The Brief – March 2019

Reimagining Regulations: Ideas from a Non – Policy-Wonk — Part Two

Innovations from other disciplines may reduce burdens, increase effectiveness of regulations

By Bill McBeath

Thursday, March 28, 2019

Creating cost-effective, gaming-resistant, outcome-achieving regulations is really hard to do. Outside-of-the-box approaches may be our best hope to solving many of the issues. [ Read: Reimagining Regulations: Ideas from a Non-Policy-Wonk — Part Two ]

FORGET THOSE FUNNY GLASSES

Augmented Reality is reality for the supply chain. [ Read: FORGET THOSE FUNNY GLASSES ]

Growing the Network Effect Beyond T&E

SAP Concur’s Big Idea for a New Network, and Other Highlights from Fusion 2019

SAP Concur recently launched SAP Business Exchange. The vision is bold: to provide an SMB community—across all of SAP and beyond to non-SAP customers—that aggregates purchasing power, provides peer benchmarking, facilitates collaboration, and promotes corporate responsibility. Also, at Fusion, we heard about SAP Concur’s continuing progress towards the expense report that writes itself, their use of AI/ML, and other innovations enabling SAP Concur’s clients to simultaneously achieve compliance and employee satisfaction in T&E processes. [ Read: Growing the Network Effect Beyond T&E ]

Ocean Just Got a Little Easier — Maybe — or a Bit Crazier?

A few acquisitions of note. [ Read: Ocean Just Got a Little Easier — Maybe — or a Bit Crazier? ]