Revolutionizing Enterprise Talent Strategies

I hope you're doing well . We are attaching an interesting paper for your review. This Draup working paper argues that the traditional Build–Buy–Borrow framework for enterprise sourcing needs to be re-examined in an AI-driven world. It proposes a seven-layer model that decomposes "Build" into three sub-layers (Foundation models, Agents, and human Skills), splits "Buy" into existing systems of record and new AI-native tools, and adds "Bots" as a fourth pillar for digital task execution.

The key insight is that the Agent layer — where an organization's institutional knowledge and orchestration logic reside — is the most strategically important and most commonly underinvested in. The paper applies the model across Finance, HR, IT, and Sales to demonstrate that the structure holds across functions. It closes with six governance principles, the most notable being: build agents before bots, staff the Skills layer for judgment, not throughput, and measure partners by the durable IP they leave behind.

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