Strategy and Business Innovation for Connectivity and Digital Economy Markets

Two investment themes bookended 2023. In January, the European Union backed a $100m venture capital fund, managed by Momenta Partners. In De...

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

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

The turn of the year has triggered many people to reflect on what they were doing 10 years ago. With that in mind, I looked through my track...

IoT Analytics, the German market research firm, recently published a customer satisfaction assessment of IoT platforms [1]. It covers 50 ven...

Compared to previous years, the pace of corporate activity in the IoT arena has settled down. This is to be expected in a maturing market cy...

A few weeks ago, the UK mobile operator O2 decided to shut down it smart home business [1]. O2 stated that it had not seen "category-l...

Looking back over notable, M2M/IoT corporate initiatives in 2017, mobile network operators (MNOs) and technology vendors were the two most...

Last week, I attended ETSI's IoT Week, an annual event to explore the IoT standardization landscape and to see how industry and academic...

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 ...

I had the good fortune to attend IoT Week Korea 2015 in Seoul during the week of 26-30 October. This was a great opportunity to check in on...

Having worked on the topic of M2M value chain structures in 2012, a couple of relevant market developments caught my attention over the past...

This article was commissioned by Telit Communications PLC and appeared in telit2market magazine, February 2014 The IoT phenomenon has sup...

2013 as a whole was another year of strong corporate activity in the M2M market. A total of 147 events easily surpassed the 115 events that ...

France’s Orange has a long history in the M2M market and was one of the early pioneers in establishing an M2M competence centre, leveraging ...

Early in 2012, I completed a study for the GSM Association (GSMA) on the topic of new business models that would be linked to innovative, co...

Over the first half of 2013, there has been strong evidence that companies in the M2M market are continuing to implement a range of business...

Late last year, in the course of some project-related research, I took a look at the home security market in the context of 'smart-home...

Among the many announcements and presentations from Mobile World Congress 2013, one that caught my attention came from Matthew Key, the CEO ...

This note will be updated in light of new alliance announcements.  In July of 2012, seven mobile operators announced a cooperation agreem...