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The Value for Business and Operations Strategy

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This chapter begins with a discussion of the value of AM for business strategies, and describes the impacts it has on a firm’s competitiveness. It then shows how AM can drive creativity and innovation , and the nature of the innovation that may occur thanks to AM. Then, the capability of the technology to offer new online services is explained.

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    Mojtaba Khorram Niaki & Fabio Nonino

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Khorram Niaki, M., Nonino, F. (2018). The Value for Business and Operations Strategy. In: The Management of Additive Manufacturing. Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56309-1_4

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