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» 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 [...]
Read More» I have posted many blogs over the last couple of years on the subject of ERP B2B integration and how SAP projects for example can benefit from being integrated seamlessly to a B2B platform. I thought it would be worth exploring this subject further by expanding on the following statement, ERP systems are incomplete without [...]
Read More» Many of today’s IT departments have been relatively slow to embrace cloud computing. Cloud computing is not just hype and it is not something that can be ignored especially with so many analysts getting behind how this technology can help companies become more efficient with how they manage IT infrastructures. Now you can’t tell me [...]
Read More» In January 2012, GXS’ VP of Global Marketing, Steve Keifer, had a meeting with a UK Government Minister at the Houses of Parliament in London. It was a very productive meeting where GXS’ Head of eInvoicing Nigel Taylor provided an update on why companies should think about moving away from paper based invoicing to eInvoicing. [...]
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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» As I am currently on a business trip in India I thought it would be a good time to provide an update on what is currently going on in the automotive industry in the country at the moment. I was fortunate enough to experience what it is like to travel on India’s roads when I [...]
Read More» Ever since I was at school I have had an ambition to compete in the Paris-Dakar car rally, I guess this was fuelled by my interest in motorsport and watching countless hours of Paris-Dakar coverage on the Eurosport satellite channel! The one barrier to me pursuing this challenge has been the cost to enter these [...]
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» A few weeks ago, IDC released their annual predictions for the manufacturing sector in 2012. I recently attended two IDC webinars, one focusing on manufacturing trends in EMEA and the other discussing general technology trends across the sector. Now there weren’t too many surprises in terms of where manufacturers should invest their money this year, [...]
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