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June 2010
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A recent article about innovation at BusinessWeek notes two success factor questions regarding an innovation: 1) fit within an organization, and 2) readiness of management to support it. One of the worst competitors in CSP innovation exists inside the same CSP organization itself, as being "not a good fit" (usually technically or by competency) or a perceived threats to traditional business models or its operations. Humanity is truly just in the beginning decades of learning to disruptively... -
The worlds of consumer apps and cloud computing will converge for service providers. Most consumers “downstream” in the apps value network care less about techno cloud talk, they just want a personalized, reliable, inexpensive, and simple experience on their various screens and devices. Yet, on the upstream side of the service provider's business model, app providers (and the technical developers that make them) are increasingly needing services from the cloud. It's at this point that app... -
Prophets of gloom seldom get a warm reception. But they can stimulate proactive and positive mitigation of reasonable risks. The communications industry can learn from other industry’s technology failures and resulting crises and catastrophes, such as two recently caused in financial services and energy production. As we build architectures to enable new digital services, communications industry leaders are increasingly challenged to balance the need for new competitive speed and traditional operational... -
A key ingredient for infrastructure and new services investments by Service Providers is a sustainable overall business model, at least over a long run period. With mobile internet data usage absolutely soaring at AT&T ( over %5000 during 3 years up to late 2009 ) together with unlimited data usage subscription revenues declining on a per user basis, something has had to give at some point. I’m pleased at this week’s business model news from AT&T, as an industry advocate of both investment...
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