Conference on Customs Transit Fraud Brussels hosted today a unique industry conference on fighting fraud in the Customs transit regime in the EU. The conference was organized by the Robert Schuman Foundation in collaboration with...
The Amazon Business Model: Is Amazon Entering Sports? How Does Football Fit Into The Amazon’s Business Model? Amazon recently won a broadcast deal in which it bought the rights to stream UK football (soccer) Premier League...
Reflecting on Technology Trends Driven by my participation in an IoT conference last week, I re-read Gartner’s article laying out Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2018. I focused on thinking about the future of...
Tim Cook’s statement that there is no such thing and there has not been such thing as the Apple Data Business is difficult to believe, in my opinion. Here is my view on the data business of Apple and its in today’s...
The Amazon Business Model: How Do You Grow If You’re Already The Largest? Founded in 1994, in 2015 Amazon became the fastest company ever to reach $100 billion in annual sales. Once Amazon has become the global major book...
What Is UBER? This week I heard an interesting presentation by UBER, presenting the company’s mobility vision. This vision goes fay beyond a taxi company. I use the term “taxi company” because this term is often used in...
Unlikely Intersections Create Innovation Jessi Bradshaw is Senior User Experience Designer at LinkedIn, San Francisco. I had the pleasure to hear her presentation with the title “Designing happiness – how design thinking and...
IoT Conference Conferences are good places to learn what’s happening in the industry, to hear new ideas (and reflect on what their impact on you is) and to extend your professional network. Today I will share insights from an...
The Data Inspired Professional When you work in the information industry, you’re expected to be “data inspired”. If you do not get excited by analyzing data and creating insights, you’re in the wrong industry. Just like a...
Causality: Diversity, Open-Mindedness, Innovation I participated in a very interesting event in Luxembourg, bringing together people from various backgrounds: technology & finance, traditional industries & startups...
