Strategy and Business Innovation for Connectivity and Digital Economy Markets

An important lesson from 2024’s IoT corporate initiatives is about an industry that is evolving to a post-connectivity world. This is due t...

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

At Mobile World Congress in February 2022, Vodafone launched a new Economy of Things (EoT) platform. It would allow businesses across multip...

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

I recently come across a couple of experienced industry analysts using some variation of the term “permission to play” when talking about wh...

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...

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

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

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...

My last post examined the direction that several MNOs are taking with their IoT strategies [1]. Applying these trends at an industry level, ...

Over the past few weeks, there have been several commentaries about IoT strategies for mobile network operators (MNOs), several of these exp...

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

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

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...

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...

Several news stories have circulated over the past few weeks in connection with the potential acquisition of Nokia’s mapping business, HERE....

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

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