EDInomics
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 [...]
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»My new book on B2B e-commerce, Herding Geese – The Story of the Information Supply Chain, is now available on Amazon.com. Wait…did I just say a book about B2B e-Commerce? You might be thinking – who in their right mind is going to devote a few hours to read a 300-page book on B2B? So [...]
Read More»Last Thursday, SWIFT announced that it had been instructed by the European Union to disconnect all of the sanctioned Iranian banks from its global financial network. SWIFT’s CEO, Lázaro Campos, stated that “Disconnecting banks is an extraordinary and unprecedented step for SWIFT. It is a direct result of international and multilateral action to intensify financial [...]
Read More»As we look back on the pattern of investment activity in B2B e-commerce between 2000 and 2010, I think we can safely declare that there was a Lost Decade. During these 10 years there were numerous attempts to revolutionize various industries with new B2B technologies. However, most of these initiatives met with only modest levels [...]
Read More»For several years now there has been an ongoing debate in the industry about how strategic information technology is to businesses. Some, such as Nicolas Carr, have argued that IT is now ubiquitous and no longer offers strategic advantages to businesses. Working for an IT vendor, I have an inherent bias towards arguing that IT [...]
Read More»B2B Integration Networks are making the front pages of the newspaper again today as SWIFT faces growing pressure to block Iranian banks from using its network. An article from the Associate Press this morning provides a full background on the story stating “The United States and Europe are considering unprecedented punishment against Iran that could [...]
Read More»In 1882, Spaniards in Barcelona began construction on the large Roman Catholic Church commonly known as the Sagrada Familia. The church was designed by the architect Antoni Gaudi who took responsibility for the project in 1883. However, the construction project outlived its designer carrying on into the 20th century. In the 1900s, financing challenges and [...]
Read More»With the end of the year coming soon, I thought I would provide a recap of the top EDInomics posts from 2011. The ranking is based upon information gathered from Google Analytics about end-user visits to new posts published in 2011.
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