2006-12-31: Data as Staple

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1. Ability to spread the catalog into multiple places. Pull data from multiple points. (Grocery shop analogy - close to home delivery system - has the "staples"

Staple: Principal raw material or commodity (i.e. flour, rice, corn) in steady demand.

Analogy:

Coke machines in building because drinks are in steady demand

Car dealership - still commodity, but you don't need as many. Car dealerships cluster together. Use of multi-channels (radio, TV, newspaper)

2. Ability to feed info into system

Analogy:

Pre-Home Depot - Many pieces for one home project distributed (hardware store, paint store, ...) - not so many things prefabricated needed carpenter.

Home Depot - semi-processed (pre-fabricated), user-finished

Value network -

Facilitate, combine early part of the value chain, which will:

• Improve qualtity of indoemation
  • save resources , no need to redo
• Improve quality
  • leave more time to the experience analysts to to anlyze
  • lower the entry threshold, i.e enrich and democratize analysis