Defining the future telco — and what it means for operators and their partners
A step-by-step guide for telecoms executives seeking to innovate and develop compelling new services to compete in the ‘services layer’, and develop a new telecoms business models to replace the contracting voice and messaging revenue streams with new revenues from new products and services and customers. (September 2013, Executive Briefing Service, Transformation Stream.)
Finding the Next Golden Egg
The provision of Location Insight Services (LIS) represents a significant opportunity for Telcos to monetise subscriber data assets. This report examines the findings of a survey conducted amongst representatives of key stakeholders within the emerging ecosystem, supplemented by STL Partners’ research and analysis with the objective of determining how operators can release the value from their unique position in the location value chain. (August 2013, Foundation 2.0, Executive Briefing Service, Dealing with Disruption Stream.)
Making Money from Location Insights
This extract from the Telco 2.0 Transformation Index shows our analysis of Telefonica’s markets and market position, including economic and digital market maturity, regulation, customers, competition and pricing. It is one part of our overall analysis of Telefonica’s progress towards transformation to the Telco 2.0 business model. The other parts of the Telefonica analysis are: Service Proposition, Finances, Technology, Value Network, and an overall summary. Telefonica is one of the companies analysed and compared in the first tranche of analysis that also addresses Vodafone, AT&T, Verizon, Axiata, SingTel, Etisalat and Ooredoo (formerly Qtel). (August 2013, Executive Briefing Service, Transformation Stream.) Telefonica Telco 2.0 Transformation Index Small
The advent of smartphones and tablets is disrupting the $10Bn+ loyalty market by opening up new ways for brands and retailers to engage with their customers in a highly interactive fashion. This briefing analyses that market, why mobile is a compelling medium in it, key mobile app types, and leading edge strategies used by online players and traditional retailers. It concludes by outlining the strategies telcos need to employ to add value and exploit their assets and capabilities to play a major role in the value chain. (July 2013, Executive Briefing Service, Dealing with Disruption Stream.)
Loyalty and Mobile Venn Diagram 2013
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
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
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
This extract from our recent Executive Briefing on Software Defined Networking (SDN), describes ‘Network Functions Virtualisation’ (NFV), the problems it solves, and how it relates to SDN. (June 2013, Foundation 2.0, Executive Briefing Service, Cloud & Enterprise ICT Stream.)
Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) Approach June 2013
Strategic Growth Opportunities for a Hyper-Connected World. Presentations from the Digital Economy stream of the New Digital Economics Brainstorm, 5th June 2013, in London. Including: Digital Transformation | Digital Customers | Digital Infrastructure
Digital Economy 2.0 EMEA London June 2013
Closing the Loop between Advertising & Payments. Presentations from the Digital Commerce stream of the New Digital Economics Brainstorm, 6th June 2013, in London. Including: SoLoMo | Advertising & Marketing | Big Data (June 2013, Executive Briefing Service, Dealing with Disruption Stream.)
Digital Commerce 2.0 EMEA London June 2013
New Opportunities in M2M and the Internet of Things. Presentations from the Digital Things stream of the New Digital Economics Brainstorm, 6th June 2013, in London. Including: Internet of Things| IOT Platform | Big Data
Digital Things 2.0 EMEA London June 2013
Big Data. Presentations from the Big Data stream of the New Digital Economics Brainstorm, 6th June 2013, in London, including STL Partners’ overview and insight from the European Commission.
Big Data EMEA London June 2013
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
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
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
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
‘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
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