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* Editor’s
Comment – Making the best of what you have got
* Knexus
News
New
Members
Knexus
Upcoming Initiatives and
Collaborative
Sessions
Data Protection Crisis Management
Workshop
Business Innovation & Technology
eCommerce – The Measurement Challenge
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the forthcoming initiatives
and
collaborative sessions schedule
* Knexus
Community Update
eProcurement
Feedback
* Knexus
Polls
Business
Travel – Have your Say
* Tell
Your Colleagues about the benefits of Knexus
* What
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Editor’s
Comment – Making the best of what you have got
Set against the backdrop of a difficult economic climate for
many of our member companies, internal teams have been slimmed
down and budgets tightly held. And yet companies are being expected
to achieve more than ever before because of a fiercely competitive
marketplace. We are charged with doing more business than ever
before but with less resources.
Therefore senior executives are having to work smarter and recognise
what the levers are, that you can pull to your advantage. One
of the emerging themes is around business networking, particularly
in a peer to peer environment.
Why? If companies are talking to non-competitive organisations,
you have the knowledge of leveraging your business experience
to create a new currency that you can use to help achieve your
business objectives. You can trade with other senior executives
rather than use hard cash and avoid the expense of using consultancies
and third party experts. As one of our members said, after he
attended Knexus’ collaborative session on eProcurement: "How
much would XXXX [One of the big consultancies] charge you to try
and generate this kind of value we had today?"
We know you appreciate the potential of peer-to-peer collaboration
that is why you are a member of Knexus. Did you know that over the
past three months through Knexus Knections, we have facilitated
10 one-to-one Knections involving 11 different companies? Knexus
members using Knections are leveraging their Community to work smarter.
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YOUR
SAY>>
Tell me what you think will happen to your financial budgets over
the next six months. Do you think that you will hold onto your present
budget or are you going to be expected to reduce it?
KNEXUS
KNECTIONS >>
If you would like to be part of the
Community, contact Graeme Foux, Chairman, directly about an opportunity
to learn from your peers – via email
or call +44 (0) 207 631 4151
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New Members
Lloyds TSB joins Knexus
Knexus continues to expand its membership
with Lloyds TSB the latest company to join our Community. Our
new members have a particular interest in B2B marketplaces and
are actively looking forward to participating in forthcoming initiatives.
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To introduce yourself
to Lloyds TSB, please contact us directly
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INITIATIVE:
DPEPS
(Data Protection, Ethics, Privacy and Security)
Data
Protection Crisis Management Workshop
Collaborative Session – 1 July 2003
Are you ready for a data protection crisis?
If it happens to your company will you know what to do and what
are the risks of getting it wrong?
Following on the success of our DPEPS
(Data Protection Ethics Privacy and Security) collaborative session
on Email Monitoring, we are running a Data Protection Crisis Management
workshop that will help participants work through their response
to a crisis involving the protection of employee information.
This will be achieved using a real-life
business crisis scenario that will test even the best of crisis
management planners. Knexus members from BP, AXA PPP and Prudential
will be on hand to lead the workshop activities. The workshop
will be held at BP’s London office.
Don’t let your company be the one that is caught out !!
We have prepared a ThoughtPiece showing our members the issues
to be aware of and written a FactFinder, to access links to targeted
sources of information.
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Host and case study from
REGISTER>>
1 July 2003
Members
only
by invitation
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INITIATIVE:
Business
Innovation & Technology
Identifying
and benefiting from new technology related business opportunities
Collaborative Session – 9 July 2003
The
face-to-face summit looks at the business issues relating to the
following three areas:
• Digital TV
• Collaboration
• eHealth
Knexus members from Prudential, Marsh and Novartis will share their
experience and ideas on how to extract business value from digital
TV, effectively implement collaborative solutions and deliver mission
critical information to mobile devices.
This is an all day session which also includes an open, roundtable
discussion on how to
effectively identify and validate the strategic business potential
of new technologies, working in close co-operation between marketing,
strategy and IT.
A ThoughtPiece and Fact Finder will be available to members next
week.
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Case Studies from
REGISTER>>
Business Innovation &
Technology-
9 July 2003
Members
only
by invitation
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And a Date for
your Calendar
eCommerce – The Measurement
Challenge
Collaborative
Session – 18 September 2003
Do
you want to know how well your website is doing? Knexus is holding
a face-to-face roundtable elevator for members to discuss and
benchmark how companies are assessing and analysing the contribution
of online activities to their overall business.
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Life will present a case study of how it measures its eCommerce
activities and the challenges it faces.
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Host and case study
from
REGISTER>>
18 Sept 2003
Members
only
by invitation
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Knexus
Community Update
eProcurement – Feedback
Last month Knexus held a very
successful collaborative session on eProcurement, which included
a case study by Johnson Matthey on how it is approaching eProcurement
and the issues and challenges it faces. Any member wanting a copy
of Johnson Matthey’s presentation can find it on the Knexus portal,
together with a summary of the key ideas, tips and findings from
the participants.
For example, one of the biggest eProcurement issues delegates identified
and discussed, is getting buy-in from suppliers and their catalogues
online.
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OUTPUT >>
Key outputs and presentations from this
collaborative session are available to members
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Knexus
Polls
Thank you to all our members that have been voting on our polls.
Our most recent polls show that:
* 80 per cent of Knexus members believe that the
email laws are
hindering their business
* 57 per cent of Knexus members claim that cost
cutting and
efficiency is the greatest importance
for an eBusiness
system
* 50 per cent of Knexus members have not changed
their CRM system
in the past six months
As the summer approaches, we want your input into business travel.
Currently many companies have a ban on travel but this is expected
to change after the summer. Let us know whether you think it will
be easier to travel in the autumn. What are your plans for business
travel in the autumn?
* International
* European
* Same as before
* Not planning on travelling at all
VOTE ON
OUR WEBSITE >>
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HAVE
YOUR SAY>>
On issues you are facing by clicking
on the poll now
We are currently running polls on online sales and marketing, as
well as project management.
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Tell your colleagues about
the benefits of Knexus
There is now a simple information pack available on our Community,
its activities and benefits of membership. The more like-minded
members we attract from peer group companies, the richer the Community
becomes, so please feel free to download this information and
send it to a colleague or associate.
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