Updating the grand chessboard
08-May-2020 15:46
CSIS Senior Vice President for Asia and former senior national security council official Michael Green takes the debate beyond the headlines of the day to explore the historical context and inside decision-making process on major geopolitical developments from the Himalayas to the South China Sea.Experience the hard calls and consequential debates that drive US policy towards this critical region of the world.Intuitive and easy to use, it has become the main procurement strategy tool for most of the world's leading companies.Patent-protected suppliers are a particular challenge for procurement.The traditional sourcing strategies are ineffective with these suppliers, who are able to demand just about any price for their product.Simply ignoring the patent protection and in-sourcing the product or having it produced by another supplier is one option.
The following template serves both for current positions for private employees and for excellent public and not so transparent public positions.With invention on demand, a company can sometimes not only solve the problem of patent-protected suppliers, but also replace expensive components with cheaper ones.