To Real Time Economy with e-invoicing

Teemu Arina was kind enough to record my presentation. May make more sense once I get the presentation enclosed - pls ask for it in the meantime.

You can find the recording here.

Helsinki Manifesto for EU

Anybody happy with productivity development in Europe? Hardly. For those who think we need some real action NOW the Helsinki Manifesto is pointing to some very central issues. Pan-European e-invoicing - implemented country-by-country but with common SEPA-standards is the fastest, easiest and biggest one. It is of course the enterprises and taxpayers who gain most (EACT estimate in excess of 200bn€) so now when this is manifested they should demand this service from those who can supply it - for 17 million micro and small enterprises it is the banks..

http://www.tietoyhteiskuntaohjelma.fi/ajankohtaista/events/en_GB/1147177824150/

The two paths towards a real time economy

There are two parallel main roads leading to the endgoal - real time economy. The first one has been dealt with here already to some extent - the end user centric and networking approach to digital services - leading to fast real uptake of self services at lowest cost.

The other road is automation - machine to maching initiated transactions. This is best served by finding widely used standards. The Single European Payment Area is a very suitable opportunity to go for standards both in remitting payment order files to banks or when using same tools for remitting invoice material.

What should be done early on is to establish the benchmarking - what service in what company or what country has the highest (i) selfservicedegree - % of all, (ii)machine2machine degree - % of all and finally highest degree of real time completion - % of all.