Surviving the Digital Tsunami

10 reasons why value based eCommerce could change your future

Marco Ryan — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:39:32 +0000

In my last post I talked about how transactional eCommerce was about to be replaced by value based eCommerce. Whilst the inherent message was about one of change and one of dealing with the disruption, the potential for Value based eCommerce to define the corporate landscape is significant. And that means your future and my future will be subject to change. So here are the 10 reasons, in no particular order, why I think value based eCommerce could change your future. If you want to know how to cope with what all that this might mean, then you are going to have to wait until next week

The death of Online transactional ecommerce – time for a new ecommerce model?

Marco Ryan — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:06:12 +0000

So here’s an idea. Transactional-based ecommerce is dead. Well maybe not dead, but at least about to become past tense. You know, the type of ecommerce that organisations have spent years and millions of dollars fine-tuning, where you effectively search, find and buy a product in an online store. Sure over the last few years increasingly sophisticated and personalised user experience have helped to make it easy for us as customers and have helped corporations to monetise their investment, but I believe those types of benefits will be increasingly difficult to find as a new ecommerce model becomes pervasive.

Is Google making Waves?

Marco Ryan — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:02:21 +0000

Google recent beta launch of Google Wave has created its own wave of opinion, discussion and excitement. A truly innovative product that has the potential to disrupt our thinking and behaviour around communication, collaboration and community.

What is Google Wave?
Wave is not just a new product or new service, but a fundamental new way of working....

3 simple phrases that can step change online business results

Marco Ryan — Sun, 17 May 2009 14:05:26 +0000

Whilst in Singapore this week, I met with Redpill Communications - a Singapore based marketing strategy and customer insight consultancy. They shared a great presentation on how 3 simple customer expectations are fundamentally undermining existing business models and strategies. The 3 phrases were: “Everything is free”, “Shared Interests” and “Less is more”. Individually these are easy to dismiss as being impractical, but when combined they become compelling, and are the key behaviours that are driving the under 27’s (the Gen Y demographic) ways of working. Together they are highly disruptive, yet they also provide significant opportunities for companies to adapt their way of thinking, their value propositions and their behaviours.

How to create eCommerce leadership in B2B Distribution

Marco Ryan — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:16:52 +0000

Endeca - the leading provider of Search and Information discovery - hosted as Executive dinner in Chicago this week for the leading Senior Executives in Manufacturing, Distribution and Retail that I was very honoured to a be asked to and also to say a few words about my global perspective on eCommerce strategies for distribution. A number of themes surfaced form the various informal discussions: Companies are accelerating their multi-channel strategy ruthlessly on web investments; Customer Experience; Competitive Advantage and Strategy; Global markets are creating new challenges; Most non eCommerce CXOs are still uncomfortable with the web.

Why Information visibility is the key ingredient of competitive advantage

Marco Ryan — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:35:58 +0000

Paul Sonderegger from Endeca - a leading provider of search applications - and Michael Porter - the Harvard professor of Management Strategy have been busy together. They recently got 70 senior execs together to explore what drives competitive advantage and what impact would there be on your corporate strategy if individuals had all the information they needed - in the way that they wanted - for every decision they had to make.

Innovation, Communication and High Performance – 3 reasons why Premier Farnell outclass the competition

Marco Ryan — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:36:08 +0000

Premier Farnell's use of Enteprise 2.0 technology to reduce their carbon footprint, join 70 senior managers together for a 3 day conference and have their external speaker - Don Sull - collaborate virtually, is a sign of how quickly this FTSE 250 company is pulling apart from its competitors.

5 Keys to change agility and emerging the recession a winner

Marco Ryan — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:54:13 +0000

During a recent workshop with Don Sull - the Leading Management Science Professor - we were discussing the key factors that would lead to surviving the recession, emerging stronger, fitter and more competitive. The discussion was wide ranging but here are the 5 factors that I thought were most helpful:Strategy, Leadership, Focus on the Web, Enterpise, 2.0 and Prioritisation.

Killer Blog Tip - Dynamic Tag clouding for Squarespace

Marco Ryan — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:36:52 +0000

This is a tutorial for people using Squarespace as their blogging platform. Bloggers on other platforms may well be able to use the steps below, but clearly some of the terms are specific to Squarespace users.

Status Field is the new Search box and other Mobile trends for FY09

Marco Ryan — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:48:01 +0000

I was shown some really insightful mobile trends by Christian Lindholm & team at Fjord Design recently. Not only do they produce the information ia powerful, graphical manner, but you can tell there is some real insight behind the research. Most of what they say is not new news. What is new though is the certainty with which this could impact organisations in the coming months – and probably without them realising it. This is what I refer to as disruptive horizon and is the key theme behind the current book that I am writing, “Surviving the Digital Tsunami”.