Interim report: activities and instruments in 2010

A few weeks ago we asked everyone to fill out our survey with instruments and activities that the EEI Platform could undertake in 2010. It is now time to display the interim results on our survey.

You can go through our survey at http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/2229849. If you haven’t  filled out our poll, you still have the opportunity: the survey ends at 31 December 2009.

So, take a minute and speak up.

Thanks a lot.

Diagrams
Underneath is a circular diagram with the current interim results:

The bar diagram makes it even more visible:

At this point it becomes clear that the EEI ‘community’ (newsletter, twitter, RSS, LinkedIN) gives priority to:
- Statistic research on e-invoicing usage and adoption
- publication: “Starting with e-invoicing”
- suppliers guide
- EEI Conference
- Online community: online before 31-12-2009

Reuse before buy, buy before make
The EEI Platform is a convinced believer of this formula. Why not reuse what is already available.

For instance SEPA International presented its “E-invoicing Guide for SME’s” (which more targeted on Medium Sized Enterprises and Developers of financial software though). It is a starting-guide-on-e-invoicing-ish. The EEI Platform will publish it next week on its website.

And in its publication, SEPA International presents some of the findings from a SME questionnaire that the EC Expert Group sent out in 2008. But maybe a broader and more profound survey would also be welcomed.

So the EEI Platform will try to incorporate as much material as possible (and allowed) to enhance the impact of the results, before developing proprietary instruments.