Driving B2B
It doesn’t seem long ago that I was discussing how the U.S government was bailing out car manufacturers in order to protect their manufacturing industry, the associated supply chains and the thousands of people that rely on the manufacturing sector for their livelihood. GM and Chrysler accepted significant government bail-out funds however Ford decided to [...]
Read More»The OFTP2 implementation guidelines were introduced at the end of 2008, at a time when many companies were just starting to enter one of the most severe economic downturns of recent years. During this time, automotive companies were restructuring, consolidating IT infrastructures and the last thing on their minds was to start investing in new [...]
Read More»I have been a GXS blogger for four years now and during 2011 I posted nearly forty blog entries covering a range of B2B and manufacturing related topics. Over this time Google Analytics has provided me with some interesting feedback on which blog posts were being read the most, which key words were used to [...]
Read More»In my previous blog entry I described how GXS had nominated Santa Claus to win a B2B Heroes in the Cloud Award for 2011. I then went on to discuss how Santa had implemented his cloud based B2B environment over the last three years. You can find out more information about how Santa’s B2B platform [...]
Read More»GXS recently announced the winners of its 2011 B2B Heroes in the Cloud Awards. These awards were presented to 20 individuals who had made a significant impact on how B2B was used within their company. Nearing the end of 2011, GXS felt that there was one other individual who should be recognised for his contributions to [...]
Read More»2011 will certainly be remembered as the year when cloud computing went mainstream. It has got onto the agenda of nearly every CIO around the world and you have not been able to visit an IT related website or read a business related journal without some sort of reference to cloud computing. When you look [...]
Read More»Over the past twelve months I have posted a number of blog entries relating to cloud based B2B integration and I will summarise these posts in a followup blog. In the meantime I thought it might be useful to try and highlight some of the more general things that need to be taken into consideration [...]
Read More»Today’s ERP environments are at the centre of many enterprise IT infrastructures, from managing employee or customer related information through to delivering information required to run complex production systems. Many people often regard an ERP system as being internally focused, however without reliable connections to outside trading partners, for example banks, suppliers or logistics partners, [...]
Read More»Toyota has suffered one of its toughest years in its history, the Japanese earthquake back in March severely affected Toyota’s global production capacity for many months and is only now starting to get back to some form of normality. Toyota was obviously not the only company to be impacted by the earthquake and they, like [...]
Read More»Earlier this year I posted a blog entry discussing why I thought Apple and Tesla Motors should try and form a partnership to exploit the growing interest in electric vehicles. The blog was recently picked up by a student at the University of Florida who asked me to provide some more thoughts on this idea. [...]
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