Let the World Revolve Around You!

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. ——John Stuart Mill, 19th century English philosopher I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. —Woodrow Wilson More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. —Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary-General

What Is the Living Widgets Global Supply Network?

The Living Widgets Global Supply Network project is a consortium-based effort to integrate all global supply networks into a single entity. Developed in 3 phases over the next 10 years, the Living Widgets Global Supply Network will transform e-commerce in the same way that RSS feeds are beginning to transform the publishing and broadcast industries. RSS feeds let any individual post content to the World Wide Web for computers to automatically read and present to the world. It is a form of publishing or broadcasting that is very much like what used to only be available to television and radio stations and newspaper and magazine publishers.

Living Widgets will automate a variety of purchasing and selling operations for members of a supply network, and hook them into the global marketplace. As the tools evolve over the next 10 years, even the smallest of businesses will be able to access these sophisticated tools, including comprehensive supply network management, auctions, and reverse auctions. Companies using powerful tools like SAP and Ariba will be able to interface with a much larger network of suppliers and customers.

Become a Part of the Global Economy

Follow the pioneering work of the Living Widgets Consortium, and get involved.

• Visit our daily blog: blog.LivingWidgets.com. For your convenience, at the bottom of the blog page, you can subscribe for daily e-mail updates.

  Subscribe to the Living Widgets blog using your favorite reader, through FeedBurner's user-friendly interface!

• Read Increase Profits With the Living Widgets Global Supply Network (click right to save the file to your machine), a compilation of the Living Widgets blog into a book (up through the 7/11/2010 post)
• If you believe that you and/or your company would like to get involved, send us an e-mail at: livingwidgets@pghpioneers.com. Join North Shore Technologies and other leading companies as they shape the future of commerce.

Related Projects

Millennial Corporations

• Blog: blog.MillennialCorporation.com
• LinkedIn Group: LinkedIn.MillennialCorporation.com (need to sign up for LinkedIn)

For other projects, visit the Pittsburgh Pioneers web site.

Last Updated: July 12, 2010