market information systems

My array of Squidoo lenses are inter-related and inter-connected. In so much as they also exhibit difference. The objective is to epitomise the market.

Ordinarily, a market will not sound in concert. While it would be nice for the market to line up singing a same tune, more often than not a market situation will involve the sounding of many different melodies all playing at the same time, and more often than not the tunes being played will be 'roughly' out of sync.

Squidoo

Squidoo modules have enabled me to work within concise formats, despite that my work has not been easily fitted into such formats. With work in progress, my first preference would be to over-elaborate my outlines of content. I would do this because I might otherwise miss something that may prove valuable later at a later stage.

On the other hand, Squidoo modules have enabled me to work brief, yet cover broad expanses of data and information.

Beginning with the broadest context - the System of the Market as presented in a lens.
Here is the system abstracted across a learning environment, which has been 'delimited' to the realm of the internet - building a model of a learning environment.

Or more recently web learn

Early development of the mkis web model revolved around the distribution of a promotional image (follow the hyperlink for a concept sketch) - Delivery of a promotional image

Time was spent looking at what might be entailed in the market entity 'consumer'
Buyer
Consumer

A topology has provided the prompt for the market system value and function - see lens.
Or for the mathematically-minded, follow the hyperlink:Topology --- Adapted from - Wikipedia

A market information system adopts the systems-oriented approach - a set of arrangements of things so related as to form a whole.

..an orderly, "architectural" discipline for dealing with complex problems of choice under uncertainty...

Lee Adler - 'Systems approach to Marketing' in Harvard Business Review, May-June, 1967.

The distribution of a promotional image

It is commonplace for the agencies involved in bringing buyers and sellers together to not take title to products and services represented in the promotional image, but instead to take participation in the distribution process as a third party entity. As such, they will not necessarily form a line in the distribution chain.

Nevertheless, as the image moves through the distribution channel from the producer to the eventual end-user (reader/viewer), value will be added to the image through the input that is provided by the various third party entities. Essentially, these agencies will be buying a role in the distribution process. (more on this later).

PDM - Physical distribution management

An alternate course for my work might have framed the pattern of a physical distribution channel, whereby there will be transfer of title (ownership) attributed to a good as it passes through the trade chain. This is not an easy task to accomplish with regard to a web market. The internet environment is not always amenable to the smooth running of physical trade and exchange. Reference will be made to some of the difficulties that are to be encountered in the web market

In the physical distribution channel, where it becomes necessary to cost and insure the status and value of a product as it passes through the various stages of the trade chain, the agency factor(s) will then need to form in a line, as the market situation would require, in concert with the transfer of title of goods from the seller to the buyer.