Self-Disruption: How Sprint Blew It

How Sprint's necessary shutdown of Nextel turned into a commercial disaster, losing valuable customers, reputation, and market share. Our analysis shows that amidst the drama of the Softbank deal and the complexity of a major network upgrade, SMB customer needs were neglected, and its competitors (VZW, AT&T and T-Mobile) stepped smartly in. (More)

Mobile Marketing and Commerce: The technology battle between NFC, BLE, SIM, & Cloud

This new report will help digital commerce players assess some tough technology and strategy choices in the on-going mobile marketing and commerce battle. E.g Will bricks and mortar merchants embrace NFC, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), or cloud-based solutions? (More)

NEW Telco 2.0 Transformation Index: Singtel, Telefonica lead AT&T, VZW and Ooredoo (all need more)

The initial tranche of the Telco 2.0 Transformation Index research shows that Singtel and Telefonica have made more progress than AT&T, Verizon and Ooredoo, but that all are still at a relatively early stage of maturity and have much still to do. This new research provides an overall comparative benchmark and in-depth analysis of each against transforming their operations and building new 'Telco 2.0' business models. (More)

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CSPs / Telcos: Join our Enterprise Mobility Programme

If you work on behalf of a Communications Service Provider (CSP) in marketing, strategy, technology, IT or product development/management, we would like to ask you to join and participate in a strategic research programme we are undertaking on Enterprise Mobility. (More)

Why Transformation Matters: How Telcos can add 50% Share Value

Transformation can be hugely valuable for telcos if they can grow platform and product innovation revenues to add to their core services. In this post previewing some of the findings from the new Telco 2.0 Transformation Index (published next week) we show how this could work. (More)

Threat to $172bn Telecoms revenues: Defence strategies & growth opportunities

Telcos could lose up to $172bn from core revenues in five years, however with dramatic improvements to voice and messaging strategies Telcos' can fight back with opportunities worth as much as $80bn.The Future of Voice and Messaging, will aid better decisions on investments, external benchmarking, and competitor analysis including strategies for defending your business against disruptive competitors. (More)

Digital Commerce 2.0: How telcos can add c.$50bn to total revenues

Our major new report Digital Commerce 2.0: New $Bn Disruptive Opportunities for Telcos, Banks and Technology Players shows that if telcos fully commit to taking new roles as 'intermediaries' and 'enablers' in Mobile Commerce (advertising, marketing, payments, loyalty) and Personal Cloud, they could grow new revenues amounting to 5% of today's core revenues in 5 years. (More)

The $50bn Enterprise Mobility Opportunity: Four steps for telcos to take today?

Enterprises are turning to mobility to transform their operations, creating a c.$50bn 'Enterprise Mobility' opportunity globally. There are four levels of engagement that telcos can adopt to start to capture a share of this market, and upgrade and repurpose their internal capabilities to deliver repeatable, high volume, customer-facing growth initiatives. They need tools, technologies and partnerships to provide the deep industry knowledge and mobile workforce expertise. This will allow them to take a defined proposition to market and evolve from being "just another channel" to originators and owners of intellectual property. (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)