Strategy and Business Innovation for Connectivity and Digital Economy Markets

How much of the opportunity will mobile network operators capture?  The business opportunity to access mobile network capabilities via appli...

I delivered a presentation some weeks back at an online conference for the managed-services industry. My talk was about the implications of...

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...

How time flies! Over 10 years ago, I was part of a GSMA strategy team that looked at new growth markets for the mobile industry. Our report ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The motivation for this article comes from several recent and groundbreaking announcements relating to the commercialization of consumer dat...

While I often attend Mobile World Congress in Barcelona during February, this was my first experience of IoTSW Congress and seeing Barcelona...

Last year, I wrote a post about the landscape of standards development organizations, industry-alliances and company consortia [1]. Several ...

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...

Do mobile operators and M2M service providers have a role in the emerging IoT market? This is a hot topic in corporate boardrooms, industry ...

I have recently been consulting on the topic of IoT Platform strategy with a particular focus on the recently issued oneM2M standard. As par...

Over the past few weeks, there have been several industry conferences, magazine articles and webinars dealing with the IoT market opportunit...

A couple reports published in recent weeks have touched on the topic of the IoT developer community. The first one, from Vision Mobile [1], ...

The mobile industry and users of its services are very familiar with the concept of roaming. Roaming allows users to access mobile services ...