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.
Showing posts with label productivity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label productivity. Show all posts
Monday, August 27, 2007
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Productivity in EU
Spent a long weekend in Sicily and had time to read some interesting stuff. Some quotes:
On European growth
" The pace of expansion is set to fall back this year and next to little over 2 percent - too modest to prevent a further widening of the gap in GDP per head between the EU and the United States."
Simon Tilford
Center of European Reform
My comment: too many doing low value (low pay) work
" Our growth rate is now mostly limited by our human resources capability"
Klaus Kleinfeld
CEO, Siemens
My comment: too many tied down with routine tasks
Kickstarting e-invoicing is of course only one step - but as we know not demanding large investments and possible to launch fast with the right will and skill. The target should be to get one common standard at least for the corporate mass market - the part of e-invoicing that can benefit from ready e-banking and payments infrastructure. This is well in keeping with global trends:
"We genuinly believe that radical sharing is a win-win for everyone. Expanding markets create new opportunities."
Tim Bray
"Standards is another area where openness is gaining momentum. In today´s complex and fast-moving economy the economic deficiences and liabilities caused by lack of standardization surface faster and they are more jarring and consequential than in the past."
Don Tapscott
Spent a long weekend in Sicily and had time to read some interesting stuff. Some quotes:
On European growth
" The pace of expansion is set to fall back this year and next to little over 2 percent - too modest to prevent a further widening of the gap in GDP per head between the EU and the United States."
Simon Tilford
Center of European Reform
My comment: too many doing low value (low pay) work
" Our growth rate is now mostly limited by our human resources capability"
Klaus Kleinfeld
CEO, Siemens
My comment: too many tied down with routine tasks
Kickstarting e-invoicing is of course only one step - but as we know not demanding large investments and possible to launch fast with the right will and skill. The target should be to get one common standard at least for the corporate mass market - the part of e-invoicing that can benefit from ready e-banking and payments infrastructure. This is well in keeping with global trends:
"We genuinly believe that radical sharing is a win-win for everyone. Expanding markets create new opportunities."
Tim Bray
"Standards is another area where openness is gaining momentum. In today´s complex and fast-moving economy the economic deficiences and liabilities caused by lack of standardization surface faster and they are more jarring and consequential than in the past."
Don Tapscott
Sunday, December 17, 2006
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/
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