more so than in China, where some 30% of the world’s robots are in operation. Internalize the costs of automation (and their benefits) – With a particular focus on the total cost of ownership (TCO).

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