Innovation
Innovations in Third Party Management: Applied Materials
Innovations in Governance & Compliance: Air Canada
Innovations in Outsourcing: The Boeing Company
John W. Henke Jr. and Chun Zhang: Increasing Supplier Trust and Innovation
The tricky question that most if not all companies face on a constant basis is how to get their suppliers fully engaged and committed to – and even be instrumental in driving – innovation.
While the importance of innovation is a given that dates back more than 50 years to the teachings of Peter Drucker in The Practice of Management (1954), it has only been fairly recently that academics and organizations have been studying how to make innovation go from idea to reality.
John W. Henke Jr. and Chun Zhang are two such academics.
How Digital Technologies are Changing Procurement
How Procurement Impacts the Organization
At CDK, we've really focused on some of the changes needed to improve our customer support and experience. It's been a tremendous digital transformation with regard to what CDK does for our customers, but very importantly, what we are doing within the procurement and the supply chain team to help the business be more successful, take costs out, improve on-time delivery and then pick up some additional responsibilities as we've gone along the way.