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P2P,
Peer to Peer, B2B, Collaborative Commerce
Annual Council of Logistics Management
conference (Fall 2001) proceedings:
Peer-to-Peer based CPFR Case Study, posted May 2002
Annual Council of Logistics Management
conference (Fall 2001) proceedings: n-Tier
CPFR, posted May 2002
January 2002: Defining
where Business-to-Business and Peer-to-Peer Computing meet. My new Book (a
grandiose plan for sure) is here! Well, parts are. I will post
the chapters here with updates as I add to them. Please send
feedback to me as that is the
way we all learn most. These chapters are zipped up PowerPoint, with
Notes. Below this
section is the paper I wrote back in January 2001 that represents the
formative concepts at that time. Where I list
my other papers and articles,
you can see the original PowerPoint I published in March 2001. This
new "book" is an updated and expanded version. Enjoy!
Convergence
of P2P and B2B: New Economy Business Models
Peer-to-Peer computing has revolutionized the way files are shared
between consumers - primarily for the music industry. P2P is yet
to strike in the B2B space, but it is coming. Check out these
interesting sites for some background reading. And see here my
Brief for December 2000 that highlights the different business
models that exist in most B2B formats.
If you wanted to read up on what I said about "the convergence of P2P and
B2B back in January 2001, read the White Paper here!
See some of my other papers
and articles
here.
They include:
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Return on Relationship
versus ROI
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Global Commerce Initiative (GCI)
VICS
CPFR Committee n-Tier
Report Fall 2001
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The Dating Game: Sex,
Liquidity, and the New Economy
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The Rise and Fall of the
Trading Exchange
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The End of E.R.P. as we know
it
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Delboy in the Press and News:
See here
older press
Delboy on
Fat Butterfly (B2B Chat
Forum)
Other excellent B2B/P2P,
or Interesting News
Articles:
See here
older stories for 2001
Books on Business I would buy
My
current Top books are:
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Peer-to-Peer: Collaboration and
Sharing over the Internet, by Bo Leuf. After reading the
Barkai book, this was not as good. Lots of technical details of
some fewer vendors, and a lot less of how P2P will impact business.
Some hints, but less actual suggestions or examples. 6/10
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Peer-to-Peer
Computing: Technologies for Sharing and Collaborating on the Net,
by David Barkai, Intel. The best P2P book I have read so far and though
I have 5 under my belt I have another 5 to go! Burkai includes a
history, and very much update exposition on what defines P2P. He
even goes as far as I did back in 2000 with "shared content, shred
resources, and shared processes" which is the most leading edge thinking
here as it opens up access to B2B. Detailed review of vendors are
included those these change so fast and are not as useful as the amount
of coverage might suggest. Overall a good read - one to lead with.
8-10.
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Why people buy things they don't
need, by Pamela Danziger. Interesting commentary and analysis of
the discretionary nature of consumer purchases. Most readers will
"see themselves" in this book; mostly straight forward analysis of the
"why" people by rather than the "what" or "where". Good breakdown by
product category in the latter half; and some good advise for brand
managers and marketers.
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Emergence: The Connected
lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software,
by Steven Johnson, 2001.
A delightful must-have!
If you are into:
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complexity theory,
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self organizing systems, or
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massively distributed
systems versus centralized,
(any everyone who is in the
supply chain is, and probably does not know it) then this book is a
lovely, fresh, easy to read overview of how all these ideas come together.
Or if you like PC games
SimCity more than Civilization, or Black and White more than Sacrifice,
then you are into Emergence and never even knew it!
How is it that ants, who
have command organization, can persist and "learn" from generation to
generation? Local rules lead to global structures - but a structure
that you wouldn't necessarily predict from the rules. New ideas seem
to suggest that ants have a low level, local rules that, taken on a
massive scale, can be used to manage a huge organization. This book
takes weaves a lovely spell through DNA, how cities (self) evolve, through
to how the cosmos operates. And then you have to stop and think
about the value chain: it is self-organizing; it persists; it "learns"
even when agents come and go (read go bust or form) and so on....
Get my drift? 10 out of 10!
- Scuttle You
Ships Before Advancing, by Richard Luecke, Oxford University
Press, 1994. Se my thoughts on the
concept!
- the eMarketplace Strategies for
Success in B2B eCommerce, by Warren D. Raisch, McGrawHill,
2001
Other books in my
library including my favorite P2P books!
