Verbatim Output of the ‘Mindshare’ System from the Silicon Valley Executive Brainstorm & Innovation Forum, 19-20 March 2013, San Francisco. (April 2013)
Silicon Valley 2013 Verbatim Mindhare Output
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
In the next 10 years, many industries face the ‘Great Compression’ in which, in addition to the pressures of ongoing global economic uncertainty, there is also a major digital transformation that is destroying traditional value and moving it ‘disruptively’ to new areas and geographies. For the incumbent industry players we call the near-term results of this disruption ‘The Digital Hunger Gap’ – the widening deficit between past and projected revenues. This is our analysis of the top-level findings of the Silicon Valley Executive Brainstorm. (March 2013, Executive Briefing Service, Transformation Stream.)
10 Year Hunger Gap Mar 2013
Strategic Growth Opportunities for a Hyper-Connected World. Presentations from the Digital Economy stream of the New Digital Economics Brainstorm, 19th March 2013, in San Francisco. Including: Digital Transformation | Digital Consumer | Digital Infrastructure
Digital Economy 2.0 Silicon Valley March 2013
Closing the Loop between Advertising & Payments. Presentations from the Digital Commerce stream of the New Digital Economics Brainstorm, 20th March 2013, in San Francisco. Including: Where’s the money in SoLoMo? | Advertising & Marketing | Big Data (March 2013, Executive Briefing Service, Dealing with Disruption)
Digital Commerce 2.0 Silicon Valley March 2013
We were surprised to hear Huawei’s objective of becoming the world’s No.1 Smartphone maker at last year’s Mobile World Congress, and somewhat dubious whether it would achieve that goal. However, at this year’s show Huawei demonstrated impressive progress, and we consider it is no longer a question of if, but when it will achieve its goal. In this analysis we explore industry scenarios and their consequences. (March 2013, Executive Briefing Service).
Huawei Ascend Smartphone