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From Supply Chains to Supply Chain Networks

Randy — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:09:34 +0000

Supply Chain - the Way We Were. The term “supply chain” many years ago was a phrase that not many people understood, but it distinctly described the nature of moving goods to market. Everyone in the supply chain knew who they were linked to in the supply chain. The supplier linked to the manufacturer, and [...]

Beyond Internet Bubble Business Models

Randy — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:27:32 +0000

“Just get tons of traffic to your web site and then worry about how to make a profit”. This use to be the internet business model for any successful internet business. A lot has happened since the glory days of the Internet Bubble. The “maximize traffic” internet business model use to work at least for [...]

Situational Awareness Technology for Logistics Operations

Randy — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:47:36 +0000

Over the years many new supply chain technologies have come from the U.S. military and government. This has included the internet, wireless, RFID, and now situational awareness technology. For the military, situational awareness is critical for command and control and to have the ability to act within the enemy’s decision-making cycle. From a logistics perspective, [...]

B2B eCommerce, the Fuzzy Technology

Randy — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:16:19 +0000

B2B eCommerce continues to be a misunderstood technology. Many businesses either ignore B2B eCommerce or shy away from it because they do not understand it. B2B eCommerce is a fuzzy thing to get your hands around. I think it is because people cannot see it or touch it like you can with computer hardware or [...]

Do the IT Titles Architect and Principal Mean Anything?

Randy — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:42:23 +0000

How does someone become qualified to be a senior information technologist (architect, senior project manager, principal, and so on)? Or are these titles given out fairly liberally with no real standard of what the title signifies or what that person can do? From what I can see these titles are fairly arbitrary where the only [...]

The Relationship Between Business Collaboration and B2B Integration

Randy — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:23:18 +0000

Collaboration is an interesting word. The thesaurus notes that the word, “collaboration”, has a positive connotation except in wartime (ex. working with the enemy). With that note, how do you define business collaboration? Is strategic business collaboration essential to have an optimized supply chain? Can businesses be competitors, but still collaborate to optimize their supply [...]

Brand Creation in the Chaos of Social Media

Randy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:49:53 +0000

It use to be that brand creation was governed by the product manufacturer. If a company had the marketing dollars and the marketing talent, a company could make about any product a successful brand. Think bottled water, cars, cell phones, and so on. Now with the advent of social media, digital-based products, and the internet, [...]

The Phenomenon of User-Generated Context on Social Webs

Randy — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:49:25 +0000

Most people are now familiar with social webs like Twitter, YouTube, and so on. These social webs are a place to connect. What is interesting is that there are four different components that make up any given social web. All social web sites will always have these same components to one degree or another. These [...]

Windows 7 Rollout - That Deer in the Headlights Feeling

Randy — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:38:02 +0000

Microsoft has announced that home users can pre-order the Microsoft Windows 7 upgrade for only $49.99. This offer is only good until July 11th and then you do not actually get the upgrade till October 22nd. This announcement causes a lot of mixed emotions for me. These emotions include frustration, relief, and that “deer [...]

How To File a Complaint Using Twitter

Randy — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:56:03 +0000

All us at one time or another have wanted to file a complaint against some monolith organization that we have felt has done us wrong. The problem was that we did not know how to file a complaint or we felt there was no hope we would get any satisfaction. Now with Twitter there is [...]

Is B2B eCommerce at a Crossroads?

Randy — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:07:04 +0000

Business-2-Business (B2B) eCommerce has gone through a lot of transitions in the last decade. My question is has B2B eCommerce just been a big train wreck of late? Has there really been any real progress in realizing the dream of true electronic document exchange between businesses. Until the last decade, B2B eCommerce, which started [...]

Brand Marketing Online - Connecting With Purpose

Randy — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:01:02 +0000

Purpose-driven branding is an interesting concept as it applies to brand marketing online. Per Adscovery, purpose-driven branding “is where a company works towards a larger purpose considering profit-making to be a by-product”. Companies like Google, Whole Foods, and many other companies do purpose-driven branding. These companies are not just contributing to a good cause or [...]

Debit Card Fraud at the ATM

Randy — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:09:10 +0000

Thieves in Russia have found a new way to commit debit card fraud using an ATM machine. Basically how it works is that thieves use an inside man to install malware software on the ATM computer. The malware software enables a thief to insert a “trigger” card into the ATM which then has the malware [...]

When Will Business-To-Business eCommerce Be Exciting Again?

Randy — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:15:54 +0000

It use to be that Business-To-Business (B2B) eCommerce had all the exciting technologies. There was RFID, EDI, internet (yes internet started with Government and businesses), broadband, fiber optics, electronic payments, cloud computing, wireless, and so on. This was neat stuff. Now it seems that person-to-person (P2P) communications is using all the neat technologies. Things like [...]

The Internet Has Gone Hyperactive

Randy — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:14:49 +0000

Humans have always communicated with each other, but the ways we communicated with each other until recently changed very slowly. All of a sudden communicating over the internet has gone hyperactive. Some people are calling this Web 3.0, others are calling it 2010 web, and others are calling it real-time web. Internet communications is re-inventing [...]

Online Advertising Contributing $300 Billion to U.S. Economy

Randy — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:59:41 +0000

According to a recent study funded by the Interactive Advertising Bureau, online advertising contributes $300 billion to the U.S. economy. This equates to 2.1 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP). This study’s estimate puts the web advertising sector on par with the farm sector. Wow. How things change. As I recall, in the late [...]