http://blogs.gxs.com/brodya Making Sense of IT and B2B Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:08:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently had the privilege and honor of training 12 incredibly bright, witty and motivated women entrepreneurs from South Africa on the fine art of developing a positioning statement and elevator speech for their high tech companies and incubators.  For those of you who have ever experienced this exercise, you'll ... http://blogs.gxs.com/brodya/2008/04/15/my-new-brus-from-south-africa/ Not that I want to share the “goings-on” of my personal life through a blog, but I thought my recent experience in the operating room (OR) was just a classic case of why B2B ecommerce is critical especially in the medical field dealing with life and death situations.  OK, maybe not ... http://blogs.gxs.com/brodya/2008/03/24/words-you-dont-want-to-hear-on-the-operating-tablethe-part-hasnt-arrived-yet/ In business, sports and life you will always be successful  if you choose to take the “high” road.  In real life that means, “do the right thing and don’t sink to low behavior even if your enemies do”.  Now, I’m not going to get into detail because I am not ... http://blogs.gxs.com/brodya/2008/02/04/take-the-hy-road-to-b2b-integration/ A whole lot, that’s for sure.  They both enable a fast, easy, secure and reliable way to electronically connect with a community of people you do business with – secure and reliable being the operative words. For over a year, I’ve been getting these LinkedIn invitations from people I know and  ... http://blogs.gxs.com/brodya/2008/01/08/what-do-linkedin-and-b2b-ecommerce-have-in-common/ Thanks to Wikipedia, the definition of FIFO is, “an acronym for First In, First Out, which describes the principle of a queue processing technique by ordering process by first-come, first-served (FCFS) behavior: what comes in first is handled first, what comes in next waits until the first is finished, etc.”  ... http://blogs.gxs.com/brodya/2007/12/21/from-fifi-to-gigo-not-be-confused-with-geico/ For those of us that have been in the IT industry for a really long time (you decide what’s defined as a long time because I am not going to date myself), there’s one thing that we tech people always seem to forget (maybe due to short term memory loss) ... http://blogs.gxs.com/brodya/2007/12/18/it-and-its-short-term-memory/