Why is it so slow? Why is it so expensive?

I’m working with operations and IT staff on an EDI project. Hauling through the standards, I experienced a flash back to the late 80’s and my first EDI implementation. Back then, IT projects moved at a snail’s pace by comparison, and I remember being grateful for a standards body to produce a standardized set of transactions that all industries could use. My expectations are much different now – development should be fast; it should be collaborative; existing standards and protocols should be readily available at no cost to encourage everyone to use them. It’s such a disappointment to see that the only changes have been for the worse.

And yet, I see more of a need for greater speed and collaboration and open standards as technology moves to the mobile platform. Mobile technology development isn’t just about the latest cool phone app… thinking differently about the way we develop collaborative interfaces is absolutely necessary for supply chains to reinvent themselves for the global market of the 21st century.