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Tag Archives: Vendor Relationship Management
NewsGang talks data portability. Next up: Service Portability.
Excellent chat today by Steve Gillmor, Chris Saad, Mary Hodder, Karoli Kuns, Robert W. Anderson, Matt Terenzio, and Bruce Lerner about data portability. They get to the nitty gritty about data portability, licensing, and social networks. Perhaps the best Gang … Continue reading
Pricing for Charities: Pay-What-You-Want and VRM
Charitable giving has an intriguing relationship with rational pricing theories. The supply of charitable products is essentially inexhaustible. Price of a charitable gift is not based on supply and demand, with curves meeting at an efficient clearing price. And yet, … Continue reading
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Tagged charities, Dean Karlan, John List, Nine Inch Nails, Pay-What-You-Want, project VRM, Radiohead, Vendor Relationship Management, VRM
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Pricing, Markets, and Demand, VRM style
Economists often talk of markets as price discovery mechanisms, and the freer the market, the more efficiently those prices can be discovered. In fact, in the absence of all transaction costs, free markets assure the efficient allocation of resources, regardless … Continue reading
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Tagged coase, demand, eventful.com, markets, pricing, Vendor Relationship Management, VRM
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The VRM Vector
The core of VRM, Vendor Relationship Management, is the vector of activity. Remember vectors? Vectors are multi-dimensional, scalars one dimensional. In high school they explained it by saying velocity is a vector, it contains both the direction of travel and … Continue reading
VRM & Microformats
Colin Henderson at BankWatch writes: I had considered microformats might be a method of managing these interactions. Could the consumer requirement I have outlined be brokered by a Microformat? That’s the open question I have. I agree. Microformats should definitely … Continue reading
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Tagged microformats, Vendor Relationship Management, VRM
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Shopatron redefines Vendor Relationships
Ed Stevens of Shopatron is re-intermediating retailers into the online sales process. Re-intermediation? It seems to go against the grain of what the Internet means to markets. Distributors. Retailers. Middlemen. All these folks were supposed to be disintermediated, returning the … Continue reading
Google Advocates VRM for medical data
Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped shares this quote from Google’s Vice President Adam Bosworth [excerpted from original transcript]: So what can be done? We should start at the beginning. Let’s put the patients in charge of their health and medical … Continue reading
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Tagged Vendor Relationship Management, VRM
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The ‘R’ in VRM
Jeremie recently asked “What does the R mean in VRM?” The question I ask myself about VRM though is what does the Relationship mean? Many of the situations that have been proposed for VRM to play a role are Vendor … Continue reading
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Tagged CRM, Customer Relationship Management, Vendor Relationship Management, VRM
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VRM: Make a gesture, create a market.
What do you get when you turn proprietary data silos inside out? Users in control. Doc Searls has been advocating VRM for a while (here too). What’s nice about his thinking — in addition to the open source/open standards approach … Continue reading
Posted in Identity, Search, Vendor Relationship Management
Tagged personal RFP, Vendor Relationship Management, VRM
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