The discussion about e-invoicing is beating around the bush, at least when it comes to banks involved in the process of exchanging data. Having had the pleasure of working some of the forerunners in electronic invoicing (both banks and operators) I wish to elaborate on the flipside as well, by releasing this note about the status of electronic invoicing in Finland. The opinions stated within are solely my personal and has nothing to do with any entity I might represent. I aim to be as objecti..
Interesting article in Business Week. Not much new perhaps - but crystallizing. Goes as follows:
- digital friendship speak volumes about us as consumers (my focus here..) and workers
- defining the value of these relationships has become a "defining" cahllenge for businesses..
- marketers are finding that if your friend buys something there is a better-than average chance that also you will buy it
It all relates to the sea change in media businesses. Not long ago there was a captive audience sitt..
This is just a thought, more like a question for the experts.
Even now it seems a bit difficult for a small company to start recieving electronic invoices. This might become a bit easier if the smallest companies could choose to recieve e-invoices into their internet bank like consumers nowadays can. They would only give a consent in the bank when opening the account and to the company sending the invoice.
It would be enough if the picture of the invoice could show on his bank statement before..
ComScore has released the results of its research into the spread of online banking in Europe. In my view the research must be flawed, I can't believe Finland is only ranked 10th here.
Parts of this press release (full press release: http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=2777 ):
LONDON, U.K., April 16, 2009 - comScore, Inc. released its first ever ranking of the most visited online banking properties in Europe, based on February 2009 data from the comScore World Metrix audience measu..
I attended a short seminar in which Hannele Walenius presented a joint research on P2P lending, where a loan is established by means of an auction. They had examined and analyzed bidding strategies on Prosper.com, an American P2P lending site. They withheld judgement on such a system. I had only heard of similar initiatives, but had not delved deeper into the social mechanics connected to it.
What we currently see in these lending systems is quite troubling. The social mechanics of auctions ar..
