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Quantifying the impact of 5G on the healthcare industry

Case study overview

STL partners works closely with clients to identify and evaluate the impact of new and upcoming technologies on industries. We conduct detailed market analyses and identify the real use cases for the short and long term. This includes primary research with key players in the ecosystem, including end customers, to derive first-hand insights.

Through an extensive research programme, including interviews with healthcare enterprises and telco executives within healthcare, and a survey of >200 healthcare professionals, we collaborated with Huawei to:

  • Identify the realistic 5G use cases within healthcare
  • Quantify the impact of each mature 5G use case on the healthcare industry
  • Promote the potential global savings and improvements to patient outcomes through mature 5G
  • Use case detailing and prioritisation

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  • Develop insights-led marketing
  • Position your company as a thought-leader
  • Engage with telco decision-makers

Use case detailing and prioritisation

We worked together with the client, through both research and a series of workshops, to identify the most promising 5G-enabled use cases within the healthcare industry.

  • Built a long list of 5G use cases and their key drivers, as well as the need for 5G
  • Ran workshops with the client to prioritise the long-list down to 3 key use cases
  • For the prioritised use cases, conducted a detailed analysis of the key benefits of the use cases across stakeholder groups – this included an interview programme to healthcare enterprises globally
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Quantification of 5G’s impact on healthcare

Our research also focussed on understanding and quantifying the extent to which these 5G use cases will impact the healthcare industry:

  • We identified key pain points for the healthcare industry that these use cases would address, and subsequently the cost and throughput metrics that the use cases would impact (e.g. number of outpatient visits, time per consultation, number of ambulance calls)
  • Using these metrics, we forecast from the bottom up the global savings to the healthcare industry through these 5G use cases – this included growth and penetration rates across different countries, and was evidenced by a survey to >200 healthcare professionals
  • We calculated both the potential cost savings to the industry, as well as the subsequent increase in patient throughput due to reallocation of spend
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Writing and promoting a co-branded report for our client, Huawei

STL Partners wrote a report aimed at those within healthcare organisations who are responsible for the transformation and digitisation of their industry/their organisations. The content is also relevant to both healthcare application developers/enterprises and telecoms operators with a desire or strategy to explore the healthcare market.

The Report, ‘5G’s Healthcare Impact: 1 billion patients with improved access in 2030’, explores the impact of 5G on the healthcare industry, illustrating the benefits and example use cases as well as quantifying the potential efficiency gains that 5G will enable.

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Assessing viable blockchain use cases to take beyond PoC

Case study overview

STL Partners works with clients to define and prioritise use cases to take forward for further development and proof of concept. We advise on potential partners, business models and go-to-market strategies, as well as provide technical documentation on how the solution would work in practice.

See how STL Partners supported a major telecoms vendor:

  • Identify and prioritise blockchain use cases;
  • Detail promising use cases, including case studies, potential partners and roles for operators;
  • Provide internal strategic guidance on POC.

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  • Identify and prioritise key use cases
  • Define the viable business models
  • Model the business case for new initiatives
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Identify and prioritise blockchain use cases

We underwent several workshops to prioritise blockchain use cases, complemented by an interview programme to test their viability in the industry. The rigorous process combined ideation sessions, run by STL Partners in close collaboration with the client, with ongoing primary research to test the use cases with the market.

To prioritise the use cases we scored each against a set of key requirements including:

  • Clarity of business model for our client
  • Ease of implementation for the use case including barriers to change

We then discussed the output of the scoring in a workshop, using dynamic visualisations to test which use cases should be prioritised for the next phase of the project.

Example deliverables
Example deliverables

Detail promising use cases

STL Partners researched 8 of the most promising use cases in more detail. We identified examples of POCs or in-life deployments of the use case, the value proposition for all parties, and the key drivers for adoption of the use case.

We then published two reports on behalf of our client. The first defined the market situation for blockchain, explored the role of telecoms operators, and outlined more than 35 viable use cases. The second deep-dived on the 8 most promising use cases and explored the benefits and the partnership models for them.

Provide internal strategic guidance on POC

STL Partners worked with our client to define the technical requirements for a POC and identify potential partners.

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Defining a strategy for 5G-enabled services

Case study overview

STL Partners works collaboratively with clients to identify, define, and prioritise use cases and services across a range of growth areas, including 5G. We help clients to define the viable business model options and assess the associated risks and mitigation strategies. This includes detailing and analysing the potential commercial models for a product or service.