My Site of the
Month:
An Avatars paradise -
become a new you, now!
Places I visited before:
My
Favorite Links
Help yourself to my
most favored links.
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What's
Hot - Peer to Peer
About the only
things that count on the planet today are:
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Microsoft's Xbox (it
will take over the den, living room - and tie into Interactive TV
(order the jacket Kevin Costner is wearing from your remote; it
arrives the next day), banking (debit that charge for the jacket
directly; synchronize your check book and wallet from your sitting
room), and remote utility communication (when coming home late,
you will phone the cooker and delay the automatic timer)
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Microsoft Enterprise
Applications (it will take over the SAP world in time...all in
good time). It will acquire all the important elements
needed to expand MS-Great Plains in order to prepare for a
unification footprint, that will duplicate SAP and then extend
beyond SAP
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Web Services and P2P
unite. Web Services are how services and applications and
find each other as passing ships in the night. They won't
know where to look but they will connect seamlessly, via XML.
Web Services will be the P2P for the Enterprise Server
"P2P is going to be
used very broadly, but by itself, it's not going to create new
companies. ...[T]he companies that will become successful are
those that solve a problem." Michael
Tanne of XDegrees.
Hot Article in support of P2P:
Supply Chain
Collaboration: Close Encounters of the Best Kind Mar 26
"includes reference to P2P and the "Napsterization of B2B"
See all these other
B2B/P2P articles. Some
interesting P2P resources:
See a whole bunch more P2P and other
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Book
of the Month
CPFR
You can order it from my
favorite store, of course:
| Politics
Our Cheri Blair claims no wrong doing by hiring a crook to negotiate
a deal for her to buy an apartment! Really - I knew nothing
about it, she says. My foot! He said publicly that he
never hid is identity - and so she must have known that we was,
shall we say, "grey" but she thought she could get a good deal.
And the sad thing about the whole deal is that Downing Street
publicly denied there was any ink between the two - until she
admitted it. Who is lying to who here?
Our Tony
seems more Tory than the Tory's! I commend his 100 per cent
support and involvement in the US initiatives. Interestingly,
British Foreign Policy is a fascinating game of risk. Britain
is only successful in that it has a foot in each camp (from an
economics viewpoint) in the US and Europe. British Foreign
Policy has to remain focused on ensuring that Britain remains split
between the two; it is that duality that ensures Britain will
attract the lions share of foreign direct investment in Europe.
It has to exhibit the long-term willingness to become more European,
and yet it has to nurture whatever "special relationship" it has
with is oldest of natural neighbors. If Britain slips up and
moves close to one of the other, it will lose ground in the economic
game being played out. But that is the trick to politics - how
to look like one thing and yet focus on another.
My favourite Press
Line: "It has been suggested that Mr Blair, like his
grandfather Jimmy Lynton, is essentially an actor. Every actor needs
a script, and yesterday, Mr Blair lost his favourite
scriptwriter."
So how far would you go? If you chart Tony Blair's speeches to
notable meetings in the UK in the year before his child's
birth, you would have noticed a change in the message.
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Books
I would not Buy
Power Play - The
Beginning of the Endgame in Net Markets,
by A.T.Kearney consultants Mike Moriarty and Bruce Klassen. This is my
Amazon review: I sought this book, so excited! With "dating game" and
"P2P" in the contents, I was convinced this would be "the one" that would
step outside the mold and challenge the future of B2B. But alas I was
disappointed. The book is reasonable, but full of inconsistencies. It
harps on about the true value of new business processes, and yet all the
"hard examples and research" focus on RPF processes, how Ariba and
Commerce One and i2 would take over the world. Look what happened to
Ariba and C1! E-Procurement is the LOW HANGING FRUIT GUYS. The book
suggests that centralizing net markets will dominate the planet, but
neatly ignores that fact the e-business leaders are not collaborating for
mutual gain (the government would have for you for that) but they are
colluding! They talk about "value chains" as one big happy family and that
"competitive practices" are being re-written - then fail to explain what
that means. I would stick with the B2b books by Sculley and Woods for
now; until a real forward looking book gets out. A.T. Kearney needs to
look beyond the lovey-dovey hand shakes of the WWRE and ask what those
companies are really doing on their private extranets! This is like the
Cold War – where there are visible moves and invisible modes; and the real
war is yet to be played out; and it will not be played on the visible
stage!
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