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Digital Transformation 2.0: Report and Analysis of the EMEA 2013 Event

Digital Transformation 2.0: Report and Analysis of the EMEA 2013 Event

Digital Transformation 2.0: A summary of the findings of the Digital Transformation session at the New Digital Economics Executive Brainstorm, EMEA, held at the Wyndham Grand Hotel, London, on the 5th June 2013. The Brainstorm covered Digital Transformation Strategies, meeting changing customer needs through disruption, and opportunities in Cloud, SDN and Cybersecurity. (June 2013, Executive Briefing Service, Transformation Stream.)
Transformation 2.0: Event Summary Analysis Presentation

Executive Briefing Service — June 2013
Digital Commerce 2.0: Report and Analysis of the EMEA 2013 Event

Digital Commerce 2.0: Report and Analysis of the EMEA 2013 Event

Digital Commerce 2.0: A summary of the findings of the Digital Commerce 2.0 Executive Brainstorm, 6 June 2013, held in the Wyndham Grand Hotel, London, part of the New Digital Economics EMEA event. With more and more people using their smartphones to shop, the Brainstorm explored how to use mobile technologies and capabilities to optimise and enable each element of the wheel of commerce. The sessions explored the evolution of mobile payments, the need to rethink mobile advertising/marketing and the potentially pivotal role of personal data.
Digital Commerce 2.0: Event Summary Analysis Presentation

Executive Briefing Service — June 2013
Digital Things 2.0: Report and Analysis of the EMEA 2013 Event

Digital Things 2.0: Report and Analysis of the EMEA 2013 Event

Digital Things 2.0: A summary of the findings of the Digital Things session at the New Digital Economics Executive Brainstorm, EMEA, held at the Wyndham Grand Hotel, London, on the 6th June 2013. The Brainstorm covered strategies, business models and platform requirements for the Internet of Things, and the critical relationship between this field and ‘Big Data’.
Digital Things 2.0: Event Summary Analysis Presentation

Executive Briefing Service — June 2013
Customer Experience: Is it Time for the Mobile CDN?

Customer Experience: Is it Time for the Mobile CDN?

Changing consumer behaviours and the transition to 4G are likely to bring about a fresh surge of video traffic on many networks. Fortunately, mobile content delivery networks (CDNs), which should deliver both better customer experience and lower costs, are now potentially an option for carriers using a combination of technical advances and new strategic approaches to network design. This briefing examines why, how, and what operators should do, and includes lessons from Akamai, Level 3, Amazon, and Google. (May 2013, Executive Briefing Service).
CDN Traffic as Percentage of Backbone May 2013

Executive Briefing Service — May 2013
Software Defined Networking (SDN): A Potential ‘Game Changer’

Software Defined Networking (SDN): A Potential ‘Game Changer’

Software Defined Networking is a technological approach to designing and managing networks that has the potential to increase operator agility, lower costs, and disrupt the vendor landscape. Its initial impact has been within leading-edge data centres, but it also has the potential to spread into many other network areas, including core public telecoms networks. This briefing analyses its potential benefits and use cases, outlines strategic scenarios and key action plans for telcos, summarises key vendor positions, and why it is so important for both the telco and vendor communities to adopt and exploit SDN capabilities now. (May 2013, Executive Briefing Service, Cloud & Enterprise ICT Stream, Future of the Networks Stream).
Potential Telco SDN/NFV Deployment Phases May 2013

Executive Briefing Service, Network Innovation , — May 2013
Digital Commerce: Time to redefine the Mobile Wallet

Digital Commerce: Time to redefine the Mobile Wallet

The ‘Mobile/Digital Wallet’ needs to evolve to support authentication, search and discovery, as well as payments, vouchers, tickets and loyalty programmes. Moreover, consumers will want to be able to tailor the functionality of this “commerce assistant” or “commerce agent” to fit with their own interests and preferences. Our report and analysis of the Digital Commerce 2.0 Executive Brainstorm, 20 March 2013, part of the New Digital Economics Silicon Valley event. (April 2013, Executive Briefing Service, Dealing with Disruption Stream.)
Who is best placed to win in local commerce April 2013

Executive Briefing Service, Consumer — April 2013
Digital Economy: who will prosper in ‘The Great Compression’?

Digital Economy: who will prosper in ‘The Great Compression’?

Value is squeezed out of industries as they become increasingly digital – i.e. accessed by mobile and online, driven by data and defined by software. We call the collective economic impact of this pressure ‘The Great Compression’. But which companies will survive and prosper – and how? 90% of the Execs at our Silicon Valley brainstorm identified ‘management mindset’ as a key factor in Telecoms, Media, Finance and Retail. Our analysis and a detailed report of the findings of the Digital Economy session at the NDE Executive Brainstorm, Silicon Valley, held at the InterContinental Hotel, San Francisco on the 19th March 2013. (May 2013, Executive Briefing Service, Transformation Stream).
Scale of Transformation Needed April 2013

Executive Briefing Service — April 2013
The Internet of Things (IoT): What’s Hot, and How?

The Internet of Things (IoT): What’s Hot, and How?

‘The Internet of Things’ (IoT) is one of the big ideas of the moment. But what are the areas in which value is being created now, and what is still technological hype? A summary of the findings of the Digital Things session at the NDE Executive Brainstorm, Silicon Valley, held at the InterContinental Hotel, San Francisco on the 20th March 2013. (April 2013)
Building Blocks Urgently Needed for IoT April 2013

Executive Briefing Service — April 2013
Digital Entertainment: What Gets Measured Gets Money

Digital Entertainment: What Gets Measured Gets Money

For mobile entertainment services to generate revenues commensurate to the attention they receive, the industry needs to improve ‘discovery’ tools, create more effective creative inventory, and deliver proof of its effectiveness. A summary of the Digital Entertainment 2.0 session of the 2013 Silicon Valley Brainstorm, held on the 20th March 2013, Intercontinental Hotel, San Francisco. (April 2013)
Digital Entertainment 2.0: What Gets Measured Gets Money

Executive Briefing Service — April 2013
Digital Commerce: Show me the (Mobile) Money

Digital Commerce: Show me the (Mobile) Money

Many companies are struggling to build a mobile commerce business case that generates significant incremental revenues in the next five years. But some will ultimately use digital wallets to create a valuable platform that bolsters customer loyalty and produces substantial revenues from location-based marketing, advertising and the management of personal data. What are the barriers, how can they be overcome, and what are the key actions for telcos, major internet players, banks and payment networks?

Executive Briefing Service, Consumer — April 2013
Facebook Home: what is the impact?

Facebook Home: what is the impact?

Facebook has launched ‘Facebook Home’, technically a shell around the Android OS, that in theory creates valuable new advertising inventory on the screens of users’ phones. What will its impact be in practice for Facebook, and on Google, mobile operators, and other device manufacturers? (April 2013, Foundation 2.0, Executive Briefing Service, Dealing with Disruption Stream.)
Facebook Home ‘Coverfeed’ April 2013

Executive Briefing Service, Consumer — April 2013

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