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.
Network Futures
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.