Everyone is talking about Facebook this week. How is that different than every other week you might wonder? This week, of course, will be host to the long anticipated Facebook IPO. The average person thinks of Facebook as simply a medium to keep in touch with friends and family, but the company is much more [...]
Read More» Throughout 2012 and most of 2011 the hottest topic in the supply chain has been risk management – and with good cause. In March 2011 when the terrible tsunami hit the East Coast of Japan, many of the world’s supply chains were crippled in the following months. Few people realized the extent to which the [...]
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I was recently invited to attend the Deloitte Indirect Taxation conference in Westminster, London. This is an annual event that brings together industry professionals to discuss indirect taxation matters and industry trends around invoicing and trade. While the conference covered a wide spectrum of subjects, from the recent EU white paper on the future of [...]
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A compelling bank value proposition has to be unique – differentiated with a clear justification to enter or expand the business relationship, combined with benefits and demonstrated return. But, unique differentiators have to be supported by unique business processes, technology and people, all of which reflect the spirit, values and brand of a bank. This, [...]
Read More» On Tuesday, GS1 US and GS1 Germany announced that it was creating a joint venture between their data pool subsidiaries – 1SYNC and SA2. SA2 and 1SYNC operate the two largest data pools in the world. The combined entity will host more than 7 million items synchronized between 15,000 businesses. This new joint venture is [...]
Read More» Last week GXS attended and exhibited at the NACHA PAYMENTS 2012 conference in Baltimore MD. There were many interesting educational sessions to choose from across several tracks. One session caught my eye in the Corporate Payments Solution track titled “The ERP Integration Cloud is Here!” presented by Rene Schuurman, Director and Product Manager Connectivity, from Citi [...]
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Earlier today I presented the keynote presentation at the 116th EDIFICE conference in Frankfurt, Germany. The EDIFICE association is an industry body that looks after the B2B related interests of companies operating across the high tech industry. This presentation was very timely as I have recently returned from a business trip to the East Coast [...]
Read More» It’s been tough, but I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking recently. And I’ve been thinking about risk in the supply chain. My mind has been focussed on this partly because it’s become increasingly important but also because we are giving presentations this week at the EDIFICE event on “Risk and Resilience” in the [...]
Read More» GXS recently sponsored a webinar titled “Key Technology Initiatives for Commercial Banking and Payments 2012.” CEB TowerGroup Research Director Steve Murphy and Associate Analyst Leo Lipis joined me to present the key business dynamics driving technology priorities in 2012. (You can view a replay of the webinar and get a copy of the slides.) Steve [...]
Read More» Last week I was fortunate to be able to attend some customer meetings in Japan. It was my first trip to the country and I was interested to learn how the manufacturing industry was embracing the internet and cloud computing in this part of the world. Japanese companies have traditionally preferred using home grown, behind [...]
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