Author: Pete Loughlin
21 Sep e-invoicing – as simple as getting your supplier invoices to wipe their feet
I once lived in a house with a large kitchen with a white tiled floor that was difficult to keep clean. Dark colored soles on shoes would leave unsightly marks and even the slightest spillage would stand out like a sore thumb. We quickly got used to it however and we learned to remove our shoes and clean it very regularly. The downside of the white floor was that we needed to work hard to keep it clean. The upside was it was spotless. An operating theater in a hospital was no cleaner. You could have safely performed open-heart surgery in our kitchen. Most people don’t choose white floors or carpets especially if you have young kids or pets. Darker colors or patterns camouflage the reality of life and it’s easier to live with a few grubby marks if you can’t see them and it’s exactly the same when organizations specify their business technology solutions. They specify solutions that fit in with the realities of a complex set of business process and design a solution that fits in with that. And quite right too you may say but I’d disagree. Sometimes you need a white carpet solution.13 Sep Joe Hyland from Taulia talks about dynamic discounting
Joe Hyland is Senior Director Marketing at Taulia, the dynamic discount people and I was delighted to catch up with him a couple of weeks ago to talk through the opportunities we're seeing for companies to unlock cash from their financial supply chain. Joe doesn't pull...
07 Sep OB10, Express Payments and interoperability – coffee with Luke McKeever
Luke McKeever, CEO of OB10, has done just over a year in the post so it was opportune to catch up with him and chat over a coffee about the e-invoicing market. We both shared the same view that the agenda has moved on. Luke doesn't...
04 Sep Using social media in a professional context – an idiot’s guide
Calling it an idiot’s guide is fairly safe. I’m unlikely to offend anyone. The fact that you’re reading this confirms you’re not an idiot. There has been some pretty high profile research into the power and effectiveness of social media. McKinsey estimate that it’s worth $1.3 trillion in terms of the extra value that the global economy can extract through it’s use. And we do see it used effectively. The B2C use case of viral marketing campaigns and the damage limitation campaigns (O2 deserves a medal for their recent success in managing the fallout from a network outage using twitter and, importantly, a sense of humour.) I spoke to Renette Youssef, CMO at Tradeshift recently about how they use social media as a powerful marketing tool. (You can listen to the podcast here). But how do individual professionals in procurement or finance use social media in a professional context? We see celebrities using social media all the time but as professionals, what value is there in sharing with our followers what we had for breakfast? And is it really a good idea to share pictures of your Friday night out?31 Aug Social media and guerrilla marketing – the Tradeshift secrets revealed
The recent research published by McKinsey claimed a potential value of $1.3 trillion through the effective use of social but, as we explained here, there's been some uncertainty about how to extract this value especially in the B2B space. There are organizations who have cracked...
29 Aug Supply chain finance – a game changer
Posted at 11:13h
in Financial Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Finance, Working Capital Management
We’ve always seen the banks as being the facilitators of commerce. Depending on your point of view, they’re an invaluable support to business or a necessary evil. Without a properly regulated banking industry, business in the modern world couldn’t function.
Or could it? There are changes happening that could make us question what role the banks play and in some industries and supply chains, there could be a better way.