The Warehouse

In 2015, I was fortunate enough to lead the sales development effort of a cloud-based supply chain visibility product. The product was geared toward the manufacturing sector to allow a more transparent and collaborative platform to enable information sharing. We leveraged the Salesforce cloud to build the application, and it was intended to support digital transformation efforts within the supply chain to optimize the flow of information, provide real-time data to the supplier, empower collaboration, and scale for adoption. Unfortunately, the ability to execute on the vision failed and it was tied to one key component – the part on delivering real-time data.

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The rise of personal computing in the 1980s and 90s led to a boom in business productivity that was transformative in its scope. Suddenly businesses had the power of what were formerly room-size computers on their desktops. This period saw the rise of the “knowledge worker” and the digitization of business.

But it was the impact of the internet that really drove business to the next level. All of those isolated desktop computers were now connected via a world wide web to enable communication, marketing and commerce without barriers. An open exchange of innovation and ideas fostered rapid growth, collaboration, and the global marketplace. The inter...