Top Article in this Issue
| Measuring Industry Digitization: Leaders and Laggards in the Digital Economy By Roman Friedrich, Matthew Le Merle, Florian Gröne, Alex Koster As the pace of digitization speeds up, companies in every industry are looking to capture their fair share of the value being created. Our Industry Digitization Index indicates which industries are forging ahead—financial services and computers and electronics—and which are lagging—real estate, construction, and consumer goods. All companies can benefit by understanding where their industry stands in this critical effort, and where it needs to improve.download (600kb, PDF) > |
Additional New Articles
| Exploiting the Core: Returning Telecom Operators to Profitability Growth By Martin Reitenspiess, Christopher Rischard, Dieter Trimmel, Florian Troesch Few telecom operators are increasing their profits these days. Revenues are essentially flat, and the returns on their cost-cutting efforts are diminishing. Restoring profitability growth will require operators to rethink their core businesses. A balanced program based on leveraging underdeveloped customer segments, generating more revenue from existing customers, simplifying the product portfolio, and realigning costs in light of customer needs will put operators back on the path to greater profits.download (480kb, PDF) > |
| 2012 Telecommunications Industry Perspective
By Karim Sabbagh, Roman Friedrich, Michael Peterson, Bahjat El-Darwiche Over the past year, the telecommunications industry recovered greatly from the global recession and began to come to terms with an increasingly demanding business and retail customer base. A consensus has been reached as to the different business models—network guarantor, business enabler, experience provider, and global multimarketer—needed to serve those customers, and 2012 will be the year when leading operators begin to build the capabilities needed to fulfill this demand.read more > |
| 2012 Technology Industry Perspective
By Alex Koster, Toshiya Imai, Dr. Pierre Peladeau, Matthew Le Merle, Kenny Kurtzman Digitization is the new name of the game in the technology industry, and 2012 appears to be the year when many of the trends that form the backbone of digitization—cloud computing, connectivity, and big data analytics, among others—will begin bearing fruit. If technology companies are to become active partners of industry verticals as they embark on their respective digital transformations, they must build the capabilities needed to better understand how different verticals operate and where the value streams can be found, and build solutions that can scale to entire industries.read more > |
| SIM-Based NFC Socio-economic Benefits Analysis
Near-field communications (NFC) technology is rapidly being adopted in many markets around the world. If the many advantages of the technology are to be realized—including lower costs, more competition, and greater consumer value and choice—the telecom industry must work in tandem with the many service industries that stand to benefit to ensure that the technology is standardized and fully secure.download (1.9mb, PDF) > |
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