Strategy and Business Innovation for Connectivity and Digital Economy Markets

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

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...

What are the more common justifications for smart city investments? Citizen-centred service needs, political priorities and a positive retur...

I recently attended the Smart Cities Connect conference in Kansas, MO. There, I moderated a panel on data marketplaces and collaborative app...

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

As new technologies become commonplace, there is a case for exploring new value creation opportunities in the realm of application ideas. Pu...

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 ...

The combined activities of the Industrial Internet Consortium and Industrie4.0 alliance, culminating in the much expanded IoT Solutions Worl...

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

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

Following several years of rapid growth, the 141 corporate initiatives in 2014 almost matched the 147 events that occurred in 2013 . In 2...

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

Over the past few years, technology suppliers and service providers have become increasingly optimistic about the market prospects for M2M. ...

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...

The topic of acquisitions in the M2M market has featured in several company announcements and several of my discussions with industry player...

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...

The topic of personal data has interested me for a number of years because it is at the heart of new approaches to marketing and service dev...

Companies offering services based on connected devices will increasingly have access to significant amounts of highly granular data about co...