The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

Given the new opportunities the new free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea provide small and midsize companies, you might want to consider this question: Does your current IT software  have the right stuff to help you trade on a global scale? (more…)

 Jump-starting the world economy will be a central topic of discussion among world leaders meeting for the next few days at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Many of the business leaders in Davos lead large global companies. However, you cannot talk about growth, jobs, and innovation without talking about small (more…)

How technology can create entrepreneurs at the bottom of the economic pile

Two completely unrelated facts caught my attention the other day. One,  there are about 4 Billion people on the planet who lie squarely at the bottom of the economic pyramid, eking out a marginal existence on about US$2-3 per day, give or take. Two, there are over 825 Million mobile phone subscribers in India and poor rural subscribers have them just as much as their urban richer counterparts. On the face of it, there is little to connect these 2 disparate facts. But if (more…)

Ever since I heard a (bootlegged) cassette recording of Casey Kasem’s “American Top 40” as a teen growing up in India several decades ago , the notion of the counting down the most wonderful songs or listing the best attributes about a particular topic has stayed with me. So, when our corporate strategy and brand marketing teams recently released the “Top 10 reasons why customers buy SAP,” it was obvious that we needed something similar – a document that counts out why small businesses and midsize companies (SMEs) buy SAP.

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