--- begin forwarded text Sender: e$@thumper.vmeng.com Reply-To: mikkelsen@parc.xerox.com (Jim Mikkelsen) (by way of frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)) Mime-Version: 1.0 Precedence: Bulk Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 11:53:09 -0700 From: mikkelsen@parc.xerox.com (Jim Mikkelsen) (by way of frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)) To: Multiple recipients of <e$@thumper.vmeng.com> Subject: PARC Forum, 7-18-96, Gregory Schmid, "The Future of Consumer Electronic Xerox PARC Forum Thursday, July 18, 1996, 4:00PM, PARC Auditorium The Future of Consumer Electronic Payments: The Impact on the Distribution Chain Gregory Schmid, Institute For The Future This talk explores the critical changes pushing consmers into the world of electronic transactions--improved technologies, better security, and consumers' growing experience with card-based and other electronic transaction technologies. These changes will not only affect customer behaviors, but will transform the distribution chain, bring in new players, force the current players to fundamentally transform the way they conduct business, and encourage policymakers to find the right balance of regulation and market forces. Combined, these impacts will change the basic relationship between businesses and their customers forever. Only the stakeholders who are prepared for such changes will carve out their place in the new world. Greg directs IFTF's long-term forecasting and strategic planning efforts in both the public and private sectors. He has been Director of IFTF's Corporate Associates Program (CAP) since its inception in 1976 and is also the overall editor of CAP's "Ten-Year Forecast." Greg has overseen projects for many Fortune 500 companies, including those in the financial services, high technology, consumer products, professional services, and healthcare industries. As an economist, historian, and policy analyst, Greg uses a variety of research and planning techniques to work with clients in exploring strategic choices. His most recent book is "Future Tense: The Business Realities of the Next Ten Years" (William Morrow, 1994) with Ian Morrison. Before joining IFTF Greg headed a research division of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. A graduate of Yale, Greg received his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University. ------------------------------- This Forum is OPEN to the public. Host: Jim Mikkelsen 415-812-4401 Web site: http://www.parc.xerox.com/ops/projects/forum Requests for videotapes for "Xerox Employees Only" should be sent to Susie Mulhern (Mulhern@parc.xerox.com). Refreshments will be served from 3:45 - 4:00PM. The PARC Auditorium is located at 3333 Coyote Hill Road in Palo Alto. We are located in the Stanford Research Park, between Page Mill Road (west of Foothill Expressway) and Hillview Avenue. The easiest way to get here is to take Page Mill Road to Coyote Hill Road, and, as you drive up Coyote Hill between the horse pastures, PARC is the only building on the left after you crest the hill. Please park in the large (lower) lot to your right; enter the auditorium at the upper level of the building. (The auditorium entrance is located to the left of the main door and down the stairs.) ------------------------------- Next Week's Forum is Shirley Tessler, Stanford University, on "A Pilot Study of Software Product Management." --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "'Bart Bucks' are not legal tender." -- Punishment, 100 times on a chalkboard, for Bart Simpson The e$ Home Page: http://www.vmeng.com/rah/