EMV Compliance – USA Versus Rest Of World
My personal experience with EMV payment cards goes back over 15 years. Credit cards and debit cards were both EMV-compliant in Germany when I was there in the early 2000s.…
Tradeshow SAAS Provider Digs Into The Trenches
Here's our latest success story: Tradeshow SAAS Provider Digs Into The Trenches Product management inputs enrich product Coming from the advertising industry, the founders of this startup were deeply exposed…
Why Do People Lie With Charts?
In Three Ways To Lie With Charts, we saw the following tactics: Slippery Slope Slide Floating Origin Fraud Dual Axis Deception The most common reason for people to lie with charts…
Blockchain – Calling BS On Decentralization & Resilience
Since I wrote Flight Delay Insurance – Why Blockchain?, I've come across several updates that have reinforced my skeptical views around the claim of decentralization and raised new doubts about the…
Three Ways To Lie With Charts
Lying with charts is the natural progression from Lying With Big Data and Pixie Dust Sampling – Or How To Commit Harakiri By Lying With Big Data. I have come across…
Social Media Customer Service – Use It But Don’t Abuse It
Frequent readers of this blog and people who otherwise know me would be aware that I'm a big fan of social media customer service. Many years ago, I wrote Customers Of…
Five Ways To Stand Out In A Highly Competitive B2B Market
This is a slightly edited version of my answer to the following question on Quora: Given below are five things that you, as a seller of a B2B product or service,…
Regulated Blockchain – Oxymoron But Killer App
There are many business relationships where trust is one-sided. Let me give a few examples of such relationships in which the contract between two parties A and B is such…
Gayatri Wins AGI Poster Contest!
I'm happy to inform that my daughter, Gayatri Ketharaman, won the Grand Prize in the Alliance Graphique Internationale Poster Contest for her following work. For the uninitiated, Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) is…
Season’s Greetings!
Season’s Greetings & Best Wishes for a Happy New Year! Welcome back to GTM360 Blog! Great to have you!! In this first post of 2019 on GTM360 Blog, we list…