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...
U.S. Trade Wars News reports about evolving trade wars are not uncommon recently. Quite a change of direction, given that the preceding years were characterized by efforts to implement Free Trade Agreements. News outlets report...
Throughout the years numerous Customs agencies have consulted me about the usage of data, analytics and other advanced technologies for risk management purposes. This blog addresses the potential for these agencies in embedding...
People often ask me whether data quality or data quantity is a bigger problem. I therefore decided to write a blog post on this topic. From Lack Of Information To Information Explosion What Changed? The term ‘information...
Problem Statement: Data Quality in Global Trade Data quality is the Achilles heel of international supply chains. Is Blockchain the solution? Research by HMRC (UK Customs) and Dutch Customs revealed that “many of the systems...
