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A discussion of trends in innovation management within financial institutions, and the key processes, technology and cultural shifts driving innovation.
Purchasinginsight.com stated that B2B standards are a waste of time, a waste of energy, intellectual capacity and money. That they have no place in the business world in 21st century. And that standar...
Finally we have seen the impetus required to start the mobile NFC ball rolling. There is a strong likelihood that Apple will announce that the next iteration of the iPhone will contain an NFC chip,
Imagine Steve Jobs saying Steve Ballmer just called him to say Microsoft decided to stop the development of Windows; that he just received a package containing the entire Windows source code; and that...
Eric Schmidt and the team at Google yesterday announced that they are going to beat Apple at the NFC game and will launch their new phone the Nexus S, code-named Gingerbread, within just 'weeks'. Chec...
A new study by Maija Tenhunen and Esko Penttinen about the carbon footprint of invoicing reveals that the paper based process generates as much as 450g on average and electronic invoice can go as l...
I've had a quick shot at a mock-up advertisement of how Apple might launch the next iPhone 5 based on an earlier concept mock-up of what people thought the iPhone 4 might look like. I hope you like i...
The Trade Standard Evaluation Group approved the ISO 20022 (UNIFI) standard for electronic invoices on the 29th of October 2010. The opening address by Jorgen Holmquist (Director General at the EU-com...
Studies made for EU reveal that the VAT Gap (difference between theoretical VAT receipts and actual payments) exceeds 100BN€ every year since 2000 (118,8bn€ in 2009). All of this is not fraud or looph...
I've been at the E-Money, Cards and Payments conference in Moscow today. Coming off the back of SIBOS it is quite interesting to have a discussion not just about payments, but around modality and the ...
Very spot on article in The Economist. Some snippets (emphasis mine) and comments: - “productivity growth is the closest economics gets to a magic elixir, especially for ageing advanced economies” - p...
Twitter has been referred to as the Marmite of social media. You either love it or you hate it. I must admit that despite being a regular tweeter, I have been having mixed feelings about this channe
Thankfully, I think we are almost at the point of having serious conversations about how social media can be utilized in most organizations, rather than still asking the question "Is Social Media...