Top Ten Articles of 2013:
Disruption, Digital Commerce, Cloud and IoT

Disruption
•  Free Mobile: A Prototype for Disruption?
•  Sprint-Softbank: how it will disrupt US market
•  The Great Compression: surviving the 'Digital Hunger Gap'

Digital Commerce
•  $10Bn Loyalty Market: Top Strategies and Apps for Telcos, Retailers, Online Players
•  Mobile Wallet: Time for a rethink

Cloud
•  Software Defined Networking (SDN): A Potential 'Game-Changer'
•  Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) vs. Software Defined Networking (SDN)
•  Cloud 2.0: Telco Strategies in the Cloud

Internet of Things (IoT)
•  The Internet of Things: What's Hot in The IoT?

Telco 2.0 Transformation Index: The first benchmark of future telco business models

The Telco 2.0 Transformation Index provides a fast, comprehensive, and high impact strategic reality-check and forward outlook to help telcos, their partners and investors improve returns on strategic investments and activities. It assesses current market performance and positioning, new services, transformative strategies, and future competitive and collaborative abilities of key telcos/CSPs against their potential and 'best-in-class' peers (including 'OTT' Players) in an industry facing a $400Bn 'digital hunger gap' and with core revenues declining by 20-30%. The first tranche of analysis addresses Telefonica, Vodafone, AT&T, Verizon, Axiata, SingTel, Etisalat and Ooredoo (formerly Qtel). Each company is analysed and scored in detail and direct comparisons can be made via the overall summary analysis. The approach is based on seven years of proprietary and market-leading research by the Telco 2.0 Initiative. (More)

Focused on the Middle East and North Africa - Digital Arabia 2013 focuses on new ways to drive innovation and growth in digital commerce, content and communications. New for this year we will be featuring Innovation Souq! an interactive forum, showcasing the latest cutting-edge innovations in mobile and digital technology.

Venue & Date: Jumeirah Creekside Hotel, Dubai, 11-13th November 2013.

Agenda Highlights:

Tuesday 12th November
• Digital Economy: Driving Innovation & Growth in a Hyper-Connected World
• Innovation Souq!: Enterprise Productivity
• Roundtable: Mobile Financial Services 2.0 (*Special Invitation only*)

Wednesday 13th November
• Innovation Souq!: Mobile Marketing, Commerce & Content
• Digital Entertainment: Creating a more profitable ecosystem across the MENA region
• Digital Commerce: Disruptive innovation in retailing, marketing and distribution
• Digital Things: Strategic Opportunities in M2M and the ‘Internet of Things’

For further information and to view the agenda please click here

Early bird offers are available on applications made before 2nd August 2013 - simply mention 'early booking 2013' when applying to participate.

$10Bn Loyalty Market: Top Strategies and Apps for Telcos, Retailers, Online Players

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. (More)

Cloud 2.0: NEW Rapid Impact Programmes to Fast-track your Cloud Strategy

With the right strategy, telcos can take a larger share of the $40bn + and growing Cloud market. We now offer tailored programmes for clients looking to save time and improve market performance by fast-tracking their Cloud Strategy, helping to size market potential, benchmarking against external best practice, securing internal alignment of objectives and plans, prioritising key activities, and selecting candidate vendor partners as required. The programmes are based on our proprietary Cloud 2.0 Research and run by our experienced senior analysts who have hands-on experience of delivering cloud services in the real world. (More)