Faster than Facebook: How to speed up digital transformation & disruptive innovation

Digital transformation is now impacting every industry, and one of the hardest organisational challenges is developing small-scale innovations fast and managing them in large and mature organisations. Here are our recommendations and key findings from the OnFuture EMEA 2014 cross-industry brainstorm, including a summary of Facebook's internal recipe for speedy success. (More)

$50Bn Enterprise Mobility Opportunity: Over half would buy from telcos, so why don't they?

Our new global research among enterprises and telcos shows that many telco's are ideally positioned, but underprepared, to exploit the fast emerging and evolving $50bn Enterprise Mobility opportunity. How can telcos address this gap? (More)

Agenda Highlights:

• New Strategies for Disruptive Innovation, Transformation & Growth

• Enterprise Mobility

• Customer Experience

• Cloud Services

• Big Data Analytics & Customer Data Monetisation

• M2M/Internet of Things

• M-Payments & Financial services

• Digital Content and Entertainment

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Triple-Play USA: Infrastructure Pays Off

Verizon and Comcast have invested in high bandwidth fibre and cable networks, whereas AT&T has until recently focused on U-Verse, an IPTV play. Which strategy is winning out and why? The answer is surprising and may transform the US and other markets, and there are parallels with Apple and Samsung's 'deep value' strategies of investing in assets that are hard to replicate. (More)

Telco 1.0: Death Slide Starts in Europe

The latest results for Telefonica are grim, showing a 12% y-o-y revenue decline, following Orange and Deutsche Telekom's 4% drops. This signals unequivocally that transformation is now a necessity not a luxury for European operators - and the rest of the world is not far behind. Longer term recovery is possible but not a certainty - what are the key steps?. (More)

Vodafone Strategy: Benchmarked Vs. AT&T, Telefonica, Singtel. +

One of the findings from our new analysis is that Vodafone needs a new growth story. See here for more on the growth story, and here for more on the Vodafone analysis report. (More)

The Software Defined Operator: What are the Consequences?

We see five major trends leading towards the overall picture of the 'software defined operator' - an operator whose boundaries and structure can be set and controlled through software. This presents threats as well as opportunities for industry players selling and wanting to sell to telcos. (More)