Strategy and Business Innovation for Connectivity and Digital Economy Markets

The VW Golf and Audi TT share a common platform, as do Chevy and GMC SUVs. The foundations for these automotive platforms are, firstly, cr...

Finland’s academic, commercial and government connections can inspire other 6G clusters 3GPP’s December 2023 announcement, committing to dev...

Amazon opened 2022 with announcements targeting the smart home community that is forming around the Matter protocol and opportunities for I...

The recent and abrupt change in Twitter’s governance model has large businesses scaling back their advertising spend on the platform. Anecd...

Copenhagen Business School recently hosted an expert panel [1] to explore how algorithms and data shape competition in the context of platfo...

Over the past few years, the World IoT Day movement [1] has drawn considerable attention to the opportunities presented by IoT technologies....

A couple of recent and seemingly unconnected publications provide food for strategic thought on the topic of IoT platforms.  Platforms are a...

My last article [1] introduced a framework to explain the basic elements of an IoT system with the aim of highlighting where Artificial Inte...

A couple of years ago, I was in conversation with a group of technologists and investors at the annual meeting of the Transportation Researc...

Earlier this month, the publications team from Mobile Europe hosted their Smart IoT Connect event in London [1]. This is one in a regular ...

People are so preoccupied with everyday tasks that they often miss out on what is around them. Walking down the street, how often do you ...

The consultancy McKinsey recently republished a 2007 interview with Richard Rumelt [1], professor of strategy at UCLA’s Anderson School of M...

Several weeks ago, I was in a briefing call with a panelist who was preparing for an event on privacy and security challenges in the IoT m...

Mobile operators, it would appear, remain captivated by connectivity solutions. Most recently, low-power technologies (e.g. LoRA, NB-IoT, Si...

What are the important industry dynamics in the smart buildings sector and is there a role for the IoT? Last week, I attended the 6th Buildi...

A few weeks ago [1] , I wrote about the potential for telcos to take advantage of digital transformation opportunities to boost industry gro...

Over the past few weeks, McKinsey [1] and the World Economic Forum (WEF) [2] have weighed in on the debate about long term growth prospects ...

Over the summer, Korea’s SK Telecom outlined its strategy to capitalize on the IoT opportunity. From a networking standpoint, SK Telecom has...

It’s amazing to think that Twitter recently turned ten years old. This milestone came on the heels of a rumored, CEO-level assessment [1] of...

Corporate activity in the M2M/IoT market continues to grow in line with the roughly 30% growth rate that many market analysts forecast for...