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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.

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Do We Need A Recruitment Agency For Robots?

The Horizons Tracker

While costs and expertise are both elements that robotics as a service can help to address by making investments a matter of operational expenses rather than capital expenses, and the maintenance of the technology outsourced to the provider, there is still a strategic divide in many smaller businesses.

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