From the Abstract:
Wal-Mart is an exceptional company. As professor Strassmann [Stra06] says, "Mal-Mart is a an information system integrator. Not a merchandising company. They are just selling goods as a by-product. Fundamentally when you look at the value added by Wal-Mart, it is knowledge assets and how they are able to establish a global information network."
Wal-Mart's data warehouse, the biggest in the world, enabled it to become a very successful company.

As part of my research for this paper I read Data Warehousing: Using the Wal-Mart Model. by Paul Westerman. The book has great insights on Wal-Mart's data warehouse design and some very useful guidelines on designing software for cooperation.

Labels: Economics, TU

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Beeing in Asia, I decided to visit some friends in Korea as well as Peter, Joe and Stefan who are in Ko Pha-Ngan.

More and more cheap airlines penetrate the world. I used EVA Air to get to Asia and Bangkok Air to fly around in Asia. Both are cheap and proved flexible enough to all the alterations I demanded.

Labels: Asia, Economics

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