E-commerce guide: Word order
13 September 2012
The explosion of interest in e-commerce over the past 18 months has surprised even the most optimistic of analysts. But, asks Malcolm Wheatley, how does it differ from the electronic data interchange model of old?
‘When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more, nor less,” Humpty-Dumpty rebuked Alice, in Lewis Carroll’s Alice Through the Looking Glass. Today, that same flexibility of meaning summarises the state of e-procurement. The phrase is on everyone’s lips, but no two individuals can agree what e-procurement actually means.
But acceptance...