Trading and Exchanging Data for Services

How about a Hub of All Things?

" ... The HAT is a personal data platform created to do two things. First, the HAT acts as a personal data container and management system. This enables us as individuals to acquire our own data from Internet-connected objects or services and then to transform it by placing it into its wider context. This means that it becomes more meaningful and useful for making better decisions in our lives.

Second, it allows us to trade and exchange our own data for services in a standardised and structured manner. The HAT functions as a multi-sided market platform, in line with its objective to engineer a market for personal data. It aims to provide opportunity on both sides of the exchange  ... " 

Shared Services

A Baseline article on Shared Services Organizations at Procter & Gamble. Have seen little written about these and how they are run. I was a member of Global Businesss Services at P&G, and this rings true as an introduction. Though it does not detail some of the inherent problems in establishing it in a complex organization. Related: Comparing oursourcing versus shared services.