The EEI Platform developed an activity framework that suits the objectives and mission by applying corresponding instruments. This activity framework is based on a S.M.A.R.T. approach
The SMART approach
A SMART approach is more or less instructive. The activities and instruments resulting form this approach generate opportunities for EEI Platform members, partners and participants. With a SMART approach, it is more likely that planned activities listed will be realised in practice.
The S.M.A.R.T. approach stands for: [click for drop down]
Activities and instruments: segments
The activities and instruments based on this S.M.A.R.T. approach can be divided into four segments; based on their nature (knowledge or business) and focus (internal and external). These four segments can then be used to comprise the following matrix:
nature: knowledge | nature: business | |
focus: internal | OBTAIN+KNOWLEDGE | BUILDING+NETWORKS |
focus: external | SHARING+INFORMATION | PROMOTING+INTERESTS |
OBTAIN+KNOWLEDGE
The segment OBTAIN+KNOWLEDGE aims to improve the knowledge of members, partners and participants on e-invoicing and complementary domains, by sharing knowledge with each other.»
BUILDING+NETWORKS
The segment BUILDING+NETWORKS aims to strengthen, broaden, deepen, et cetera the propositions of EEI Platform members and partners. This also enables complementary domains as banking, credit management and payment to being linked to portfolios of for instance service providers and financial software.»
SHARING+INFORMATION
The segment SHARING+INFORMATION aims to provide flexible information from multiple viewpoints that has been made available by members and partners. Given the nature of the activities in this segment, it appears that the activities have a high business cluster content by nature.»
PROMOTING+INTERESTS
The PROMOTING+INTERESTS segment includes activities which by their nature belong to a business cluster, and have an purely external effect. Activities and instruments deployed in this segment display the propositions of the participants towards the targetaudiences as profitable as possible.»
Documentation
For a more detailed information on our activitity frame, the instruments, activities and segments: go to our Download Center
Sometimes the ‘A’ in a S.M.A.R.T. approach can also interpreted as ” Appointable”. This means that it must be clear who is responsible for achieving a specific goal. Another explanation for the ‘A’, can be “Activating” or “Actionable”. This means the objective should encourage action and unlocking energy. The objective is to be positively defined. The basic aim is to ensure that it leads to a distinctive results.
The aim is not to transfer critical business oriented or competitive knowledge. More over it is about the transfer of a ‘common’ body of knowledge that facilitates the acceleration, adoption and penetration and of e-invoicing and invoice automation across Europa and its Member States.
The intended result of activities within the segment OBTAIN+KNOWLEDGE is the creation of a common viewpoint on e-invoicing and invoice automation and its impact on complementary domains. But also addressing the perception of complexity and the intended needs of standardisation. Without developing new standardisation activities.
Together with the segment SHARING+INFORMATION, the segment OBTAIN+KNOWLEDGE is the starting point for the segment BUILDING+NETWORKS. The difference is that the segment BUILDING+NETWORKS addresses a business cluster approach by nature.
The purpose of the activities in this segment is to add more market-oriented innovative products and services, enhancing the penetration and adoption of electronic invoicing . Of course it is up to the members and partners to determine whether and if so, to what extent he or she wants to use the activities facilitated in the segment BUILDING+NETWORKS.
The result of the activities in the segment SHARING+INFORMATION should be that the the EEI Platform, its instruments, members and partners are pointed out as the authentic source of unique information on electronic invoicing.
By providing an authentic source with clear but flexible information on e-invoicing, the penetration and use of electronic invoicing can be accelerated, combined with opportunities for members and partners.
The PROMOTING+INTERESTS segment correlates the strongest to the objective of members, partners and participants to obtain directly measurable results (= turnover, profit, customers).
Follow us on: