B2B Data Integration and Transformation Blog

My highschool son plays several sports which all require a large amount of team work.  I often find it crazy the amount of time these teams put into practices, scrimmages, and games.  But, without these, they aren’t getting better or growing as a unit.  Teams require each person to do their job to be successful as a whole.  They win together and lose together.  In sports and life teamwork equates to work done by an entire team - not if only a few members are carrying the load.  

I guess you are wondering what this has to do with EDI and business integration?

This month, Remedi Electronic Commerce Group is celebrating 20 years!  As in any anniversary, it is fun to look back to see what movies and TV shows were popular, and how much gas prices were ($1.09/gallon by the way).  I took a look back to 1994 to find "new emerging technologies" from 20 years ago and a funny YouTube infomercial video called “High-Tech Office”.

The REMEDI team would like to wish everyone a fun and safe 4th!  We hope you will get to enjoy time with your friends and family.  While we are all preparing to celebrate our Nation's independence, our team is also preparing for our 20th Anniversary.  So this week, I thought I'd take a brief look back at our journey and 1994...the year our organization was founded:

The weather looks great for this weekend, so my wife Amy and I will ‘slip the surly bonds of earth’ in a small private airplane for a summer holiday visit with family a few hundred miles to our south.   And though we will arrive at the same destination, at the same time, in the same aircraft, if you ask each of us about our trip you will find we’ve taken two very different journeys to get there.

A final blog in a series of Lean articles includes specific integration improvement concepts that can be applied to the 8 traditional wastes.

You may or may not recall that the series started with Good...the Enemy of Best! How Can Lean Be Applied To Data Integration?, which introduced the premise of applying Lean to integration.  This was followed by Observations of Lean, Where Do You Get Your Ideas?, which was a light piece about brainstorming for process improvement ideas.

Now for some specific examples for integration wastes and opportunities for improvement.