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[Podcast] What If? So What? Episode 4: What if Every Brand Went Direct to Consumer?

Perficient

podcast , we interview Jon Bostock, best-selling author, innovator, co-founder and CEO of Truman’s and learn how brands that innovate will win in a rapidly changing digital-first economy. Kim Williams-Czopek is a Director of Digital Strategy at Perficient. The Future Is Digital. Meet the Hosts.

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How Supplier Focus Propels AP Innovation

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Innovation in the accounts payable (AP) space continues to expand, with FinTechs looking to capture their piece of a growing market driven by businesses’ desire to digitize their operations. Below, PYMNTS rounds up the latest examples of how AP innovators pull suppliers’ accounts receivable processes into the fold.

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So What? Putting Perficient’s Now/New/Next to Work

Perficient

Or should we go the other way and invest in a risky but innovative direction? Innovating. Innovating experiences are the ones nobody is doing. Innovations – particularly disruptive innovations – get a lot of attention because they are typically monumentally heroic tales or tragically disastrous lessons.

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CellPoint Mobile Rebrands As CellPoint Digital To Power Travel Payments

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CellPoint Mobile, which specializes in digital commerce and payment solutions for airlines and travel companies, today rebranded as CellPoint Digital with a new website and product offerings, the company said in a press release on Tuesday (Sept. We started out with a radical, mobile-first solution.

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FinTechs Prove Their Value During Pandemic

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Bakers open bakeries because they like to bake — they don’t like to do accounts receivables and accounts payable and balance their books,” he said. Innovation Vs. Incumbency. Innovation is a distraction and costs money, so they let the startups figure it out on somebody else’s dime. Incumbents do what they do.

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AEVI CEO: 2018 Was The Year Of Changing

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It is a process that is going to take two to three years to play out, and once it does, it likely will set us up for a new wave of even greater innovation. Now it is time to turn our backs on proprietary payment device lock-in that stifles innovation and inhibits the ability of acquirers and merchants to shape their own digital strategies.

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Why Digital’s 3.0 Shift May Take Longer Than We Think

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And you better do it right now, they add, since digital shifts wait for no one. Innovators with better tech will appear and — literally overnight — snatch your customers out of your calcified incumbent arms and build scale, they say. For those companies, making the quantum leap to digital is, literally, a bridge too far.