Aspen Roots
The title of this post will invariably offend some readers as they will associate Mars with men and Venus with women. Maybe instead I should have said direct materials are from Jupiter and indirect materials are from Saturn. But the point of this post is not to associate a gender-bias with either category. Instead, the [...]
Read More»Earlier this week Quidsi, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, announced a new program called Familyhood Plus that bears a close resemblance to its parent company’s Prime offering. Quidsi, which translates to “what if” in Latin, is an umbrella company that sits atop numerous popular web brands such as Soap.com for health, beauty and household essentials; Wag.com, [...]
Read More»There has been a lot of discussion over the past few years about how we are shifting from an economy centered upon the trade of physical goods (atoms) to one that is concentrated in the exchange of intangibles such as services, information and intellectual property (bits). Some have referred to this as the “weightless economy.”
Read More»Websites such as Klout, Kred and PeerIndex measure the online influence of individuals within social networks. Scores are assigned to individual users based upon their activity on sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram. For example, Klout uses a proprietary algorithm to analyze Twitter data such as following count, follower count, retweets, list memberships [...]
Read More»Another B2B integration joke for your enjoyment…
Read More»In 2007, GXS commissioned a research study on the ROI of B2B Managed Services by Stanford University’s Global Supply Chain Management Forum. With over five years passing since this original study, we decided it was appropriate to update the findings. So in 2012, we asked Stanford to conduct another review of the benefits of B2B [...]
Read More»Ten years ago one of the top issues in the retail supply chain was synchronizing the pricing for fast moving consumer goods between the supplier, retailer and the multiple tiers of distributors in between. Products such as carbonated soft drinks and alcoholic beverages, for historical and legal reasons, are typically distributed via bottlers and wholesalers. [...]
Read More»People often draw comparisons between business networks and social networks. I have heard many vendors refer to themselves as the Facebook or LinkedIn of the supply chain – allowing business partners to connect and share information. But the corollaries between social and business networks go far deeper than just connecting and sharing. Many of the [...]
Read More»Another B2B integration joke for your enjoyment…
Read More»Nick is an entrepreneur living in the Washington DC area of the US. Nick loves to keep up with the latest technologies. As a busy IT executive he is always seeking new technologies which can add conveniences and simplicity to his life. One Saturday afternoon Nick, his wife and two children are heading out for some [...]
Read More»Jane is a busy executive living in in Hong Kong. She is pursuing her MBA while also maintaining an active social life and a busy travel schedule. One night Jane leaves her high rise apartment overlooking Victoria Harbor to attend a golf lesson. Before leaving she fills her smart washing machine with a load of [...]
Read More»Nigel is a forty-something, successful business executive living in the UK. He has a posh flat on the West End of London, which sits empty most of the day. Nigel is busy with work and hobbies. And he does not like to go grocery shopping much. Therefore he invested in a smart refrigerator. The appliance [...]
Read More»Another B2B Integration joke from GXS
Read More»In my post earlier this week I explained how every company needs a C-3PO to speak the many different languages that are used in electronic business. But to truly be successful in B2B, you need not only need to translate different types of messages and protocols like a C-3PO would provide, but you also need [...]
Read More»All eyes were on Washington DC earlier this week as President Obama was sworn into his second term as President of the United States. But for those of us in the B2B e-commerce industry this was not the only big inaugural event of the week. EDIFICE held its first ever Plenary in the United States [...]
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