marketplace

Digital Supply Chain

by Penny Power on May 7, 2013 · 0 comments

Side view of a young boy using laptop isolated on white backgrouRecently I made a pretty ground breaking decision which was a moment of realisation for me. I decided that I couldn’t do business with suppliers or colleagues, collaborate or belong to Discussion Groups unless the people I was connecting with we’re digitally savvy and could respond to email, Calendar Invitations and open documents fast. Of course, I have to accept that clients are not digitally savvy at all times, that is my marketplace.

My life now leads me into many exciting projects to help the digital economy, to grow the skills within the digital supply chain between companies and people. My love is Community building and helping people to become great Digital Citizens and sometime Great Digital LeadORS. I do this through the The Digital Business Campaign www.digitalbusinessbritain.com wotking with Digital Youth Academy, Frontier and leadORS. [click to continue…]

open networking 2What exactly is a networking strategy and why do you need one? Why can’t you just show up to networking events and win bucket-loads of business?

A business networking strategy is essentially a marketing plan for your networking efforts. Like any good marketing plan it describes who you want to meet, how you’re going to meet them, how you’re going to help them and what you’re going to say/do when you get in front of them. [click to continue…]

I have written this blog to spark some thoughts around the challenges many businesses are facing now around innovation. Everywhere I go the word I now hear is ‘Innovate’. Not surprising really, we all know that if we don’t adapt and advance our businesses we will not survive. I had a great chat with my son this week about how weird it is to me that the Twix chocolate bar is the same as it has been since it was created in 1967, can you imagine the joy of creating something that never needed to change! Now, I feel the pressure of learning and adapting everyday, in the connected, global marketed place, we cannot stand still. [click to continue…]