Mobile Standards Processes: Do they inhibit business model innovation?
The fiasco of LTE voice standardisation should be a warning to us all against trying to impose any specific business model through the standardisation process.
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Defining the future telco — and what it means for operators and their partners
Full Article: Enterprise Services 2.0: Mastering communications-enabled business processes; Executive Briefing Special
A write up and analysis of new research plus participants’ and speakers’ views at the May 2009 Telco 2.0 Executive Brainstorm exploring the challenges of serving the needs of enterprises. (May 2009, Executive Briefing Service, Cloud and Enterprise ICT stream)
Full Article: Devices 2.0 – Battle for the Edge; Executive Briefing Special
63% of participants at the 6th Telco 2.0 Executive Brainstorm think open devices are the way to go. What should telcos seek to control, and how? (May 2009)
Full Article: Retail Services 2.0: Digital Natives – how to serve a new breed of customer; Executive Briefing Special
A write up and analysis of new research plus participants’ and speakers’ views at the May 2009 Telco 2.0 Executive Brainstorm exploring the challenges of making telcos better retailers. (May 2009)
Full Article: M-Banking: can Zain’s new business model for ZAP rival M-PESA?
A major emerging market operator, Zain, has entered the mobile banking game with a radically different business model.
Full Article: Nokia’s Strange Services Strategy – Lessons from Apple iPhone and RIM
Over the last 10 years, Nokia has sustained a keen interest in applications and services as a complement to its dominant position in hardware and operating systems. It’s hard to say that they’ve made any progress in making a business of it.
Google’s Complex Execution of simple Two-Sided Business Model Strategies
Exploring Google’s mastery of two-sided business models, and identifying the basic strategies for success across all two-sided businesses.
Online Video Distribution Market Study
As online video challenges traditional distribution models, both old and new suppliers are pushing into the value chain in the hope of grabbing a share of the emerging global market. But how will the market develop and which companies will be the ultimate winners?
STL Partners has analysed the potential of online video, identified possible market winners and losers, and set out three interlocking scenarios depicting the evolution of the market. In each scenario, the role of distributors is examined, possible threats and opportunities revealed, and strategic options are discussed. (March 2009)
Full Article: iFlood – How better mobile user interfaces demand Layer Zero openness
Internet video is a tightly-coupled system – so changes in the user interface, like the iPhone, can force seismic shifts in the physical infrastructure.
Full Article: Device evolution: More power at the edge
There is incontrovertible evidence that “intelligence” always moves towards the edge of telecom networks. What can telcos do about it? (Mar 2009)
Full Article: Credit Crisis, Part 8: Show Us Your Labs
The eighth and latest of our acclaimed series on the global financial crisis
Full Article: Defining the Digital Generation: Young Today, Grey Tomorrow
The activities of today’s youth will cascade across the generations. Service providers need to be ready for the customer of the future
Online Video Distribution: how will the market play out?
Disruption in the online video distribution market presents “a once in a lifetime chance to change their place” for some and a severe strategic threat for others. Likely scenarios and strategies that players should adopt for success. (Executive Briefing, Future of the Networks Stream, Feb 2009.)
Full Article: BSkyB Platform – Lessons
BSkyB’s platform shows a multi-sided business model in action, bringing value to both upstream and downstream customers and earning decent returns for shareholders.
Full Article: Online video distribution
This briefing summarises key outputs from a recent STL Partners research report and survey on Online Video Distribution. It considers the evolution of the key technologies, and the shifting industry structures, business models and behaviours involved in content creation, distribution, aggregation and viewing.
Full Article: LiMo – The Tortoise picks up Momentum
LiMo is the most Telco 2.0 of mobile Linuxes – why did their showing at MWC impress us so much?
Full Article: The Digital Generation: Introducing the Participation Imperative Framework
The “Participation Imperative Framework” describes new customer behaviour and needs that will drive future product and service innovation.
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