The Challenge: Master Data Management Master Data Management (MDM) is often seen as a massive challenge. Today’s blog article may make you think think that MDM is actually not so complex. Referential Matching is the...
Knowledge Sharing; Capacity Building How will the future of Customs administrations look like in a few years? Which data and technologies can Customs deploy, and how? This week I spent a day at the World Customs Organization...
The Proliferation Of Technology A few of my previous blogs discuss the proliferation of technology, and the increasing amount of insights that technology companies generate about technology users. The underlying goal is to tailor...
Regulation’s Role In Technology Adoption Has cross-border eCommerce VAT tax evasion reached such a point, that it is now eCommerce time to get regulated? Many readers may be familiar with Gartner Group’s Hype Cycle, providing...
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...
