Digitising procurement could provide £100 billion boost to UK economy

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clock 14 November 2017 •
Digitising procurement could provide £100 billion boost to UK economy

Procurement is transforming by adopting big data, says CBI

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has said that businesses could give the UK economy a £100 billion boost to productivity, if they were to embrace technologies like cloud computing and online...

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