Below we outline how STL Partners supported an alliance of mobile operators to:

  • Identify and prioritise 5G use cases;
  • Understand the market landscape, trends, and dynamics;
  • Evaluate the viable business models.

 

 

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  • Identify and prioritise key use cases
  • Define the viable business models
  • Model the business case for new initiatives
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Identify and prioritise 5G use cases

At the beginning of the project STL Partners, in collaboration with the client, identified a long-list of 5G use cases. We then scored these using specific criteria (e.g. client’s right to play, tactical vs strategic opportunity), categorised the use cases into strategic opportunity areas, and subsequently prioritised the strongest opportunity areas for further research and development.

Example deliverables
Example deliverables

Understanding the market landscape, trends, and dynamics

Once the opportunity areas had been prioritised, STL Partners undertook initial research to understand the market context.

We analysed growth across the different market segments, developed the value chain for the opportunity areas (identifying key players within this), and highlighted what telcos (locally and globally) were already doing in the space.

Evaluate the viable business models

STL Partners supported the client in defining their potential roles within the ecosystem. Through primary interviews with solutions partners and extensive desk research, we built a picture of the viable business models and how the client could move higher up the value chain and bring more value to their customers and members.

We undertook a series of internal workshops to align on the client’s existing capabilities and appetite to move into new areas – from this we were able to provide a recommendation to the client on how to pursue the opportunity and the immediate next steps.

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Building the business case for MEC

Case study overview

STL Partners works collaboratively with clients to identify, define, and prioritise use cases and services across a range of growth areas. We help clients to define the viable business model options and build a detailed business case to quantify the opportunity. This includes in-depth cost and revenue modelling to assess returns on investment (ROI), as well as detailing and analysing the potential commercial models for the product or service.

See how we helped a global mobile operator:

  • Identify and define use cases for a MEC product;
  • Score and prioritise those use cases to identify the tactical & strategic opportunities;
  • Size the market and potential revenues for prioritised use cases, including breakdowns by value chain segment;
  • Quantify ROI for roll out of MEC sites across different business models (IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS) and partnership strategies with hyperscalers (Build vs Borrow).

 

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  • Identify and prioritise key use cases
  • Define the viable business models
  • Model the business case for new initiatives
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Head of cloud edge
Global tier-1 operator

Use case identification and definition

For a leading European operator, STL Partners identified over 50 innovative use-cases for edge computing. We looked at use cases spanning both the dedicated and distributed edge, as well as use cases across different viable edge business models.

Once use cases had been identified, STL Partners further developed the use cases, through desk and primary research, highlighting potential customer segments, real life examples, the drivers for edge (on-premise edge or network edge), and the potential proposition (e.g. Gaddi pitches).

Example deliverables
Example deliverables

Use case scoring and prioritisation

Through a series of interactive workshops, STL Partners defined key criteria with the client to score the developed use cases and subsequently prioritise ~8 use-cases, which were in-keeping with the operators “tactical MEC rollout strategy” and wider portfolio.

Criteria included potential pull through revenues, the technical maturity of the solutions, “how edge” to assess the potential value of the proposition to industry customers

Sizing the market and potential revenues

Once the use cases had been prioritised, we undertook market sizing to assess each use-cases financial viability. We sized the addressable market and potential revenues for the client through a bottom up approach, looking at a granular level at use case adoption timelines, regional spend across the client’s key markets, and different pricing model options. We also sized the market by value chain segment to assess where the client should play and where most value could be derived.

Example deliverables
Example deliverables

Quantifying ROI for roll out of MEC sites

In parallel with this use-cases work, STL Partners built a commercial model to inform the telco’s strategy with regards to building and roll out of the MEC platform. We sought to answer the overarching question: “Should the telco build its own MEC infrastructure, or borrow from potential partners (including hyperscalers)?”.  

This exercise included building an analytical model to forecast costs and revenues across different business models the telco could adopt (IaaS, PaaS, solutions etc.), and to assess how this changed over time with increasing server growth and use case adoption. We also looked at different partnership models between the telco and hyperscaler, for example, charging based on data ingress/egress or on a simpler co-location model (charging for power/space).

We could then calculate payback and NPV across these models at different rates of growths and sensitivities to assess worst and best case scenarios. This fed into the client’s subsequent negotiation and partnership with the partner.