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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

So much data - so much value

Extracting value for customers based on this data will obviously be of increasing importance also in payments - especially extended payments. The first step is to see to it that data is sent and kept in structured form - with global high quality standards - the ISO20022 family is handling most of it already

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

The importance of WHY

Saturday, February 11, 2012The importance of WHY Many of you have surely seen this presentation by Simon Sinek http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html. He very eloquently – with to help of three circles outlines how important it is - not to start with the What (what is being offered – the outer circle) or with

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

The United States of Europe

When now the market and media hystery around the Euro is fading away it is getting clear that half-pregnant is not a happy state. More integration is needed to reach the splendid potential of a true single market - the largest in the world - is needed. It is now very clear that no national politicians are allowed to borrow money (in the citizens' ...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Most read post - all times

Questions European Tax Payers should ask: https://www.finextra.com/community/members/PreviewBlog.aspx?b_id=2815 This is a post from 2009. Even if the finance crisis has since hijacked almost all attention it is more than obvious that we need to push forward with this - not only to improve productivity in all enterprises and the public sector - but ...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

e-invoicing information sources

Still relevant interview - http://eeiplatform.com/3551/interview-with-the-chair-of-the-former-ec-expert-group-on-e-invoicing/ UNCEFACT>ISO 20022 was not ready then - but now it is! See other blogposts here. And then a collection of e-invoicing information sources by EEIplatform: http://eeiplatform.com/6886/7-websites-e-invoicing-ap-automation-c...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Most viewed post 2010 - no rose garden promised

When more countries enter the race to the future of business transaction automation our experience that it takes time may be useful - blog from late 2010: "Nobody promised you a rose garden I went to a book publishing party yesterday. Wonderful book about interior design and life by extraordinary personality. Lots of cultural types around and ...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

2nd most viewed post in 2011 - e-banking is not ready

The second most viewed post last year states that e-banking is not ready: https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=5353 The points raised can be crystallized as follows: 1. New generations of smartphones and tablets mean that also bank customers start to expect proactive intelligence and context based messages. In stead of only logging ...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Most viewed post in 2011

Of my 2011 posts the Heavyweight support for ISO20022 e-invoicing message standard https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=5081 was the most viewed one. I certainly hope this is symptomatic - and serves to spread the message of what is happening. Even if customers should not worry about standards (service providers are happy to convert....

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Taiwan setting targets - 4 bn e-invoices in 2013

Su Chun-jung, the director of the Financial Data Center (that is resided under the Ministry of Finance) stated that: around 100 million e-invoices will be issued in Taiwan by the end of 2011 that figure will expand to 2 billion by the end of 2012 4 billion e-invoices will be issued in 2013. in 2013 50% of all invoices in Taiwan are e-invoices. It...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Euro crisis - eerie silence

You have surely taken note of the eerie media silence that followed the daily barrages of real or imagined bad news (like a euro break up would be possible). After the bold Italian package media seems to have lost interest – and as media does drive markets – also there the swings are now more moderate. So was the whole thing a really a media fabri...

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